Inky T O D - Ink Review Series - Next - Uploading Your Images

[amberleadavis]

In the last few weeks, I've been asked about how to do ink reviews. I must confess that I'm far less knowledgeable than our very own Saskia_Madding, Visvamitra, Sandy1, MusicMan and LGSoltek to name but a few who are on the first page of Ink Reviews.

So, every day (or every few) days, a new topic will post so we can talk about ink reviews. Your actual ink reviews still go in the Ink Review forum, these topics are for us to Ponder the Peculiarities and Think about Ink.

First, which ink do you pick?

Now, which papers do you use?

So, which pen or pens do you use?

What information do you want to see in a review? What is important? What is just nice?

 

Now that you have your review completed, how do you upload your images? Do you host them on FPN? Do you host them on your own servers?

[lgsoltek]

In my first few posts I uploaded the images on FPN, but the images are compressed. So nowadays I host them on my own server.

[amberleadavis]

I've been hosting mine on my website with GoDaddy, but they made more changes and it is super duper slow.

[musicman123]

I am running a Mac Mini 2012 OS X Server on a 100/10 network from home. All my images are hosted there, with a domain name purchased from GoDaddy. My swab database is also running on the same server. The same server is also my media server, email server, calendar server, and contacts server.

Edited May 9, 2015 by musicman123

[amberleadavis]

From our own moderator, D.ick.

 

Uploading pictures:

 

BE SURE you have the rights to publish the picture! FPN will not be held responsible for any copyright-infringements!!!

 

And please upload your pictures to our servers, that will make sure the pictures stay visible, and are not accidentally removed, or blocked by the picture host. Alas there are many old reviews on FPN useless as all the pictures for the review are gone.

 

If you are new to FPN your picture uploading abilities are severely limited for security reasons.

As a Bronze member you can attach pictures using the Full Editor. There you will find a button to choose a picture from your computer to add to your post. This method has a very limited capacity!

 

After 7 days membership you are promoted to Bronze-+ member (bronze-plus). After that you are able to use the Upload-facility.

To use this, click the Upload button on top of the FPN-screen, in the button-bar right under the FPN-logo.

This will open a new tab or window for your browser, so you can switch from your message to the pics you are uploading.

In the new window, choose either Upload from HDD to find a picture on your computer, or paste a link to a picture on the internet in the space just below the HDD option.

Click Add Image to send the picture to our servers.

 

To get the picture in your post, you have to copy the link to the uploaded picture in your post.

First go to Full Editor. (you don't HAVE to, but that will give you a preview option!)

To do that, click the little button after the name of your picture. (the thing with the arrow pointing up)

That will display the codes to use.

Hover your mousepointer over one of these, it will autoselect. Use BBcode. Right-click your mouse and choose copy.

Then go to the window with your text, click the mouse on the position you want the picture, right-click and paste.

You will now see the code to your picture.

If you want more pictures, repeat.

 

You can type the text for your post around those codes. Use preview to see if it works out as you intended.

 

If you are satisfied, click Post.

 

 

A more extensive description with many pictures can be found under the button MANUALS on the upper border of the FPN screen.

 

 

D.ick

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

I've a paid account on Photo Bucket.

 

For the most part its OK, but it seems options for cloud storage of images have increased since I started using that service, so if I didn't have all my legacy stuff on there I'd be taking at fresh look at all options.

 

Bye,

S1