How to post a picture on new format

[Bruce Zumsteg]

Can someone please tell me how to post a picture on this new Forum format? When I click on
the 'insert image' icon, all I get is: . How do I get to the window that allows me to
select the picture, set the format, insert etc. ?

Thanks, BZ

[Dave Mudgett]

Bruce - assuming you want to upload something on your computer - click the Post Reply button, then look below the reply text area for the attachment tab. Click it, click Add files, navigate to your files, select the image file you want to upload, and click the button to open the file.

This will bring up a new section on the reply page below the Attachment tab to either place the file inline or delete the file. Select Place inline. This will put the attachment inline to where your cursor is, and that looks like this:

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[attachment=0]front (162 x 122).jpg[/attachment]

This step is essential. If you want to move the attachment to a different place, just cut and paste that attachment code wherever you want it.

If you want to see what this look like graphcally before you start, take a look at this thread in Forum Information and Feedback - viewtopic.php?p=3252739

One more thing - once you have made your post, your photo attachment will be stored on the server, but not before that. Once it's on the server, it will have a URL from which you can reference it again using the img tags, which is what Insert Image does (and has always done). So if you have a photo that you'd like to post, with a valid URL, you can simply place the image inside the img bbcode brackets. For example, this code

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https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/download/file.php?id=306

produces this image on the post



I'll eventually move this thread over to Forum Information and Feedback.

[Jack Stanton]

Dave,
You may want to pin this somewhere.... I had problems uploading pictures in the new format as well, and I'm semi-computer literate.
Thanks for all you for for the forum.
Jack

[Bruce Zumsteg]

Dave, thanks for the instructions. BZ

[Bobby D. Jones]

When bOb was the computer Goo-Roo running the forum, He had a program installed that would automatic, Cut
the picture to size and post it. On the forum since the whole new layout was installed about Feb 15th or so. Things have changed.
The only way I can get pictures to post on the forum is to take pictures with extra back ground, Left, Right, Top and Bottom. The use a photo program in my computer, To cut all 4 sides of the picture, Then save it at the smaller size,
Then when I click on a picture, Then hit the open block below the picture, It will load it into the post.
Here is an example this picture had 2 sets of picks. had to cut and load 1 set of picks at a time.
Hope this will help you posting pictures.

[Dave Mudgett]

On the old forum version of phpBB we ran for 20 years, b0b set an image size limit of 2400x2400 pixels, but the system often choked on images that large, and large photos like that virtually always ran past the page boundaries, forcing scrolling to read all the text in posts. There was an intrinsic size reduction in that version that b0b invoked to automatically reduce photo sizes. But it also often choked on large images. The last year or two, many people had massive problems posting photos because cell phone resolutions got so much larger - for example, iPhone images the last few years had a default size of something like 3000-4000 pixels squared. So people were having to reduce photos on the old system too. I personally have always reduced photos to under 1200x1200 pixels to avoid overloading the system.

In the new system, there is just an image size limit in MB, which we set. It can handle pretty large photos, and initially that limit was set at 5 MB. However, it was chewing up a lot of hard drive space and the larger images were huge on the page. There is an intrinsic photo-reducer in this system to reduce photos so they don't outstrip the page limits. But the large photos were not only taking up a lot of hard drive space, but also slagged the system down by 1) having to fetch the large photo; 2) take the processing time to reduce the image size, and 3) then finally send the image to the user. This happened every time a user opened the thread containing the image(s). So that size limit was reduced first to 4 MB, and then to 3 MB, which is where it stands now. This is much larger than can be displayed on a computer screen.

In the end, a 1200x1200 pixel photo, typically something like 300-500 KB, has perfectly fine resolution on a computer screen. And something in that vicinity is typically as much resolution as you see after the photo reducer gets done.