Want to add a photo/image? Practice posting a picture HERE!

wiremubillgreaves · **Posted:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 02:28:19 am

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb157/billgreaves/scan0010.jpg

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 02:33:42 am

Bill you got to hit that "IMG" button for it to load!

And add it to the RELEVANT thread for the photo of course. Not here.

wiremubillgreaves · **Posted:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 08:59:39 am

ozstamps · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:19:58 am

Well done Billl .. look forward to seeing more posts with photos now.

stamper · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 19:55:42 pm

Scanning test 600 DPI website e mail size

Lakatoi 4 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 20:36:22 pm

Stamper......you have....a scanner

You really only need to scan at 300 dpi, that's the resolution on all my scans and it is really good enough.

Love those NZ stamp duty (got a few of them, including the different w/marks) :wink:

stamper · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 20:41:15 pm

Thanks Lakatoi

I will alter it down to 300 dpi.

I am now trying your suggestion of Black Hagner in scan.

*sighs* at how long it has taken me to find the cropping facility.

wannabgeek · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 23:59:32 pm

stamper,
do not feel bad I bought my PC and scanner end of last year and from being on here is where I have actually learnt to use it lol.

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 17:38:00 pm

Quote:

Thanks Lakatoi

I will alter it down to 300 dpi.

I am now trying your suggestion of Black Hagner in scan.

*sighs* at how long it has taken me to find the cropping facility.

I do not agree that for SINGLE stamps 300 is all we need. (for covers that are larger 300 does work) 600 gives a far larger image ... useful for when showing flaws etc. I even use 1200 a lot.

Stamper ... download the free google PICASA system . . that is what I use for EVERYTHING. :idea:

It took me less than one minute to crop and straighten your scan:

stamper · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 18:46:07 pm

Picasa Down loaded -

Testing Cropping & Re aligning function

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 19:50:05 pm

QUITE SUPERB!

Kaygeevee · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 20:11:27 pm

Just having a go with photobucket

Look good on preview :lol:

ozstamps · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 20:13:22 pm

Well done Kaygeevee ... see it is not only teenagers who can master this stuff!

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2007 19:01:09 pm

[quote="GlenStephens"][quote]Thanks Lakatoi

Stamper ... download the free google PICASA system . . that is what I use for EVERYTHING. :idea:

Glen, my wife has been scrapping (scrapbooking) for years and editing photos. She has followed my example of downloading PICASO and thinks Glen Stephens is wonderful.

If only she knew :!:

So a special thanks from another hobby.

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2007 19:02:05 pm

First time use of QUOTE but another stuff-up ... oh well :oops:

admin · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2007 20:12:49 pm

Kevin .. you are nearly there:

==============================

What you now have is:

[quote="GlenStephens"] [quote]

Stamper ... download the free google PICASA system . . that is what I use for EVERYTHING. :idea:

=========================

All you need do is put the words you want in between the 2 ][ command sections and be sure you END it with [/quite] - you are missing the '/' right now as you can see

This can all be done automatically using the "QUOTE" button on each post.

Glen

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 07:00:08 am

admin wrote:

Kevin .. you are nearly there:

All you need do is put the words you want in between the 2 ][ command sections and be sure you END it with [/quite] - you are missing the '/' right now as you can see

This can all be done automatically using the "QUOTE" button on each post.

Glen

Again, thanks Glen. All that happened was I also deleted the "/quote" when deleting the unwanted part of the message.

sandgroper · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 19:53:57 pm

Well done Kevin, Glad to see that encouragement rather than distain is being given to learner posters

plodhi2002 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2007 01:16:32 am

I would appreciate if someone here helped me view the whole post in the browser. Some posts can be viewed whole whilst some need scrolling using side keys. I tried reducing text size both in IE as well as Mozilla but had no success by this method. The post text size gets smaller but I still have to use side scroll keys!

parvaiz

gavin-h · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2007 02:27:23 am

Hi, Parvaiz,

The width of the post seems to be determined by the widest image on the thread. So if somebody has posted a LARGE picture of a stamp or cover, that will be the "default" for that thread.

As you said, reducing the text size will not reduce the width overall.

I am not aware of a solution to your problem, but another user might be able to help...

Gavin

sandgroper · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 14:18:37 pm

CAN ONE OF THE EXPERTS TELL ME HOW TO GET A PHOTO ATTACHMENT TO AN EMAIL ONTO PHOTOBUCKET OR OVER TO PHOTOSHOP

THANKS

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 14:27:30 pm

Sandgroper,

Am no expert but my two sen worth: - you could save the photo in your pictures folder and then use photobuckets to upload.

I think once you have the image saved in your pictures folder, you can easily open it up on Photoshop to edit, modify, etc.

Hope that helps
Andrew

sandgroper · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 17:37:41 pm

Hi Andrew, thanks but don't think that will work as Outlook Express files are .dbx files and you can't save them in another format. I guess there is something that can be done but I can't find it

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 17:42:03 pm

Sandgroper,

Don't know if this will work but may be worth a try. I sometimes get stuff in e-mails that I want the images of. What I do is copy the e-mail contents on to a word document and then copy the image from the word document into the pictures file. Then upload the image into photobuckets.

Best of luck.
Andrew

sandgroper · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 17:07:31 pm

Andrew you are a genius! First time I tried Explorer said it couldn't handle this type of Document but when I opened Word docs the file had gone across. Success. I can now do all sorts of new things with copies of stamps that people send me. Thanks

ken

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 23:06:18 pm

Or .. right click on the email (or web) image you see,and you want to keep. 'Save that' as "image1" or whatever.

Then go to photobucket and call up "image1" and voila ........

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 23:28:09 pm

Sandgroper,

Glad it worked for you. Hope to see you posting scans of your favourite stamps and covers soon.

Cheers
Andrew

Clino · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2007 14:24:26 pm

testing, 1, 2, 3 . . . .

[edit: omg it worked!!!!!!!!]

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 03:41:03 am

GlenStephens wrote:

And since the above was posted the members here have discovered :

www.photobucket.com

Totally free and you can take images from your own computer and post them here in seconds, or take large images from another website, size them to this page and post them here etc.

A GODSEND for those using these boards I can tell ya!

I added 600 scans to my account in 2 months.

Seems like 99% of those on this board now use photobucket from what I can see looking around the boards.

A timely reminder.

This photobucket works like a CHARM here, and is used by most members.

Also consider downloading the FREE google PICASA program that lets you readily edit the images you scan.

If I can use it .. ANYONE can use it!!!

http://picasa.google.com/download/

735dave · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 23:02:43 pm

Thank you for the useful information on posting images from photobucket. I have tried and hopefully you will see my result in item named "Paranoia" :lol:

I will be asking for much more expert advise over the coming months.

Keep up the good work

735dave

Ycrem · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 00:42:39 am

Are we to avoid the slideshow option? cos i just tried it a while ago and now it looks like i can't edit my pictures anymore! even the pictures that i dint include in the slideshow

Ycrem · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 04:17:46 am

Well, the edit option is working fine now! it's perfectly alright to use the slideshow...I really don't know what went wrong then, but it is safe to use them...sorry for all the confusion i have created so far :lol:

Thanks for being so patient with me!

Good Night all!

ozstamps · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 05:19:35 am

Remember members can edit anything they post here for ONE HOUR.

After that, a moderator can assist.

But what you have in your photobucket account YOU can of course edit or invert or make smaller whenever you like and it will reflect in the posts here. :idea:

joprev · **Posted:** Thu Nov 22, 2007 19:10:05 pm

How do I add an avatar to my profile??

joprev

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:52:06 pm

On photobucket you can quickly edit out the other links you never use, to just not appear so as you can't possibly get confised. (They for some reason give you 4 different types of link by default.)

I've edited mine to ONLY show:

Direct Link
IMG Code

The top one I use where making avatars for members, the lower link is what we use on these boards.

Most members here would get by just fine with just:

IMG Code

ralfnada · **Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 21:38:27 pm

Need help to post an image pls. I've joined photobucket and dont know how to get an image from my disk drive to go there.

Have installed picassa, I've tried various times to move a file to photo bucket but its not happening!

If I cant do this how can I get an image from photobucket to this board?

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:55:06 pm

Ralfnada,

If you already have photobucket, the next thing to do is:
1. Scan an image and save it as a jpeg file.
2. From photobucket, you click on one of those "browse" buttons.
3. After that hit the upload button.
4. Once the image is saved on photobuckets you will be able to view it.
5. Left click on the fourth tab below that image which has the words IMG Code in front of it.
6. Go to Stampboards and open a posting box.
7. Right click on the spot where you want to put the image and voila the image is there
(use the preview button to check that is coming out the way you want it).

Cheers
Andrew

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 03:58:40 am

Sorry, it's NOT 'about right' for this board.

Most of the right-hand stamp and all of its lower margin etc are off the screen to the right. Consequently it has made the frame too wide for the whole displayed page, which makes it necessary to scroll horizontally to read each and every message.

Images should be no larger than the normal width of the message FRAME, in pixels

Just my suggestion

(This page, of course, has an OK width, it is page 1 that is distorted.)

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 05:22:04 am

Ian true, but that is only when the MAX sixe of 1024 pixels is used.

Which is a trade off for clarity over convenience.

This kind of thing is fine:

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 20:58:45 pm

Glen,

You're right, the 'roo is fine, but if the image is wider than the page size I'll probably not read the page. I want to read what's on the screen, not what's in the next room.

If I have a magazine I don't start reading a line and then turn over to read the rest of the line, then back to the start of the next, etc. Which is what happens here.

My friend Jim directed me to the discussion on "Great Britiain Philatelic Congress" - http://tinyurl.com/ys9exj

As I have written back to him, it's an interesting discussion but has some faults:

- the large images mean that the frame width is doubled, so more than half the text in ALL messages (even those without images) is off to the right of the screen;

- most of those large images are very poor and their large size is unnecessary: the image of the 1940 GB FDC has been touched up but those covers were never white, and such alterations are unnecessary; the South African covers are almost wide than the whole screen!;

- some people seem to be unaware that when you 'quote' you can edit the quote to avoid showing the same large images 3 times in one thread.

None of this is rocket science, it just needs a little discipline.

Now I know you can't control the quality of the images that people post, and you could spend a lot of time as moderator editing the image size, but you have assistants, I think. And no I don't want the job, I have several already

As I said to Jim, I don't have time for all that scrolling. If the page is too wide, I'll ignore it.

But I like the discussions, and you have a more cosmopolitan membership that some boards

Cheers, Ian

admin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2008 16:31:02 pm

Ian .. the "wide" issue is all fixed.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:22:46 am

Thanks Glen - I realise it would be a lot of effort to 'fix' every thread and every previous post - http://tinyurl.com/ys9exj - is still all over the room!

Regards from sunny Norfolk (not the Island).

ozstamps · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:32:03 am

Done.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:37:45 am

What is?

See
"Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:38:23 Post subject: Re: 1940 Stamp Exhibition" on that Congress thread - http://tinyurl.com/ys9exj

ozstamps · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:38:34 am

All wide images re-sized

beardmore10 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 02:54:46 am

Second attempt using photobucket with setting at 800x600,let's see if i've got this right

OK,it look's better than my first attempt,although i've neglected to straighten it but i think i've got the hang of this now

Ian

admin · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2008 20:02:10 pm

beardmore10 - no stopping you now!

beardmore10 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 02:39:36 am

Yep, onwards and upwards

danielch · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 16:00:17 pm

I tried several times but all failed. I did like following:

[img]a%20picture%20link[/img]

There is once this format worked but the rest of time it doesn't work.

need help.thanks

ozstamps · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 16:40:02 pm

That works fine for me 50 times a day.

WHAT was the url you used?


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