OK, newbie here testing adding a photo. This was a $3.00 (AUD!) find in a charity shop. We call them Op Shops here down under. Not sure what it was, but it looked like some sort of shaving bowl, so I took a gamble. Works great! Like the undercut recess half way down, stops the lather from escaping too fast! Is there a best size for uploading pics? Why did my pic land up at the top of the post? Hmm... more reading... Also: might I ask, which is preferred on this forum: Thumbnail or Full Image? Thanks in advance! Chris Edited: Image removed
@ChrisB Nice! This site will tell you when the pic is too large. I always have to shrink mine. Pic is at the top for one of two reasons: 1) You posted the pic before you started typing B) That's where your cursor was when you loaded the file Thumbnail or full, your choice. Hope this helps.
Ok thank you! I will watch that cursor then. Will have to also try embedding a link to an online hosted site, should save some space here.
I always size my SOTD photos down to a width of 1024 pixels. That is plenty big for any image here. Larger image sizes load more slowly, especially on a phone.
Ahh that explains it, I have noticed some images take a while to load even on a PC with good internet. I will keep your tip of 1024 wide in mind. (Mind you some of pictures here are worth waiting for to download, thinking of some shots I have seen in the Shaving den threads, so sometimes bigger is better!)
another image test Easy enough to insert a link to a picture hosted somewhere else, but it looks clumsy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lJ20IP4zoxoRhaPw_U-rE5oZYhtDrLt/view?usp=sharing (link now dead) How to name the link? and make it clickable, something like this. NewImage what does image with the red cross on it mean? I see this quite often in posts and cannot access the image.
Lots of image hosting give problems. Also internal to forums. I suggest www.imgur.com or use other forum that has it.
Yes, hosting the images off the forum saves storage space, but I don't like imgur, too much click bait there. I have figured out how to do what I want, am posting this here for a reminder. First, copy the link from wherever your images are hosted Second, type some text...eg "TestImagehere" see below. Then highlight/select the text Then click the Link button here: and paste the link...and click insert... Then the text colour changes to red to show it is an active link. TestImageHere should work fine.
Hi Thorsten, hmm, dunno, I just use my PC, don't have the iPad Just to summarize 1. I drag the image from my Desktop to this window, it says something like drop file here if it's too large it tells me so. After that I choose Thumbnail or full image. 2. Let my try your way: Upload a file, navigate to image, double click it, and it adds it to the bottom like so, And then choose Thumbnail or Full image So both ways work for my PC Hopefully another iPad user can help out, because we do like your pics
Hi my Friend, it did not work until now on the iPad, but i managed to find a way to get my pics smaller. I have an app which can make the whole size of the picture smaller, so this seems to be (and do) the trick. But thank you for trying to help me out. Greetings Thorsten
Hello again Thorsten, Glad you got it sorted, not familiar with the iPad or its apps, but happy you are up and running again.
