Recently opened a PB account. Was going to start using it but won't now. Some people can screw up any and all things good.
God's Best & Happy Rails to You!
Bing (RIPRR The Route of the Buzzards)
The future: Dead Rail Society
Lone Wolf and Santa Fe That is a really nice turntable. I want to make one like it.
That is a really nice turntable. I want to make one like it.
Send me a PM and I'll send you (and anyone else who wants one) a PDF on how I built it
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Darth Santa Fe Well, Photobucket decided to permanently lock me out from embedding photos on forums like this one unless I'm willing to pay them $100 annually. Of course, I don't post enough photos to pay anywhere close to that (in 12 years, I've only used 9% of my upload limit!!), so I think I'll just delete my account and transfer everything to a different website. They've become a bloated mess anyway. Who would you all recommend?
Well, Photobucket decided to permanently lock me out from embedding photos on forums like this one unless I'm willing to pay them $100 annually. Of course, I don't post enough photos to pay anywhere close to that (in 12 years, I've only used 9% of my upload limit!!), so I think I'll just delete my account and transfer everything to a different website. They've become a bloated mess anyway. Who would you all recommend?
Darth
I dumped the bucket a long time ago for a majority of photos. I use by blog to post then link to forums.
"Google Photos" is an option for you.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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My Wife, bless her heart, has spared me this grief----she dropped my electronic camera into a salt water river while working the dogs. Amazing how much damage two AAA batteries will do to diodes and things---I no longer worry about posting photos to anything, anywhere. herrinchoker
New try:
Nice boxcar indeed.
Thanks again Henry.
The only problem is that those photos can be seen by anyone that have a Imgur account. But I can do with it.
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Guys, for what it's worth....
I use trainboard.com No problems, no glitches, EASY to use, very fast.
I tried PB. I could Never get it to work. Someone on this forum suggested trainboard.com NO Problems! Love it!
My answer was incomplete. Right click on the pic. Select copy link location. The link is copied to the Windows clipboard. I'm not sure there is a program that you can click on to see what that is but trust that it is there.
When you get to this forum and click on the picture icon, the thing that is to the right of the chain link and contains a mountain, a window opens. You cursor should already be on the Source window. Hit Control button and V at the same time and the link should appear in that box.
Don't know about an Ipad. I used to be much more computer savey. I had an Apple 2 and build several computers. Just never got into tablets. Love my laptop though.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Thank you Henry BUT how do you that on an iPad? I could do that easily with Photobucket despite those annoying adds. I just don't see how to do this with Imgur.
Guy PapillonNot being able to use Photobucket anymore to share photos on these forums, I will try here with Imgur I just joined a few minutes ago. Edit: Didn't work. New try, https://imgur.com/gallery/fBdDl Édit: I can accses the image but it didn't appear in the post. What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Didn't work.
New try,
https://imgur.com/gallery/fBdDl
Édit: I can accses the image but it didn't appear in the post.
What am I doing wrong?
It's not my rule but the link has to end in a picture format extension like .jpg
Right click on your picture and a menu should open. Pick Copy Image Location. And Wala the link would be https://i.imgur.com/HFZsKQF.jpg
Edit for those that don't understand copy and paste in windows. The above copy command puts the address for the photo in the windows "clipboard" A short term memory place. When you click the photo icon in above where you are writing your post (it looks like a mountain with a sun or moon) you need to copy the link in the Source box that will open. Hitting the control button and the V button at the same time does the copying for you.
Try again.
Just a test...........
Take Care!
Frank
Well if you can see the following picture its from Facebook
Not being able to use Photobucket anymore to share photos on these forums, I will try here with Imgur I just joined a few minutes ago.
PB has gotten so slow this is really no loss. I've spent the better part of an hour trying to just sign in so I can upload some pictures to WPF. I have some photos on their site that I lost on my PC that I need to recover but after that they will be history.
I opened an account with railimages.com and used them last week to post a photo. I'm still trying to work through some issues with their site as well but this might be my primary means of posting photos in the future.
Finally deleted all my photos and PB will shut my page down soon.
I gave up You Tube for posting about three years ago. Google started making it difficult to navigate.
I iwll check out the site mentioned.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
gmpullmanG Payne and Bear's photos just got covered with the "100% speedometer" AGAIN at the "Show Me Something" thread!!??
I got the notice this morning (Fri 6-30), and my links are blocked (see below). I have been getting frustrated with uncreasing PB popups over the past couple weeks. Seems to be about 6 or 8 getting in the way.
No one has mentioned UTube as a photo host. Any feedback on that, or are they going the way of PB?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
In another model railroad forum, you do not need a photo hosting web site such as Photo Bucket and others. That forum allows members to upload into the forum directly from their computers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I have to agree with bigdaddy and nittanylion. Imgur is the way to go. It's free, user-friendly and I don't have any problems.
I will probably delete my account. I barely used it. Two pages with 0% storage used. All the photos I have are stored on a USB drive (memory stick) on the computer.
I was hoping to share railroad pictures with the community but I haven't really started.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
RR_MelI couldn’t figure out how to turn off Google Photo Backup (Sync) so that is a No Go for me. Every picture in your Picture directory is auto-uploaded to Google Photo.
I did not find Google user friendly at all.
Facebook requires a membership and as soon as you start following friends and family, you find out that their political views are astonishing.
Amazon, easy to use but I don't see that the share link is compatible with the MR Forum rules, i.e., it does not end in .jpg or other picture format extension. Amazon already knows enough about me anyway.
Just go with imgur. It was specifically designed for hosting images to be used on third party sites.
trainnut1250 Hmmmm.... Here is a photo from the bucket, from my free account - it seems to work. I use the insert image button and use the direct image link. Lets see if the image comes through when I submit the post. I am not crazy about the bucket as the pop ups make the site almost unusable - but then again posting to the forum always takes time regardless of issues with PB... Guy
Hmmmm.... Here is a photo from the bucket, from my free account - it seems to work.
I use the insert image button and use the direct image link. Lets see if the image comes through when I submit the post.
I am not crazy about the bucket as the pop ups make the site almost unusable - but then again posting to the forum always takes time regardless of issues with PB...
That is a really nice turntable. I want to make one like it. With Photobucket I can not save any pictures like this one because the files are always corrupt when I try to view them. Instead I have to Print Screen and then paste into Photoshop.
Darth Santa FeWow, so it's actually $400 per year to embed photos?
You would be far beter off just getting your own dot com and have it on a cheap server, then you can do whatever you want with your pictures.
https://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/ultimate-cheap-web-hosting-guide/
Scroll all the way down and look for a link to Host Metro. I use them for some websites I manage. http://www.hostmetro.com/
Byron,
That´s what I did, but PB won´t permit that either, unless you pay $400 a year! I doubt that they will generate a lot of revenue out of this scam.
I have deleted my PB account today, knowing that all prevous posts with my pictures will be useless now.
I don't use PB, but if linked images are still permitted by PB, it may be possible to use the MR Forum "Insert Image" function instead of embedding images. (That's the little icon that looks like a mountain range with a rising moon.)
Failing that, I have had good luck with Trainboard's Railimages.
Unfortunately, Facebook and Google images (among others) may not show up here if the viewer is not logged-in to those services.
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CGW121 That is why I made a facebook page. I can post there for free and link to it easily. It works for me.
That is why I made a facebook page. I can post there for free and link to it easily. It works for me.
May I second Paul´s request for a recommendation?
I am in the process of looking for another free image hosting site, which is foolproof.