Uploading photos

[Hal Taylor]

I know it's somewhere, but how does one upload photos to get two different file sizes, such that when you click on the picture an enlargement appears?

 

[Bill Boehme]

It depends where you want to upload the images. If you want to upload them to the gallery, then you simply upload the large version. If you are talking about having an images as a clickable link in the discussion forum, you first need to have an online photo gallery where the large and small size images are stored. The VB code for this is:

link to the url of the small image[/COLOR]][image]link to the url of the large image[/image]

Each of the links need to be the link to the image itself and not the page that contains the image.

 

[Bill Boehme]

Hopefully, to clarify things, you type the line exactly as shown except that the blue colored part is the actual link that begins with "http" and ends with ".jpg". In my case, I would reference my pbase account as the source of my online images.

 

[Joe Greiner]

It depends where you want to upload the images. If you want to upload them to the gallery, then you simply upload the large version. If you are talking about having an images as a clickable link in the discussion forum, you first need to have an online photo gallery where the large and small size images are stored. The VB code for this is:

link to the url of the small image[/COLOR]][image]link to the url of the large image[/image]

Each of the links need to be the link to the image itself and not the page that contains the image.

I don't think that's the best way to include images in a message. External links may disappear or be modified in the remote url (BTDT). Uploading directly from your computer places the image file, more or less permanently, within the forum database in your attachment list. A thumbnail will appear in the message, and clicking it will open in a full size page. For two different resolutions or sizes, I think you'd need two different images.

 

[Robert Manning]

Hal, if you are meaning the Forum Photo Galleries, then all you have to do, is upload a photo with more pixels and then it's automatic. i.e 1200 x 1200 pixels

 

[Bill Boehme]

I don't think that's the best way to include images in a message. External links may disappear or be modified in the remote url (BTDT). Uploading directly from your computer places the image file, more or less permanently, within the forum database in your attachment list. A thumbnail will appear in the message, and clicking it will open in a full size page. For two different resolutions or sizes, I think you'd need two different images.

I understand what you are saying, Joe, but since he explicitly asked for a way to have a clickable link to a larger image which may not necessarily be an image of one of his turnings in the gallery (which I also covered in my reply), I gave the general method for embedding an image rather than having an attached image. The size limit on attached images is pretty small. The link could also be made to apply to an attached image, but it would still require linking to an external site. That's just the reality of a site with limited budget for online storage. Having the image uploaded to this site is not necessarily an assurance that the image will have greater permanence. Some of my images from a few years ago on this forum disappeared when the software was changed from displaying full size images within a post to having a thumbnail image link.

 

[Steve Worcester]

If you are talking attaching an image to a message, you can go below the box you are typing the message into and there is a manage attachments button. Anything uploaded will get a thumbnail in the message and when clicked on will show the image.

If in the galleries, as stated, upload the larger image and the vBulletin software manages thumbnails, medium and full size.

 

[Hal Taylor]

Thanks guys. I was referring to the galleries - sorry for that confusion.