Posting Pictures with Imgur in 2018

[michael1954]

A small search on the cb1100 forum did not reveal a complete method to post pictures, so i thought it may be an idea to do a step by step way to get more members posting starting with how to open an account with imgur ( a free image hosting internet service ).

here's the link;
https://imgur.com/

Click on any of the following pictures to get a detailed bigger view in a new window.



You need to click on sign up and provide the following information;



once complete click on "next";



check the box "i am not a robot"







the next page looks like this;



Click on "register"




You can see your new username in this page now.
As you are now registered with a new account.

I would recommend to bookmark this page to make it easy to find it in your browser.



Hover the mouse over your username in the right top corner and click on "images".



This page opens and click on "browse".



A window opens and you can now go to the folder where the picture is stored on your computer, select one or highlight multiple images and click on "open" or whatever box you normally use to open pictures on your pc.



imgur will now download the image ( s ) and display a progress bar in this page;



Once the images are downloaded the page opens with your image;



Once more hover the mouse over your username and select images;



Your images page appears and now click on the image you want to post;



select the second from the bottom "BBCode" and click on "copy".
The cell next to it now highlights green.

now you can go to your post on the cb1100 forum, put the cursor on the line below your text and rightclick
'paste".

The link pastes itself onto your edit space and should look like this;



If you now click on "preview post" it will take you to the preview page and you can check if all is as you intended.



If all is as you intended to be you can now click on "post thread" and it will take you to your post as usual.

To see the picture in original size hover the mouse over the picture and when the pointer turns into a "hand" click on the picture and it will open in a new window, if you click on that window again it will magnify that part of the picture even more to show small details and focus on the part of the picture on which you clicked the mouse.



This is an economical way to post as it takes a very small amount of storage ( 20 bytes ) on the forum ( which Guth pays for ) as opposed to the data required when the actual photo's ( 12 megabytes ) are stored in the forum server and is a better way instead of posting attachments ( storage ) to the forum, again; less cost to the forum management.

Good luck, it looks longwinded but is actually very intuitive once you have done it a few times, nothing to be scared about, it's only ones and zero's.

max

Thanks so much. These are the best instructions I have ever seen on how to post a pix. Will do it tomorrow as soon as I takes some pixs of my CB's.

PS....should I include the Z900RS?

[Cormanus]

Yes please.

[enzo_imp]

It does work.
South Australia Port Lincoln Cape Catastrophe 2020
Regards to all.
Enzo

[michael1954]

Thanks! max, just posted my first pictures here. Your instructions are super! Michael

[j3gq_imp]

I have read the fine-print on imgur all the way and back. There is no word on how long they will keep a picture, and in particular what happens if a file is not downloaded for a while by anybody. A forum needs stability / availability at least on some posts. Any thoughts on this ?

[bioman_imp]

Very good point. In addition to the possible shorter-than-expected life span of IMGUR, I have seen a case on an other forum where suddenly its previously posted pictures where no longer available because the picture hosting site introduced a payment scheme: Photobucket.com used to be free - then started to charge an annual fee and until the forum paid that fee the previously posted pictures where no longer visible.

Of course nothing lasts forever, certainly not in "the cloud" (except when you actually TRY to remove a picture off the Internet! ), but it would be nice if some of the pictures (especially instructions "how-to-...") were available for many years to come.

What are the options?

[peterbaron]

I've used imgur almost since my registration...just recently they ask for a support...so do not know what might be next. And a few times had to sign out and sign in again to have access to my pics...maybe there is something going on?????

[Cormanus]

It's hardly surprising that hosting sites ask for help. Unless they can defray their costs by selling advertising or data, what other source of income do they have? That's what happened to Photobucket, I suspect: it was a victim of its own success and suddenly found the advertising revenue was going nowhere near covering costs. Sadly the pricing regime the company put in place was so outrageous that most people simply cut their losses and walked away.

The only truly effective way around it is for individual forums to host the photos, but even then it's always possible the forum will fold.

[GoldOxide_imp]

It's hardly surprising that hosting sites ask for help. Unless they can defray their costs by selling advertising or data, what other source of income do they have? That's what happened to Photobucket, I suspect: it was a victim of its own success and suddenly found the advertising revenue was going nowhere near covering costs. Sadly the pricing regime the company put in place was so outrageous that most people simply cut their losses and walked away.

The only truly effective way around it is for individual forums to host the photos, but even then it's always possible the forum will fold.

That is quite true Cormanus, and the cause may have nothing to do with storage, but the quality of the Forum membership.

[emptysea]

Anyone else having trouble uploading HEIC format pictures to imgur? Looks like you have to convert HEIC photos to JPG in order to add them. It's adding at least two additional steps to the upload process which I find annoying. However, maybe I'm missing something very obvious -- hope so.

If this should be posted elsewhere, please feel free to move it -- or remove it entirely if it's been answered someplace else herein.