Embeding images in forum post's - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Kevin.D
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2013, 07:26:02 pm
content: Hi . I noticed on some peoples posts they manage to embed full size images in the middle of some long text, and it's full size without even having to click on it. ( so it's not a thumbnail image or hyperlink to some external hosted image or something ) .How do they do that . ?

author: armandas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2013, 07:33:24 pm
content: You submit your post with attached images and then edit the post to embed those images.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2013, 07:37:42 pm
content: Or just host them externally. Then use  to embed.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2013, 07:42:34 pm
content: Quote from: armandas on April 20, 2013, 07:33:24 pmThe whole point of the thumbnails for uploaded images is to avoid wasting server (and your) bandwidth downloading images unless you elect to look at them.If you are going to embed images in posts find your own hosting for them.

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 04:27:04 am
content: I've always used imgur.com. There is a browser extension for Chrome that makes it very easy - you can right-click any image you see in any page and re-host it under your imgur account. Or you can upload files directly. Or, you can even right-click any web page and capture an area of the page, and upload it to imgur all in one shot. Like this:Once your image is hosted somewhere, you can imbed it in a post using the  tag. You can optionally set the width to a specific value too using [img width=250] for example.I generally self-host images this way so that they don't hurt the forum operator's bandwidth. When you use attachments, they get transferred up to the forum server and then back down again for every page view, and they also get stored on disk. When self hosted, none of that traffic goes to the forum server.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 05:22:58 am
content: Quote from: MacAttak on April 21, 2013, 04:27:04 amIt's not bandwidth I have to worry about, I have a ton of that. It's disk space I have to worry about. More disk space impacts upon my automated backup solution and the cost for that.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 09:02:45 am
content: I have tended to use Flickr and then use the BBCode option to embed them. Gives a nice size image and allows you to just click to go full size.

author: Bloch
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 09:10:02 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on April 21, 2013, 05:22:58 amI can see that the cost problem.But it is also so frustrating then looking in an old thread and the "very" important pic is a dead link.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 10:31:15 am
content: Just ask, often somebody here has saved the pic, or look it up in the Chocolate Factory cache.

author: Bloch
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 11:24:15 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on April 21, 2013, 10:31:15 amThank you Sean so much for you help. Next time some pictures are missing on a forum i am reading will i write to you. It is nice to know that it is only me that did have that problem.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 11:58:08 am
content: It may help, but how many links are still pointed at a Geocities site that has been pulled and killed by Yahoo! yahoos.

author: Bloch
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 01:23:17 pm
content: That do you mean ? If some part of internet is/was broken. Then it is a good idear to break the working forums. I hope i am misunderstanding you

author: Kevin.D
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 01:58:59 pm
content: I agree with you bloch . It's frustrating to find an old post in a search of some forum to find half the important linked images have dissapeared because some external hosting site has dissapeared .I read some pic related forum's and they encourage upload of images to be hosted with the post .That way they can insure the full post's will be avialable in perpetuity ,and not until some ext unrelated pic hosting site decides . If I owned a forum I think I to would want the whole post to be kept on the forum server . I dont know what Dave has available but we are not talking moving image size here , just still images . What are they ? 1 Megabyte an image ,so a 1TB HDD can host 1 million images ,thats an awfull lot of post's .I think Dave might prefer to keep the full post on his server .

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 02:16:47 pm
content: Quote from: kevotronic on April 21, 2013, 01:58:59 pmThat's exactly what happened to me on a forum. I had a long thread with many pics externally hosted. The pic hosting site was sold and they changed policies, and all my pics were eventually gone. But by that time the posts I had made couldn't be edited to replace the links with new ones. But even if they could have been edited, the task would have been enormous and I probably wouldn't have had the time to fix 100 posts with external picture links.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2013, 06:04:04 pm
content: Just wait till the hosting company changed their policy to turn your images into nasty porn ads.Yeah, I'm the one those nazis around here that anti hosting image at external site.@Kevotronic, hit it here ->https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/(ask)how-to-embed-the-'uploadedattached'-pic-in-the-middle-of-posting/msg64623/#msg64623, made this thread while ago.Quote from: EEVblog on April 21, 2013, 05:22:58 amDave, you should consider to limit image size for the forum's image attachment, cause there are many are just too lazy to do some cropping or resizing before uploading.

author: Kevin.D
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 11:23:37 am
content: This is just a test post to embed image by posting image as an attachment then editing post to paste url withthe img tag to the front and back of the url . seems to be working

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 05:19:07 pm
content: Is it just me or are there others who find that the exact spot to click on an image to view it in a larger size varies from picture to picture, on some pictures I have given up trying to find the spot as sometimes it is very small and I have to be very precise on the exact spot a mm one way or the other and it wont work.

author: kfitch42
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 05:45:59 pm
content: Quote from: G7PSK on April 22, 2013, 05:19:07 pmI think its just you. But, I have found that sometimes it takes a while for the enlarged version to show up. And, there is no feedback that the enlargement will happen. So, next time you think you clicked on the wrong spot. Twiddle your thumbs for 30 seconds. It might be that every other attempted click is re-shrinking the pic. So, the real criteria is your odd-numbered click after the enlarged picture has finished downloading.

author: ve7xen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 06:58:04 pm
content: - It'd be nice if it were easier to post an image directly to the post from the attachments. Other forum software often offers a crafted link you can copy/past beside the upload box or a button to insert the img tag. Definitely +1 this request.- My biggest beef with images on this forum is that they tend to be either too large or too small The thumbnails are tiny and must be resized, but when expanded are usually too wide to fit in the content div and a scroll bar appears. This wouldn't be so bad, but the scroll bar is for the entire post content, so it always appears at the very bottom of the post creating a whole bunch of scrolling. I'd prefer some javascript clamping the size of expanded thumbnails to the width of the content div. If I really want the full resolution image I'll open it in a separate tab.