Did you post that via Photobucket? A lot of people are saying that they can't post, using that anymore. But saving any picture to the desktop works. It's very easy to post pictures.

Ok. Trying another...

Okay it looks like I can only post standard-size photos, not the original jsize. Gotta go. I'll be back tonight to post details, when I'm not as frazzled.

Sol

Sorry Jasdip, I didn't catch your comment earlier. Yes, the photos were posted using my PB account. I will be back shortly to explain.

Sol

Btw, yes, it is easy to post directly from your PC. But some folks were interested in using a host, instead of posting directly from their computers.

Sol

Sol, I don't know which is better, your photograghic talent or your food. Nah, I know, the food wins.

Beautiful dishes! Subtle but amazing details.

Looking forward to your instructions, because I still can't figure it out. :) I see they've given us list formatting. I figured it was coming because of the weirdnesses I stumbled onto last week (they were probably testing) I would like bold/italic and colors more, and have the link maker work (which it did when we first got here but now has gone all weird). I wonder if all the weird linespacing was part of the list testing or if it's from a separate formatting thing they're working on?

I have pictures that are only on Photobucket and they were already resized to fit the GardenWeb format. I can't figure out how the heck to post them, other than sending them to myself, moving them to a file from my email and then posting them, which is a bigger PIA than originally putting them into Photobucket and resizing them. Ugh.

I'll also look forward to Sol's help.

Annie

There is a thread going over at The Hosta Forum, explaining how to do it.
It doesn't work for me, and it seems to freeze up my Firefox and I have to shut it down.

Maybe it will work for someone else though.

Sue....LINK-_Trying to get a link to work

Well, that's interesting, Sue. Let's give it a whirl with a non-Photobucket image... This is the no knead multigrain bread I made this week. Bingo! I know a lot of tricks, but never suspected that one. I'm in Firefox 34.0.5. Thanks!! BTW, it's not the most photogenic bread, but it tastes really good!

For compactness's sake I'll say it here: The trick is to click the Photo button, but put the URL on the file name line instead of choosing something from your computer.

If your pictures are in a photo host that routinely adds a link to their homepage and other extraneous code to your pictures, make sure you get the "HTML only" or "direct link" or "image address". That's the one that starts "http://";;;; (they're working on automatic link recognition and turned that green but while that looks clickable, it won't take you anywhere) and ends with ".jpg" or whatever file type extension the picture has. You can right click (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) on the picture and choose "copy picture location" or choose an option to "view" the picture, then copy the URL from there.

Thank-you, Sol and Sue!

JC

You're welcome.

My, what beautiful bread! Maybe I'll have some sticky buns to show tomorrow.

Sue

Well, I trust you all enjoyed my typos, e.g. "Bare with me?" I mean, it's not that I wouldn't be flattered, but I am married...

Peppi! M'dear, I hope you're keeping warm and safe. I'm ready to be catapulted into spring. If Antarctica doesn't let up, I'm moving back to Cuba.

Thank you Plllog for your kind words. Btw, full credit goes to TJ (Tsugajunkie); I stumbled onto his post about a week ago, but never got around to testing his idea until now. This was his original post on the subject: PB Photos. I haven't tried the multi-grain bread yet, but yours certainly looks delicious!

Annie, I was going to post the instructions, but Chemocurl beat me to the punch. If you have any questions, please, let me know.

I'm still not thrilled with the new, sterile-white-hospital format; maybe I'm just getting too old and ornery to embrace change. Oh, did you hear? Whole Foods is coming to East Lansing, nearby MSU.

I will no longer have to drive over an hour to get to WF. And I don't care how expensive it is. I'll be happy to just fondle my way through the produce section.

One more picture, and I'll be moving on. Remember when my guy was this little?

Sol

Sol, I've always loved that picture of Thumper, even though he's now grown and isn't Thumper any more. Sigh.

Did you hear the other news? Trader Joe's is coming to Grand Rapids, open by the end of the year or the first part of 2016! On 28th Street right across from the malls, so I'm excited. I can go right down Northland Drive and nearly run straight into it, then go to the Mediterranean Market, the Asian place, GB Russo's, hit Costco and Penzey's on the way home. Heck, it's nearly like it's becoming a real city, and I haven't even checked out the new Downtown Market yet.

I'll try the Photobucket thing, maybe tomorrow. I might just be tired but that explanation made no sense to me at all. We'll see if a couple of hours of sleep will help, but usually computer talk sounds a lot like Swahili to me and it took me weeks to figure out how to use the Photobucket photos. Sigh.

Annie

Sorry, Annie, I was making a general statement of how to do it. Sol, you get credit for passing the word!

Here's the longform answer for Photobucket. First, in your Photobucket library, choose "Share" as you normally would, but instead of the HTML code you used in GW, choose "Direct", shown circled below:

Next, click on the Photo icon below the message writing box, shown circled below. That's the one ordinarily used for uploading a file from your computer.

Thanks all for these instructions. I haven't tried loading pictures yet, but here's the next question anyway: I've read in several places that you can load up to four pictures. However in a few threads I've seen people load more. Is there really no such restriction or is there a trick to override the limit?

Just popping in to make sure you all realize that you are not actually posting a link to your photos... unless it's a small photo. It appears to me that if a photo you link to is more than 500 pixels in dimension that Houzz is taking a COPY of the photo, resizing it to 500 pixels or less, storing it on their site, and then showing that copy of the photo in the post.

I was going to remark about Sol's gorgeous food pics, Plllg's beautiful bread, congratulate Annie for TJ's, then give thanks for the instructions. However, I am mesmerized by the picture of Thumper!

PM, thanks for pointing that out. Yes, people have been talking about that since we got here but it's important to repeat. Doing that makes the pages load a lot faster. Bigger files take an appreciable time to download, and calling them from a third party server gets all up in the security software and slows things down too. So long as Houzz doesn't mind giving up the server space for it, I don't see the harm. If a picture is online, even in a supposedly secure site, it can be made into a greeting card in Scotland (happened to a KF member some years back). I've often Googled images and landed in someone's "private" photo account. Your best guards against that is to take crappy pictures and give them unspecific names.

Last night I didn't bother to resize the screen shots, and you can see how the Houzz utility resized and blurred them. The top image is just a little smaller. The middle one is a lot smaller because I have CF zoomed a lot. The last one is much *bigger* than it was. The bread doesn't look as blurry but that might be because it's bread. I had reduced it to 800 pixels wide, and then Houzz did its 500 thing. One thing to remember with JPEGs is that they're also lossy, so each time they're saved they degrade a little.

I usually resize camera photos, like of the bread, so that all those extra pixels don't slow downloads, but with the Houzz system that's not necessary. If you right click on your image you can choose view image and it should give the URL and size of the image, which will show you that it's on Houzz and the size info. You may also have a choice of View Image Info on the image's right click context menu. The crackup is that you can see there that they add their standard keywords so people looking for architect might be slapped with a shot of the file upload window. :)

Cathy, thanks for the compliment --- Sol, I too am mesmerized by Thumper's picture. :)

Thanks, AnnieBanani! There's only one problem: Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor are equidistant from my house.
Which is why I'm glad there's a WF going up near me. And, as is often the case, as soon as Whole Foods opens in E.L., Trader Joe's is sure to follow.


Thank you, Cathy and Plllog! You wouldn't know it by looking at Thumper's innocent little face, but he has grown into a witty and sarcastic 16 yr. old (I know it's unusual for teenagers to overflow with sarcasm). He certainly didn't get it from my side of the family.


Plllog, you did it. My initial plan was to condense all the tips I'd picked up, regarding PB., and present it in a neat, easy to read little package, while including some of my findings. So, thank you for taking over the reins, and doing a damn good job, as I've been kind of busy cleaning up the lake in my basement.

Sol

Sol, thanks! I certainly didn't mean to steal your thunder! Just was here at the design computer with all the tools. ;)

So sorry to hear about the lake in your basement. I hope cleanup goes well and there isn't too much damage.

OK, here goes.....

I got a little thrown off with the "share" thing, as that's not normally how I post from Photobucket, I just choose the picture from the appropriate library and then copy from the choices on the right side, I don't open each individual picture and then share it. So, it didn't work about the first 6 times I did it, but eventually I caught on, LOL. And now you know why I don't twitter, tweet, text, Facebook or even use a cellphone (since there is NO reception out here in the boonies anyway). I haven't yet conquered a touch screen and after 3 years have yet to successful take a picture with Elery's iPod. Technology is NOT my friend, ugh.

Sol, sorry about the pipes, that sucks. We had the Chinese water torture going on here this weekend, ice dam on the roof. It seems that we've broken five or six "cold" records in February, and the Lake Michigan ice has doubled in only one week. I guess it could be worse, we could have last year's snow too.

Funny how kids get to be teenagers, isn't it? I knew that Thumper had become Mr. Manpants, but 16? How is that possible?

Thanks, plllog, for the instruction. I tried to insert my "thank you" at the top, but of course, I couldn't get the cursor to go THERE. (grin) So, it's here.

Annie

What a cutie! She obviously knows where brushes go. :)

Glad you figured it out. And you're welcome.