How to post photos on the forum - A plea to moderators

[rjb]

You can always post 2 consecutive posts with 5 pics attached in each.

[thirdcrank]

You can always post 2 consecutive posts with 5 pics attached in each. :wink:

That's what I was doing and would have continued to do had not MickF shown that it was possible to attach more. Even then, it was only this request for a set of instructions that had me posting.

It has occurred to me that the forum rules ban multiple small ads by an individual member. While five images should be plenty for eg one bike, that might not be enough several items.

[De Sisti]

That seems a bit long winded, I just click on Attachments, then Add Files, then browse in the window that opens.

Good call. I learnt how to upload pictures on a different forum, so naturally used the same method on this site. The other forum hasn't got this 'quick-upload' facility.

[Biospace]

It should only take a few seconds, simply open the folder a picture is in alongside the forum page, click "POST A REPLY" button then click and drag the image into the reply box. It's as easy as that. If it doesn't work, perhaps the picture is too large a file or the wrong type. I'm not sure what this forum's parameters are, they've always worked for me.

Here's a GIF of me doing exactly that... (click to play)

For a larger screen, smoother play and sharper view, the actual vid can be downloaded here, https://app.box.com/s/37z2izdfh0euq31jhcvygu62o2lurjiq

[simonineaston]

It's as easy as that.

I'd love to agree, however, there is more to it than that... what happens next will depend on the properties of the image file and then, how it appears in the post may not be to the liking of either reader or poster. For example, some images nudge images already uploaded off the post (as already pointed out), or else will appear in the post rotated, often not showing as the poster intended.
The forum software adapts native camera image files on upload to use as a thumbnail in the post, in order to cope with them often being too big to comfortably display eg itro 4k x 3k pixels or larger. So ideally the poster should resize them before uploading to say 1024 x 1024 - a size that will be plenty big enough to examine detail, once the thumbnail has been clicked to launch the display of the original file.
Thus we've quickly gone from simple to complicated in a matter of a few seconds!

resize to common preset

[Biospace]

It's as easy as that.

I'd love to agree, however...
...
Thus we've quickly gone from simple to complicated in a matter of a few seconds!Screenshot 2023-02-13 at 17.27.44.png

Doubtless an entire dissertation could be written on the posting of images to an internet forum, but several of the posts on the first page suggest this isn't what's needed for some who struggle with the basics or use time-consuming, round-about ways of achieving the same thing. Hence my post demonstrating how straightforwards and easy it should be, with caveats about file types and sizes should it not.

"So ideally the poster should resize them before uploading" - for sure, explanation and demonstration ought to be offered in a clear way for many different possibilities, but the most easy and simple way of posting an image should given at or near the top of a help page.

There is still a degree of fear for some in navigating their computer and posting online, the best way to help people into something beyond the basics is to make sure they can first work the basics easily and without a struggle.

[thirdcrank]

FWIW, the huge improvement with the change to what we have was that the forum software handled the re-sizing. A huge leap forward for numpties like me

[Biospace]

It should only take a few seconds, simply open the folder a picture is in alongside the forum page, click "POST A REPLY" button then click and drag the image into the reply box. It's as easy as that. If it doesn't work, perhaps the picture is too large a file or the wrong type. I'm not sure what this forum's parameters are, they've always worked for me.

Here's a GIF of me doing exactly that... (click to play)

For a larger screen, smoother play and sharper view, the actual vid can be downloaded here, https://app.box.com/s/37z2izdfh0euq31jhcvygu62o2lurjiq

Something I would draw attention to is that dragging an image into the POST A REPLY box doesn't introduce the picture into the reply box, or even a line of text referencing it. It appears that nothing has happened, when it has. I think this is worth drawing attention to, my initial reaction was that it hadn't worked. Submitting the reply will see it appear, as will clicking the Attachments tab below and to the left of the reply box.

As others have described, this is the alternative way of adding files - clicking the "Add Files" button accesses your folders, from which to choose the image.

[Mick F]

Simple.

Just drag and drop.
If on a phone, select the photo and use the "Attachments" tab below this window and "Place Inline" where you want it.

[Mick F]

Sorry, Just drag and drop, but you still have to use the "Place Inline" thing.

[gaz]

Drag and drop works very nicely, still a limit of five pics per post for us mortals.

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[Mick F]

Drag and drop works very nicely, still a limit of five pics per post for us mortals.

How odd?

Why do I as a mere Spambuster, have the ability to post as many photos as I want?
I don't have full mod privileges at all .............. not that I want them either.

[gregoryoftours]

Maybe the seeming 5 limit is something to do with max attached file size allowance? All of my photos are as they got taken, so maybe they get reduced to the maximum permitted size, which gives you 5 before you run out of allowance per post?

[gaz]

Maybe the seeming 5 limit is something to do with max attached file size allowance?

Seemingly not.

One of the images I uploaded above is 4kb, I can't put it into a post more than five times. If I stop at five copies and take one out, the forum will happily accept a 5.6mb file in its place.

Rules is rules .

[Biospace]

5 is the limit for me, no matter what I try. No need whatsoever to click "Place inline" unless you wish to arrange the pics in an order other than the one you dragged them into the box, or arrange them around text. When you don't, the heading ATTACHMENTS appears above them.