PHOTOBUCKET DILEMMA

Thanks popgun, they come with a cool little capture program I've been using for years called Snagit...I've tried other screen capture programs but this one works best for me.
 
snagit is a great program. I use that too, but never tried the bubble thing
 
Wow! That is cool. We used to have SnagIt on our work computers, but the .gov took it away. Didn't know it had that bubble feature.
 
I use them alot, I think they are called "callouts", at least that is what Word and Snagit calls them.
They are located under the drawing menu in the Snagit Editor....funny I had to get One Note to capture this tool bar...seems Snagit doesn't like to take a picture of itself ;-)



Here are all the possible options:

[url=http://s1280.photobucket.com/user/offroadfx4/media/Snagit%20Callouts_zpsrvzvri8m.jpg.html]

I use them for almost every online transaction to capture the image, make notes on user names, passwords, etc, then store that picture before it disappears because you never know what screen comes next....some give the option to print a full invoice etc, some just say thank you ;-)
 
I must have an old version...all I have is pen, highlighter and erase under edit options
 
Mine is version 9.1.0 (Build 206) Nov 6 2008

I think I paid like $20 or $30 for it, but it's paid for itself several times.
 
I have a photobucket question as well. When I want to view a forum photo posted via photobucket in higher resolution, there's the "click photo to enlarge" message when I hover over the pic. Always when I click on it, I first get the photobucket window (like the ones shown by CIP57 and offroad) in this thread with the address beginning with "s" like s###.photobucket.com. Unfortunately, It is the same size and resolution as the forum pic! But, if I immediately exit (X out of) that photobucket window and hit the same forum photo again, I get the larger photo at higher resolution (1024 x ___) with an "i" address such as i###.photobucket.com. That's the image I wanted in the first place, and it does not have all the photobucket side bar text, etc.

Weird.

I use a Chromebook and photobucket. I am usually always logged into photobucket. I don't mind the little work around personally to be able to see higher resolutions. But is my experience representative?
 
Hmm never tried that to make it bigger, just gave up when it came up the same size. Will have to give that a try
 
Bob, that's interesting. I can't replicate the behaviour, but I think Photobucket has made a system change somewhere so that, no matter what you click on, the link redirects to the "s" address. I always post links to the "i" address, but when I click on them from the forum I see a new tab open, the "i" address appears briefly in the address bar and is then replaced by the "s" address. If you click on the link to one of offroadfx4's pictures in this thread, you'll see the same thing happen.

Even if you copy the link to the "i" address and paste it into your address bar, it will redirect you to the "s" page. Try this link to offroad's picture, http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a491/offroadfx4/Snagit Tool Bar1_zpsp3elwqud.png.

Edit: I can't' even display the "i" address pages of my own photos when I'm logged into Photobucket. It's very odd.
 
Cormanus_imp said:
Bob, that's interesting. I can't replicate the behaviour, but I think Photobucket has made a system change somewhere so that, no matter what you click on, the link redirects to the "s" address. I always post links to the "i" address, but when I click on them from the forum I see a new tab open, the "i" address appears briefly in the address bar and is then replaced by the "s" address. If you click on the link to one of offroadfx4's pictures in this thread, you'll see the same thing happen.

Even if you copy the link to the "i" address and paste it into your address bar, it will redirect you to the "s" page. Try this link to offroad's picture, http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a491/offroadfx4/Snagit Tool Bar1_zpsp3elwqud.png.

Edit: I can't' even display the "i" address pages of my own photos when I'm logged into Photobucket. It's very odd.
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Cormanus,

I have also noted the immediate redirection from "i" to "s" every time I perform my "trick" to enlarge a photo from photobook. It might be my Chromebook doing this, but the photobucket image comes up in a new window which overlies the forum window. I "x out" of that new photobucket window (hitting X at the top right) and immediately click on the forum picture, just like I did the first time!. On try number 2, photobucket does not redirect and I get the larger, higher resolution "i" photo in the new window.
 
Bob, I can't replicate what you describe, but then I'm out and have only an iPad with me. I might look at it again on my computer later in the day. Every time I go for an "i" page it redirects to "s". It doesn't seem to matter what trick I try.

Cheers
 
Cormanus,

Thanks for your time and effort on this. Let me know what you learn when you get back and can play more on the computer. Also, check my photobucket images on the thread below.

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7945&highlight=wildflower

The first image of a map is low resolution, but the others should enlarge. Or not. I guess we'll see. Thanks again.
Well ....

Trying again, I see that my MacBook running on the Chrome browser enlarges the way it should, while my Chromebook running on Chrome wants to be "tricked" into enlarging the photo. The enlarged images will give me a 1024x576 resolution for my biggest photos which I assume is about the largest allowed by the site's resizing software. Anyway, everything's okay, I think, with what I want to do.

My Mom always said I was "special" so maybe my experience is unique.
 
So all we have to do when linking images from PB is to swap the "i" with the "s" and we can have "normal" page display without all the photobucket crap? Interesting hack if that's how it works.
 
kmoney_imp said:
So all we have to do when linking images from PB is to swap the "i" with the "s" and we can have "normal" page display without all the photobucket crap? Interesting hack if that's how it works.
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You would think so, but it has never let me change the URL address from s to i in the prefix. PB always wants to redirect to "s" maybe to give you all their ads and stuff. I simply don't take "no" for an answer. When I get the first "s" photo with the PB side board stuff, I kill that window and click on the forum photo one more time. That's when I get the appropriately large "i" (uncluttered) image.
 
Bit more information:

1. The workaround seems only to work on Chrome on my Mac. It doesn't work at all with Safari in which it seems I can display only the "s" pages.

2. I thought it worked fine in Firefox with the correct link opening, but I was wrong. It's erratic and often seems to require restarting Firefox to get an image that previously wouldn't open to the "i" page to do so.

3. You won't be able to redirect in the address bar by simply changing "s" to "i" as there are other parts of the URL that are different.

I'm betting it's a Photobucket issue and I've emailed them to ask about it. I'll of course post any advice.
 
I couldn't get it to work last night on my pc using Safari
 
I don't use photobucket, but are you all pasting the direct link code into the "insert image" option on the forum (where it requests the Image URL)? That should work.

Here's one of nvbobr images using photobucket direct link code and using the "insert image" on the forum.

63b669e25236ea0ec90a3120491737ca.png
 
curlyjoe_imp said:
I don't use photobucket, but are you all pasting the direct link code into the "insert image" option on the forum (where it requests the Image URL)? That should work.

Here's one of nvbobr images using photobucket direct link code and using the "insert image" on the forum.

63b669e25236ea0ec90a3120491737ca.png
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Curlyjoe,

Where the photobucket share options are

Email & IM
Direct
HTML
IMG

I have always just copied the IMG code into the body of my posts.
 
What Nvbobr said. I don't even know what the i and s things are :)
 
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