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Photobucket Users---Help, Please

DianaT - 8-5-2010 at 07:30 AM

For the last images I posted, I used Image Shack which was more difficult and slower, but

I cannot seem to get photobucket to work down here. In the states, photobucket opens up to the old view and no problem.

But here, I keep getting a NEW VIEW and when I try to use it by hitting the button for upload to a certain album---nothing.

Once I was able to get it to return to the OLD VIEW, but I do not remember how I did that.

Help???

[Edited on 8-5-2010 by DianaT]

David K - 8-5-2010 at 07:34 AM

Working the same as always for me...

I just emailed these instructions to a new Nomad on how to use it:

Okay... the easiest way to post photos on Nomad is to:

1) Set up an account on Photobucket.com (it's free) to store duplicates of your photos, and resize them for message board posting).

2) Once on photobucket, pick the 'more options', where you click to upload images off your PC and pick a REDUCED size:



More Upload Options
Resize my images to:
Tiny ( 100 x 75 ) 1280 x 960
Small ( 160 x 120 ) 1600 x 1200
Medium ( 320 x 240 ) 2048 x 1536
*Large ( 640 x 480 ) 2592 x 1944
15" screen ( 800 x 600 ) 3648 x 2736
17" screen ( 1024 x 768 ) 4000 x 3000
1 megabyte file size
2 megabyte file size






As you can see, I pick 'Large', so the photos are not sooo big on Nomad. I have also used '15" screen' as a max. size for most detail, like on maps. The standard upload size (if you don't pre-pick one) is 1 meg. and that stretches the forum pages wide and is over the 800 x 600 pixel size limit request.

3) Pick photos to upload to photobucket.com from your PC.

4) Now, at each of your photos on photobucket are links for sharing that photo. You want to choose this one:

IMG for bulletin boards & forums
Just copy the URL given for the photo, with your mouse (copy, paste).
Here is one: [IMG]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc212/DavidKier/IMG00024.jpg [/IMG] (space added so you can see text... no space and you would see the photo)

Any photo can be shown on Nomad if [IMG] is before the URL (a URL is a 'link' that starts with http://) for that photo and [/IMG] is after (no spaces).

5) Paste that entire link on Nomad in the area where you type a post... You can post several photos, put captions or text below or between them, or just photos (I double space the links to leave a bit of space between them.

That's it!

Photos can be posted onto Nomad (using the Browse button) directly from your PC's files only if the photo is UNDER 50 kb in size. Before Photobucket, I would duplicate any photo I wanted to show on Nomad and reduce the size from the original... took some time!

David

Ken Bondy - 8-5-2010 at 07:36 AM

Diane
I use Photobucket all the time and it seems to be functional. I just logged on and it was working. This may sound trivial, but make sure you are logged in and then go to "My Home". I agree, they have made several changes to their home page recently but everything seems to be OK here. You might consider Flickr, IMHO it is the easiest of all the image storing sites to use. It has a very nice uploader program and it is easy to copy and paste the photo links. ++Ken++

DianaT - 8-5-2010 at 07:47 AM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Diane
I use Photobucket all the time and it seems to be functional. I just logged on and it was working. This may sound trivial, but make sure you are logged in and then go to "My Home". I agree, they have made several changes to their home page recently but everything seems to be OK here. You might consider Flickr, IMHO it is the easiest of all the image storing sites to use. It has a very nice uploader program and it is easy to copy and paste the photo links. ++Ken++



Thanks Ken, I have been using Photobucket for a very long time, and actually I sometimes think it does not do the image any good. I especially do like their resizing---I do that first.

But it is strange---I just brought it up again and the view is now close to the old view and usable, but for a while the view I was getting was really strange and VERY different and did not change with my home, or after signing in.

I will give flicker a try.

Diane

Russ - 8-5-2010 at 07:56 AM

Diane, Have you gone pro? Untill I paid for their service I had problems. I had reached my free limit and it acted weird before it told I had.

b1 - 8-5-2010 at 07:20 PM

David K, thanks so much for your post on how to get photos from a (my) pc to photobucket to Nomads. Your instructions were clear enough that even I was able to accomplish the task. Thanks again, b1

David K - 8-5-2010 at 07:23 PM

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Originally posted by b1
David K, thanks so much for your post on how to get photos from a (my) pc to photobucket to Nomads. Your instructions were clear enough that even I was able to accomplish the task. Thanks again, b1


You are welcome!!!

I am looking forward to reading (and seeing) more from you... welcome to Nomad!

DianaT - 8-5-2010 at 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by Russ
Diane, Have you gone pro? Untill I paid for their service I had problems. I had reached my free limit and it acted weird before it told I had.


No, but if I decide to pay, I will probably use a different hosting service, maybe snug mug. Photobucket can mess up pix at times.

BTW---I opened photobucket a few more times and some times the strange page opens and sometimes it doesn't.

Thanks.

Diane

bajamigo - 8-5-2010 at 08:30 PM

Diane, try Webshots. Easy to use and lots of flexibility.

DianaT - 8-5-2010 at 09:19 PM

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Originally posted by bajamigo
Diane, try Webshots. Easy to use and lots of flexibility.


Thanks---have not thought about them in a while, but I do have a number of pics on Webshots from a few years ago. It seems to me, if this old brain remembers right, that I changed to photobucket because I could not post photos in a forum from webshots, but I imagine that has changed by now.

I will check it out