Rocky Mountain High

[Cormanus]

Image policy site suggestion

3KBRACING, posting pictures is a never ending saga. The best way is to upload them to a photo-hosting site like Imgur or Postimage and then link to them. Using the forum's attachment feature limits you to a file size of 250 kb per attachment which, if you're not used to reducing the file size can be a pain.

However, given the appearance of the numbers in your post, it looks like they uploaded. Did you take the next step of clicking "Insert attachment in post"?

Try again in a new post.

I would suggest that the site owner implements the following set of rules in regard to the image posting:

If the image is about a technical subject related to the motorcycle, it should be reduced to no more than 150 kb, with the long dimension of less than 1000 pixels. Such pictures will, presumably, remain on the forum server ad inifinitum as they are of lasting value to the readers, and their disappearance would probably make a post they illustrate much less useful.

The images accompanying ride reports, meets, general interest topics, etc., should also be reduced in size, perhaps not quite as strictly as those above, and should be uploaded (as Cormanus suggests above) on some external service that supports hot-linking. However, as a matter of etiquette, those should also be reduced in width to 1000 pixels or less. They will vanish from the post when the owner removes them from the image sharing service, or when that service goes out of business, or when it decides to subvert hot-linking - whichever happens first. The consequences of disappearance of the second type of images are minimal.

This is not a particularly strong colour, rotor. I didn't know the heading was there until I quoted the post and saw it. Is it just my eyes?

Image policy site suggestion

3KBRACING, posting pictures is a never ending saga. The best way is to upload them to a photo-hosting site like Imgur or Postimage and then link to them. Using the forum's attachment feature limits you to a file size of 250 kb per attachment which, if you're not used to reducing the file size can be a pain.

However, given the appearance of the numbers in your post, it looks like they uploaded. Did you take the next step of clicking "Insert attachment in post"?

Try again in a new post.

I would suggest that the site owner implements the following set of rules in regard to the image posting:

If the image is about a technical subject related to the motorcycle, it should be reduced to no more than 150 kb, with the long dimension of less than 1000 pixels. Such pictures will, presumably, remain on the forum server ad inifinitum as they are of lasting value to the readers, and their disappearance would probably make a post they illustrate much less useful.

The images accompanying ride reports, meets, general interest topics, etc., should also be reduced in size, perhaps not quite as strictly as those above, and should be uploaded (as Cormanus suggests above) on some external service that supports hot-linking. However, as a matter of etiquette, those should also be reduced in width to 1000 pixels or less. They will vanish from the post when the owner removes them from the image sharing service, or when that service goes out of business, or when it decides to subvert hot-linking - whichever happens first. The consequences of disappearance of the second type of images are minimal.

I suspect you know a great deal more about this than I, rotor, but, for some reason, the forum software is able to control the size of photos posted externally. For that reason I've never found a reason to worry about their dimensions. It is only photos loaded directly to the site that cause that awful width problem where the image is so wide that you have to zoom in on the text to read it.

3KBRACING, [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12717]this post of max's is a useful guide to using an image hosting service. Please keep asking for help. It must be a product of age, but we all like looking at pictures. Many members are happy to assist.