for all those who wonder: a simple way to post flickr pictures on RFF

[BobYIL]

Henri says "Flickr or not, it's very simple with Firefox: Just left click on me and swipe through my picture until you see and feel "blues" then right click on Copy Image and take me with anywhere you want to Paste."



(Here you see Henri trying the new M9M with the Apo-Summicron. )

[Alberti]

Glad to see it is not just a legal problem (backlink/bbcode) but also technical.
I have not been able to get better than thumbnails in my pictures recently in Safari since Flickr made it harder - and even I saw F might not support saw old linkages; the reason for me to stop posting.

I think you made me happy.

Yes, BB code works like a charm in Safari:


Haute Couture by Alberti.nl, on Flickr

Though using the RFF gallery would be better than Fr, as I have a habit of managing my pictures (reorganising) on Fr which includes deleting, maybe ones that might have been posted long time ago.
albert

[Mojo]

The simplest way to post an image into a message thread from flickr is to
- open the image page on Flickr
- click the Share button
- click the "grab the HTML/BB code" option
- select the BBCode option
- copy the code
- paste the code into a message editor here

I tried Godfrey's approach and pasted the code in the mesage body but instead of showing the photo, it shows the code. What am I doing wrong?

[Godfrey]

Originally Posted by Mojo

I tried Godfrey's approach and pasted the code in the mesage body but instead of showing the photo, it shows the code. What am I doing wrong?

You didn't click the BBCode option. For example, choosing the same photo on Flickr, copy and paste in the code with HTML chosen shows:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/8641854465/" title="Soon Gone #1 by Godfrey DiGiorgi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8641854465_83c31c1c79_o.jpg" width="1024" height="681" alt="Soon Gone #1"></a>

Choose BBCode, copy and paste the code for the same photo and you get this:


Soon Gone #1 by Godfrey DiGiorgi, on Flickr

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[ZF1]

There's a faster way still. On PC go to flickr then press alt+F4 on Mac hold command+option and press the eject button! works every time!


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[palmerfralick]

Probably very dumb question, but why the need for flickr or any other hosting site?
all of these methods still feel cumbersome to me. Everything else I do on my mac seems so simple, except posting on this site. I beginning to think I'm simple! i guess I will have to get my daughter to teach me.

[Godfrey]

Originally Posted by palmerfralick

Probably very dumb question, but why the need for flickr or any other hosting site?
all of these methods still feel cumbersome to me. Everything else I do on my mac seems so simple, except posting on this site. I beginning to think I'm simple! i guess I will have to get my daughter to teach me.

If you want your photos to be shared over the web, you have to post them on a web server somewhere. Whether its your own web server, flickr, the RFF gallery, whatever ... It must be a web server. Flickr.com used that way is simply a web server for you to store photos on.

The mechanisms for posting photos saved on a web server to other web presentation mechanisms vary. Flick.com to RFF seems very simple to me.

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[Godfrey]

Originally Posted by ZF1

There's a faster way still. On PC go to flickr then press alt+F4 on Mac hold command+option and press the eject button! works every time!

Command+Option+Eject on OS X puts the system to sleep, powering off the display. Alt+F4 on Windows closes the current window.

If your comment was intended as a flippant jest, fine, but you should indicate that more clearly as many might take it as actual advice and be perplexed when their display goes dark.

It's not courteous when in discussion on RFF to suggest something for people to use which is a prank that everyone might not be familiar with.

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[hteasley]

Originally Posted by david.elliott

I go to 'all sizes,' choose the size of the photo I want and then right click on the photo to copy the image url and use that in the img tags here.

That's what I do, too.

[rhl-oregon]

Originally Posted by Bill58

Thanks very much, I know how to post an image in a thread, but how do I post in the gallery?

Open the Gallery, click the Gallery tab, look down to "Upload photos." You'll be prompted to browse your computer (or cloud applications) for the image.

If you use LR, you'll want to have exported to a HD or cloud folder the images you want to upload, based on the Gallery restrictions (JPG no bigger than 390KB). I use LR4, export to a Dropbox titled Exports. After I've uploaded them to RFF Gallery and/or Tumblr, I can clean up the folder.

Hope that helps.

[ampguy]

using the bbcode / linkback stuff here:


DSCF7297 by matsumura, on Flickr

[Mojo]

You didn't click the BBCode option. For example, choosing the same photo on Flickr, copy and paste in the code with HTML chosen shows:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/8641854465/" title="Soon Gone #1 by Godfrey DiGiorgi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8641854465_83c31c1c79_o.jpg" width="1024" height="681" alt="Soon Gone #1"></a>

Choose BBCode, copy and paste the code for the same photo and you get this:

I did all this but when I post the code here, only the code shows:


Leica SR Lens Cap Mounted 1 by Mojo238, on Flickr

I have set the pjoto for public view.

[Mojo]

Oops, It shows after I activate "post quick reply". Thanks for the help.

[robert blu]

clementina di der blaue robert, su Flickr

it works!
robert