Posting pictures to the Forum using Flickr

[Paul]

BobM very kindly did this short tutorial on using Flickr, Photo bucket isn't playing ball any more so i suggest using this from now on. Ive got the app on my phone to use and its free and easy to sign up for

Courtesy of BobM

Here is a quick 1, 2, 3 on my Flickr workflow.

I take most of my pictures with an iPhone. These are easily upload directly from the iOS Photos app using the "Share" button. I think this comes with iOS, but you may need to install the free Flickr app. When you upload, by default, your photos end up in two places on your Flickr account, your Camera Roll and your Photostream. There is also an option to add it to a new or existing Album. Multiple photos can be uploaded at once.

If your images are on your computer, I think you can upload using the Flickr website. Or, in my case, directly from Photos on MacOS; Flickr support is builtin to Photos via its "Share" menu item. Select one or more photo's and use either "File > Share > Flickr" from the application menu or "Share > Flickr" from the popup menu (right-click or control-click). These also go to your Flickr Camera Roll and Photostream and there is an option to add to a new or existing album.

Once uploaded I go to my desktop browser, in my case Safari on MacOS, but it works the same on Windows as I occasionally post from my work machine. There you locate you image, click on it and you'll find a sharing button in the lower right. That brings up a form with "Share", "Embed", "Email" and "BBCode". Select "BBCode". There is then a drop down to select the image size, I use "Medium" which appears to be pretty standard. There is also a text box containing all the "code" you need to copy/paste into your post. Make sure you select ALL the text. It should look like this:

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[url=https://flic.kr/p/V1wdUM][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4278/34792805493_54c419f66b_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/V1wdUM]Friday June 16 Live Show Update[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/147400048@N06/]Bob Mortensen[/url], on Flickr

After pasting I always make one change, I insert a return after:

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[/img][/url]

and before:

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[url=https:...]

so that it now looks like:

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[url=https://flic.kr/p/V1wdUM][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4278/34792805493_54c419f66b_c.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/V1wdUM]Friday June 16 Live Show Update[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/147400048@N06/]Bob Mortensen[/url], on Flickr

Here is what you get from that:


Friday June 16 Live Show Update by Bob Mortensen, on Flickr

Hmmm... I guess that kind of turned into a full fledged tutorial! I hope this helps someone!

Keep on modeling and posting!


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Thanks you Bob

[GuyMac]

If I may make it a bit easier...


The part in the code between the "image" tags

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 [img] until [/img] 

is the part of the link that points to your picture.

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[img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4278/34792805493_54c419f66b_c.jpg[/img]

Is enough. This is the part that redirects to the picture

The

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[url=https://flic.kr/p/V1wdUM]

part isn't really necessary.

You'll get this result...



if this is an inappropriate 'reply' feel free to remove it
Nice tutorial though Bob

[Matthaus]

Is there any other way to post photos as I just cannot get this Flickr thing?!

[Paul]

There are other photo hosting sites, have a look on google, try not to use the upload function on the forum though as it saps the forums bandwidth

[StuartClark]

Flickr is reducing what their free service offers. 1000 pic limit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/1805 ... FNHXcGlxLo

[Twokidsnosleep]

Flickr is reducing what their free service offers. 1000 pic limit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/1805 ... FNHXcGlxLo

typical, thanks for the heads up

[ElCapitan]

Flickr is reducing what their free service offers. 1000 pic limit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/1805 ... FNHXcGlxLo

typical, thanks for the heads up

Typical indeed. Knew this would happen! $50 per year doesn't seem too steep though.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Flickr is reducing what their free service offers. 1000 pic limit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/1805 ... FNHXcGlxLo

typical, thanks for the heads up

Typical indeed. Knew this would happen! $50 per year doesn't seem too steep though.

Ya I will probable just do that subscription
It bugs me as it wont help with the participation in our forum as others won't pay that and just use Facebook instead

[ElCapitan]

typical, thanks for the heads up

Typical indeed. Knew this would happen! $50 per year doesn't seem too steep though.

Ya I will probable just do that subscription
It bugs me as it wont help with the participation in our forum as others won't pay that and just use Facebook instead

It's a real shame, but you're probably right

[Paul]

Just use multiple accounts when they get full

[Atgni]

i stopped using flickr last year when they sold it to the american pay site (i forget the name now?) plus i stay clear of facebook, ha making rods for my own back! i shall try 500px once i have something to post

[Whiterook]

Over at my website, we had the same issue with “the bucket”. Folks had issues with some of the other popular alternatives, and their limits. The one that rose to the top as the easiest and no limits was...
https://postimg.cc

Create an account, and you can then create image folders to store different subjects, which is pretty easy to upload to. When you want to export a pic to the forum of choice, go in your My I ages, find the file folder with the images, and click the share button (little symbol with the three dots connected) and click the Hotlinks for Forums selection.... which copies the link to your clipboard, and paste in the forum post of choice, you get something like this....



This saves space of your forum server too, I would imagine