photo bucket

[the Ferret]

Gentlemen, has it occurred to anyone that sending photographs through or by "photobucket" is an impossible technological feat for some of us? I have tried many times to follow the steps provided by many a helpful forum member, and have yet been able to post a single picture through photobucket. The procedures sound simple enough. The problem is in my lack of computer knowledge necessary to post a picture successfully. I have the latest Nikon available (a birthday gift from last year), and have experience taking pictures for more than 40 years. Every time I use that camera, I must read the manual more than once to understand how it works! The one time I posted a picture it was my daughter's handiwork. When one is not up on computer technology or worse yet the "language" required to understand the instructions, it becomes a lost cause. There are so many pictures I would love to post on this forum, but I may as well try and make the "Mars Rover" maneuver on a planet I know nothing of. Sorry to butt in on this subject but I've totally given up on this, and now I'm reminded of the past failures.

Hiram, No, I don't think it is. You just have to learn a new skill set, like the rest of us did. I believe you said you taught highly technical stuff to others, so you obviously have the ability to grasp and understand technical things, and even teach those things to others.

I can't stress this enough, if you want to post pictures and have only been able to do it with your daughters help, invite her over, get a yellow note pad, and have her instruct you step by step and you write it down so that YOU can understand and repeat it. Write it down in language you understand. Instead of saying "right click" say "press right hand side of mouse pad" if you must. The language doesn't matter. Do it while she is seated beside you following the instructions you wrote down, and don't let her leave until you have a grasp on it. That is how I learned. My son taught me. After doing it a few times it will become second nature to you as it has to many of us in your age group who had very little computer experience. When I started just a few years ago I could literally not turn the computer on and off. I was afraid of doing anything for fear of breaking it or locking it up. I was nearing retirement and was assured there was a whole new world available thanks to computers if I would just take the time to learn the very rudimentary skills. They were right. Things like google, and youtube, have been amazing and opened up a while new world to me.
Want to learn most anything? ask google or youtube. Simply astonishing. You can even ask you tube how to post pictures from photobucket. There are videos on it, but I suggest the one on one with your daughter.

" impossible technological feat?" Hardly!

[Guth_imp]

Sometimes I think it's a good thing that posting images takes at least a bit of effort — quality over quantity and so forth. The pain involved in learning is all relative. I'm guessing that someone, somewhere is cursing the fact that they can't even figure out how to hop on the internet and search for a forum dedicated to the Honda CB1100.

[DGShannon_imp]

Sometimes I think it's a good thing that posting images takes at least a bit of effort — quality over quantity and so forth. The pain involved in learning is all relative. I'm guessing that someone, somewhere is cursing the fact that they can't even figure out how to hop on the internet and search for a forum dedicated to the Honda CB1100.

Unfortunately, the results don't pan out that way. Instead of quality, we see broken links, photos that are too small, photos that are WAY too large for the width of the screen, and most frequently, duplicated redundant posts where the users who can fix the links for the users who can't.

Investing in the effort to learn how is one thing. But, once learned, if the process itself is such a pain in the rear that you don't want to invest the time, the result is not quality. Instead, it is the absence to good content.

Sorry to rant. Love this forum, but absolutely hate the photo experience. I imagine that to be the case with many, if not the majority, of our users, but like me, they have probably just been reluctant to voice a negative.

[Guth_imp]

It's been voiced plenty of times. Trust me.

[DGShannon_imp]

It's been voiced plenty of times. Trust me.

Have you considered something like Google Communities, where the problem goes away, and the expense of hosting the forum becomes zero?

[Guth_imp]

By the way, the issue involving large image dimensions has been resolved for the most part. The only images that break the formatting now are large images that are small in file size that are posted as attachments. i'm still searching for a solution to that problem.

Basically, the photo thing is what it is. If this is too painful for some, there are other options out there (like the CB1100 groups on Facebook for example). I personally don't really care for the format of Facebook or the Google Community example that was provided, but that's just me. There are obviously plenty of others who feel differently.

[Southwend]

Basically what Randy & Ferret have said, but, if, when you plug your camera or card into the computer, said computer sees the camera's storage as an extra drive, you may be able to copy images direct to Photobucket. You'll still need a computer.

See this is the way I teach kids. Let me put this into a language you will understand.
Thanks.
Lord, I miss Kodachrome!
F-stops, shutter speeds, and dark rooms!

Gentlemen, has it occurred to anyone that sending photographs through or by "photobucket" is an impossible technological feat for some of us? I have tried many times to follow the steps provided by many a helpful forum member, and have yet been able to post a single picture through photobucket. The procedures sound simple enough. The problem is in my lack of computer knowledge necessary to post a picture successfully. I have the latest Nikon available (a birthday gift from last year), and have experience taking pictures for more than 40 years. Every time I use that camera, I must read the manual more than once to understand how it works! The one time I posted a picture it was my daughter's handiwork. When one is not up on computer technology or worse yet the "language" required to understand the instructions, it becomes a lost cause. There are so many pictures I would love to post on this forum, but I may as well try and make the "Mars Rover" maneuver on a planet I know nothing of. Sorry to butt in on this subject but I've totally given up on this, and now I'm reminded of the past failures.

I feel your pain. You aren't the problem, the program needs to be designed so everyone can use it or it is not useful.

[the Ferret]

DG I don't understand the difficulty. Like with the chain adjuster pics the other day someone wanted. Grab the camera, go to garage, take 6 pics, plug camera into computer, download pics to jpeg photo file. At that point its like taking any pics & downloading them for later viewing or sharing in an email or whatever.(vacation, kids, family, christmas... Kwhatever). Click on photobucket, instruct it to download pics, choose pics you want downloaded, say done and it downloads them all at once. Click on your bucket, click on photo you want to post, click on sharing link on right, it automatically copies that link, go to thread you want to post photo in, click and hit paste. DONE! I guarantee you I can go thru the whole process from sitting in my house to posting pics in a thread in under 5 minutes.

I'm going to post a pic from photobucket here and time it with my stopwatch

[url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/theferret111/media/CB%20trick%20pics%20001_zpsqea3g8kq.jpg.html]

Done 1 minute 3.39 seconds, including opening up the photobucket page

[url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/theferret111/media/image.jpg1_zpsbo2edxvp.jpg.html]

[kennyw]

I post all of my photos directly from my phone using the tapatalk app. It is quick and easy. I use photobucket from time to time but it takes a little longer jumping between apps.

[kmoney_imp]

I post all of my photos directly from my phone using the tapatalk app. It is quick and easy. I use photobucket from time to time but it takes a little longer jumping between apps.

Yeah, the nice thing about most newer phones is that the pictures they take are decent these days. I used to use my DSLR for everything, even craigslist and Ebay listings, because cell phone pics were basically a blur. These days any of the newer 6MB+ phone cameras can take photos that are good enough for most practical purposes.