Test and post your images direct onto June 2020 NEW Stampboards

MargoZ · Post by **MargoZ** » 01 Jun 2020 19:28

Stamp collecting is a very visual hobby - members are strongly encouraged to add captioned images to all posts, and now this is easy with Stampboards hosting its own images.

Since our major tech update on June 1st 2020, you can add images here directly - from your phone or laptop or tablet etc -

Maximum Size is now a whopping 1024, a big 15% increase from the maximum on the old board.

We do NOT want members using IMGUR/IMGBOX any longer. EVER. It chews up a ton of backroom time for Mods to now manually convert them over and now there is ZERO reason to do it - OK? And NEVER remove the letter "s" from htpps as we once needed to do - again, this messes up the new system.

How to instantly add Images off your device to stampboards -

Click on New Topic or Post Reply to open a posting window.
Click on Attachments tab then Add files box

Clicking on Add files will take you to the images files on your device.
Select the image/images you require then click Open

You will be returned to your posting window with image files displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Add a caption in the File comment box then click Place inline[/b] - that bit is most important.

The caption you type there in File Comment will appear in the posting box under the image and that is ESSENTIAL to do as google then indexes that photo with a relevant caption.

Press Submit

Use the "PREVIEW" Button for the first few times, to ensure you get it all correct!

Your image and caption have now been posted to the board

Google ''spidering'' is ESSENTIAL to this board. Use detailed and precise captions PLEASE in the caption box BEFORE you hit submit - you cannot easily add them later. "NICE COVER" is what we do NOT want to see!

It is still ''possible'' to add images via third party image hosting sites.

We really do NOT encourage that at all, as it takes hours of manual work a week by the back room Moderator team, to tediously convert them to stampboards hosted images, and so be preserved for posterity.

Popular ones we ONCE included www.imgbox.com or the even better www.imageshack.com - both were simple to use -

And remember, you now do not have to remove the ''S'' from end of https on any image or link you post here as was once essential - in fact, do NOT ever do that please, or images often will not display on new software and takes Mods hours to sort out.

N.B. For IMGUR users - that hosting site is now totally compatible with Stampboards, but must not be used for the Sales Forum, as always. I repeat do not use it here - load images DIRECTLY.

Please test your direct image loading skills below! It is much easier than you may think. Use ''PREVIEW'' for your first few tries.

Kewinmons · Post by **Kewinmons** » 01 Jun 2020 22:07

: My town pictorial cancel

Rog · Post by **Rog** » 02 Jun 2020 00:08

Testing 1...2....3

Rog · Post by **Rog** » 02 Jun 2020 00:10

Testing alignment 4....5.....6

: QEII South Georgia

Rog · Post by **Rog** » 02 Jun 2020 00:11

Working fine for the most part, but aligning it 'inline' with the centre button is broken.

Being able to add captions so easily now is great too!

Philexx · Post by **Philexx** » 02 Jun 2020 01:02

Philexx · Post by **Philexx** » 02 Jun 2020 01:03

kenlondon · Post by **kenlondon** » 02 Jun 2020 03:07

: Iran SG214 maybe?

ebay · Post by **ebay** » 02 Jun 2020 04:10

ebay · Post by **ebay** » 02 Jun 2020 04:14

ok so last night i didn't have " Attachment box" ect

Now i do. i also have a box with "normal" " tiny" "huge" ect

the above image is LARGE ??? but as you can see it isnt !!!

Wayne1951 · Post by **Wayne1951** » 02 Jun 2020 04:25

When I try to post an image using these instructions I get a pop up saying the image is too large. The scan is a regular 300dpi scan.

ebay · Post by **ebay** » 02 Jun 2020 04:26

: South Australia Samp.

Kainnikanada · Post by **Kainnikanada** » 02 Jun 2020 04:27

ebay wrote: ↑
02 Jun 2020 04:14
ok so last night i didn't have " Attachment box" ect
Now i do. i also have a box with "normal" " tiny" "huge" ect
the above image is LARGE ??? but as you can see it isnt !!!

That drop down box is only for text control - unrelated to image insertion!

ebay · Post by **ebay** » 02 Jun 2020 04:31

Hi Kainnikanada.
Nice one, i couldn't understand why it wasn't making my scan bigger.

obvious now.

Jose Paulo · Post by **Jose Paulo** » 02 Jun 2020 05:07

: Bridge JK

gugusg · Post by **gugusg** » 02 Jun 2020 06:30

Test

faro · Post by **faro** » 02 Jun 2020 06:33

Testing for quoteable image attachment...

(Apparently not?)

faro · Post by **faro** » 02 Jun 2020 06:34

gugusg wrote: ↑
02 Jun 2020 06:30
Test

Aha... the other "reply" works (with quote)?

gugusg · Post by **gugusg** » 02 Jun 2020 06:35

test 2

: General Colonies - Cambodge PnumPenh

David Benson · Post by **David Benson** » 02 Jun 2020 06:45

Testing,

David B.

Kainnikanada · Post by **Kainnikanada** » 02 Jun 2020 07:02

High Unsharp mask

Medium Unsharp mask

Kainnikanada · Post by **Kainnikanada** » 02 Jun 2020 07:20

Unsharp Mask High

Unsharp Mask Medium

WEIRD AL · Post by **WEIRD AL** » 02 Jun 2020 09:34

Temora22 · Post by **Temora22** » 02 Jun 2020 15:41

: Hyland Evades cover

Cullen · Post by **Cullen** » 02 Jun 2020 18:27

Test

liketodabble · Post by **liketodabble** » 02 Jun 2020 18:52

: missing gold on 1968 5 cent Christmas stamp ,used

aerogi · Post by **aerogi** » 02 Jun 2020 18:56

: Etat indépendant Congo

Test

pmc · Post by **pmc** » 02 Jun 2020 19:35

Testing...

It works!

Bunge · Post by **Bunge** » 02 Jun 2020 19:48

Bunge's 1st test

: Hummocks Hill Squared Circle Postmark

tikithindi · Post by **tikithindi** » 02 Jun 2020 23:57

: India 1947 Issue Ashoka Trimurti

suluc1 · Post by **suluc1** » 03 Jun 2020 16:37

: test

dukeprince · Post by **dukeprince** » 03 Jun 2020 17:49

test

: pic 1

dukeprince · Post by **dukeprince** » 03 Jun 2020 17:54

test

: wa cindy/local

JonEboy · Post by **JonEboy** » 03 Jun 2020 17:59

Test at 600 dpi

tooler · Post by **tooler** » 04 Jun 2020 03:34

: Man with tail flaw

librarianc · Post by **librarianc** » 04 Jun 2020 05:25

Canada O Canada mini-pane Unitrade CS#858ai

Scan at 600 dpi - 1522 x 1170 scan size - drag and drop

librarianc · Post by **librarianc** » 04 Jun 2020 05:28

546 x 456, 600 dpi - Canada UCS#858 pane

librarianc · Post by **librarianc** » 04 Jun 2020 05:37

Canada Revenue Van Dam #FSC25 - Supreme Court Law Stamp - Broken 1

600 dpi - 897 pixels x 1868

MPSStampCollect · Post by **MPSStampCollect** » 04 Jun 2020 11:25

Test fantasy imperforate Inverted Jenny. No nasty corner perfs to flick off. :lol:

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jun 2020 16:39

Testing drag and drop from my desktop.

1024 original size

500

800

Not bad!

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jun 2020 16:46

New images taken from WNS and copied to my desktop.

Thumbnail

Details

Full resolution version

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jun 2020 16:51

A minisheet from WNS without resizing.

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jun 2020 17:20

Image as already posted on Stampboards using imgbox size

from WNS with no resizing

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jun 2020 17:39

One last test

Where the postage stamp has a clear, crisp design any size is appropriate and can vary according to what the member wants to illustrate. In saying that the image should not be larger than a typical screen. The bird below would fill the screen if it was landscape but the portrait format means the whole image can not be seen at once.

Where the printing process has resulted in vague images then very large pictures are a waste of time.

I only placed the large image once but it has displayed twice! Why is it so

mobbor · Post by **mobbor** » 04 Jun 2020 17:41

[img]

maszki · Post by **maszki** » 04 Jun 2020 17:48

maszki · Post by **maszki** » 04 Jun 2020 17:54

Testing 1,2 and 3

Seems easy enough but I'll find a way to make it difficult

kenlondon · Post by **kenlondon** » 04 Jun 2020 20:03

KevinHedley wrote: ↑
04 Jun 2020 17:39
I only placed the large image once but it has displayed twice! Why is it so

I had that problem. What I did was look at the gobbledegook code and edited out the second copy. Not easy if not a techie. Most important thing is to ensure that everything is paired e.g., I've done a partial quote of your post, make sure that quote= (in square brackets) is paired with a /quote (in square brackets) which terminates the quote, likewise with the image codes.