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#21

thanx alot man…thats was so nice of u.PEACE

#22

thx for this little tutorial :thumbsup:
but could I host my pictures also on www.cghost.de ??
EDIT: or www.ImageShack.us

greetz
Alonzo

#23

geenooamee,

No prob! :slight_smile:

Alonzo,

Whatever works for you! :slight_smile: I don’t know anything about www.cghost.de, but lots of people use ImageShack. Feel free to use whichever.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#24

Hi Rebccak,

I’m having problems with images displaying correctly when i post my work here. Here’s what i mean - http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=304796&highlight=viking

My images are all orignally 1200 x 900 pixels but for some reason when i uploaded it to photobucket, the images are only 359 x 252 :shrug: After following the thread on how to post images, the images turned out to have shrunk in size. Also, photobucket states that images larger than 512KB are automatically resized; does this has anything to with the images not displaying propoerly?

I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction as to how i can get images shown in their actual sizes.

Julian

#25

Julian,

Yep, Photobucket will actually do funny things to your images if they are over 1MB ~ I’ve never had one of mine resized, but maybe if the image is too large it will do that ~ the thing to do is to just make a copy of your original image (you don’t want to resize that) and save for web through Photoshop ~ Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Save ~ or File > Save for Web ~ if you reduce the percentage of image quality, you will see that in the lower left corner of the save for web dialogue box that the file size is correspondingly reduced.

Also, make sure that you have in your User Profile settings > the display images box checked.

Another thing is that programs like ZoneAlarm often block you from seeing certain images. If you have that, you may have to temporarily shut it off in order to see all images properly.

Hope that helps. If not, let me know. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#26

Rebeccak, thx for the advice!

Yeah, sometimes photobucket does weird stuff. Anyway, i’ve got the image problem
sorted out. For some strange reason (or is it me…), photobucket didn’t refresh/update the
new images i uploaded and instead displayed the old images that i’ve deleted from the hard
drive.
I’ve checked my user settings, saved for web in photoshop and all’s good. :bounce:

Thanks again!

#27

juln,

No problem. :slight_smile:

One thing that I’ve found with Photobucket ~ if you upload an image, then delete the image, and upload a new version of that image with the same name, the old image will be retained. What I do now is to save a version of the new image with a different name ~ say the first image was whatever.jpg, I call the new one whatever_1.jpg and then upload it to photobucket BEFORE deleting whatever.jpg. I don’t have any problems this way, but if I don’t do it this way, I always get the old image.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#28

um…this isn’t working for me, but it’s worked before

#29

mr.loco,

I’m sorry, but what is not working? Photobucket, or are my images not displaying? :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#30

The pictures are not popping up, it just shows the photobucket link, I guess it would be best if you just see whats happening here

Cheers!

#31

Ah, okay, that is because you have to post the URL of your image into the small yellow mountain / sun icon in the EDIT POST text editor.

Try that and let me know if it works.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebecca

#32

Ah, I figured it out. It seems that the insert image script is broken, you have to ise the tags instead.

#33

Cool. :wink: Glad it got worked out. :slight_smile:

#34

Ok, sorry if this is obvious but…
You lost me on the “use photobucket” deal. I’m guessing that is a way for basic users to be able to represent more than the five images that can be posted to their individual gallery yes?
So if I decided to upgrade to a full CGS membership I wouldn’t have to jump through the hoops? Because then I could post unlimited directly here.

<—obviously new but mamanged to post a pic to my gallery…or portfolio…whichever it is…that distinction is still a wee bit unclear too. :slight_smile:

#35

Originally posted by Claymor: Ok, sorry if this is obvious but…
You lost me on the “use photobucket” deal. I’m guessing that is a way for basic users to be able to represent more than the five images that can be posted to their individual gallery yes?

Hi there, no worries. :slight_smile: Photobucket is an image host which I recommend to be used for CGTalk posting ~ you can use it to host images for CGPortfolio images, too, but only for extra images which you would want to post beneath your main image which you have uploaded to your CGPortfolio Gallery as closeups, or in your blog. For example, in my blog, I have posted images that I have hosted through Photobucket:

http://rebeccak.cgsociety.org/blog/

To post images in my blog, I have to use the tags and paste the Photobucket URL of my image in between.

But in my Gallery, all of the images are uploaded directly through CGPortfolio from my computer:

http://rebeccak.cgsociety.org/gallery/

As a CGSociety member, I can upload an unlimited number of images, either directly from my computer, or hosted by an image host such as Photobucket. A free CGTalk member can upload 5 images ~ I don’t believe you would be able to post images in your Gallery in any other way than by uploading them directly from your machine to CGPortfolio. If you want to show a lot of work, then it becomes worth it to upgrade to a paid CGSociety membership. It’s definitely a great time to do so, due to CGPortfolio. :slight_smile:

So if I decided to upgrade to a full CGS membership I wouldn’t have to jump through the hoops? Because then I could post unlimited directly here.

Right. But don’t confuse CGPortfolio with just the posting that you do on the main forums here. CGPortfolio is a website of it’s own, with it’s own rules. On CGTalk Forums, you can host and post as many images as you wish ~ using Photobucket or other image host service. You can also add images as attachments, but it’s much better to host images as then people do not have to click on your image to see it. Images which are just plainly visible because they have been image hosted will receive much more attention.

<—obviously new but mamanged to post a pic to my gallery…or portfolio…whichever it is…that distinction is still a wee bit unclear too. :slight_smile:

Ah, okay, I’ll check it out. :slight_smile:

Any more questions, please feel free to let me know. You should also activate your Private Message system through your User Control Panel at the top of the screen. That way, people through the site can communicate with you.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#36

Hi and thanks for the image hosting tutorial!
I have a question though.
Do you know how it is possible to post large images?Everytime i tried to post something(at other sites,sorry)photobucket automatically resized it…All the files that i upload to photobucket are 72dpi.So why is that happening??
Thanks in advance.

#37

Polonoid,

Photobucket will automatically resize any image that is over 1 MB in size. JPG images that are saved for web should usually be fairly small ~ typically when posting to web forums, you want your images to be no greater than 800 pixels wide anyway, so people don’t have to scroll ~ it sounds as though you are trying to post huge images. Try reducing your image to 800 pixels wide at 72 dpi, and then saving your image for web, and you should be fine.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#38

Oh,i see.
Thanks!

#39

No problem. :slight_smile:

#40

Hi ppl, photobucket is all nice and all, but it might be an idea to check out THIS link instead.
This site (ImageShack) is faster, no resizing, more options and you DONT have to REGISTER.

I also made a guide for uploading/downloading files like .rar and .3dm this site is also free, fast and dont need you do register. There are tons of adds, and the design sucks, but the service provided is fantastic, check it out HERE.

peace =)