Wow, no comments? Mocc and McTavish, I know you guys both use Flickr, at least. No one is having trouble with this but me? Say it ain't so!

Ludi had some hints at the link.

Look for Ludi

tj

I just got off of Hallsons site and downloaded a couple pictures and they are remarkably better by far. You may find McTavish and a few others are very happy with the quality and if something is not done here to quality, soon may lose a few more members to there

Funn, sorry to be so late to the discussion, but I've been on the HOME FORUM side and not the GARDEN side....not sure how to find Hosta Forum without a post coming to me from a thread that I follow.

McTavish is an authority on photos, I just take pictures. However, I am most distressed about the Flickr pictures not easily transferred here via HTML code. I had Photobucket also, but stopped uploading there a long time ago. Keyword retrieval of hosta by name is so easy. I'm not sure we can even retrieve from HOUZZ now.....by hosta name? Has anyone tried?

I must look for Faye's post about Hallsons photo quality. I know nothing, zilch, nada, about that feature at Hallsons. I feel I'm in a time warp, or a space bubble, lost in the etheric, mush for brains.

As important as photos are to this forum, it is a disaster to suddenly go cold turkey. After all, many of us are ADDICTED TO HOSTA.

https://flic.kr/p/r4wok9

This is the closest I could come. If you click on the link above you are taken to Flicker and actually see the picture at a decent size. It can also be clicked on to make it larger. This is not a perfect solution because who of us want to click on every single link to every single picture that is posted but it might do in a pinch for a single example of something we are trying to show.

The way I did it was

find the picture you want on Flicker

click on the curved arrow where we get the code. (It was HMTL for GW- for Hallson's it BB)

Select the link option (in the middle)

Past that here on the comment part.

That should work

Thanks, McTavish. However, it is a sad state when instant gratification is not an option.
I'll check out Hallsons picture posting.

Funn, I'm not sure my brain can wrap around this but I'll try. The picture you posted above has no text with it,. Did you paste it in with this method? And that is the size it appears here? I see when I mouse over it the name is on the rock, BLUE IVORY, but there is no embedded descriptive words.

Yes, Mocc, I did. Yes, there is defin a size issue and I don't think there's a solution yet to that. I chose the 1024 size to post from Flickr and Houzz adjusts.

Not sure I'm 100% understanding what you said about text, but you can still type something in like this, if this is what you mean. Here's a pic of Corn Belt, I am copying it as a 2048 x 1152 sized image. Houzz will adjust it, if not immediately, then when refreshed, if I have gathered correctly what others have said.

Note that the Photo window, when copying the code and clicking open, seems to freeze for a few seconds, then proceeds with opening and putting the image in here.

Trying.....copying HTML and pasting here...
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/moccasinlanding/16108831046"; title="20141224_135540B by moccasinlanding, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg"; width="640" height="360" alt="20141224_135540B"></a>

"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg";

Almost there, Mocc. Now, take that bottom code that you have there (minus the quotes on the outside) and copy it, then click the Photo icon at the bottom of your editing window, paste it into there and click open and wait. You should see your pic pop up in the editing box.

Ooooooh, wierd pic!

The above is what happened. On my computer, when I click the "photo" to retrieve a photo, it opens a window on my screen to retrieve a photo from my computer. NOT from Flickr. As you can see from the highlighted text above which became a URL link, nothing happened as I'd hoped. But, as far as I can tell, I did what you instructed. Where did I go wrong? :)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg

Copy this:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg

After "File name:" on this screen:

Select the open icon.

My computer tells me "file not found, check the name and try again."

Cowboy, that photo is so small the text is blurred and I cannot read it. I was pasting the same text into the window on my computer which opened after I clicked on the icon "Photo" in this box for Houzz.

Moccasin, can you paste, what you are copying into the file name: area, into a post? Maybe you have an extra character in what you are copying.

When I click on the text after the "hand" appears, a window opens which is blank except for a 404 which I assume is an error. I guess something is wrong with my computer? You are clicking the camera icon Photo and not the "Houzz Photo" icon?

I am using the Photo icon not the Houzz Photo icon.

Check out this link to see my upload page, hopefully yours is similar:
Upload screen (larger size)

trying it again
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg
POPUP BOX SAYS FILE NOT FOUND TRY AGAIN

It says, "This album is personally protected.
To access, please log in to account"

Perhaps it was a picture that I had on my camera, and uploaded to Flickr from my phone? Would that explain why the computer has no file memory of it?

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/moccasinlanding/14419841639"; title="20140707_184945 by moccasinlanding, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/14419841639_c012f52399_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="20140707_184945"></a>

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/14419841639_c012f52399_z.jpg

nope. that makes no difference, I still get the file not found message.

I have so much going on here at home right now, the carpenters need me to get things for them to install and finish off, that I must come back to this later. Thank you for trying to help. Perhaps after I meditate quietly for a few minutes, the remedy will appear. The remodel is urgent, real time.

That is strange. I am able to display your photo, just like Funnthsun.

It seems like if you got that error message, we should all get that message.

Try signing out of your browser and sign back in and see if anything changes.

Moccasin,

Good luck with everything. Hopefully you will get to post a photo soon. Is your Upload screen similar to the one I had in a link in a previous post? Are you using a Mac?

This is what you want to copy:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7498/16108831046_8fc80e876a_z.jpg

Mocc, all of my images are uploaded from my phone to Flickr, so that shouldn't be the problem. You using a Mac? or PC? Just curious if that might be the issue. I have a PC. Hopefully, we can figure out the problem with yours.

Cowboy, Funn, I have a PC. I will go through another photo this time. The text that I paste looks exactly like that done by Cowboy. I'll try in the morning now. My eyes are too tired to insure I'm not missing something different. I expect it to be operator error here, it happens that way sometimes. I intend to get Flickr straight before the new hosta season begins.

Today my new touchpad door locks were installed, The heavy cypress barn door installed, the bifold hall closet doors installed, new attic steps installed (pull down), all baseboards and all openings cased out. It is looking more like a house all the time! Remodel, not new build.

Okay, I'm ready to try again. Let me get the BBCode and put it here.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nG1BnA][img]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14236270960_06b3f15b22_z.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/nG1BnA]H. &#x27;Black Hills&#x27; - &#x27;Alex Summers&#x27; - &#x27;Manhattan&#x27;[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/55729546@N06/]moccasinlanding[/url], on Flickr

and now the URL link thingie. Which, I think is an awful pain in the ....desktop.

https://flic.kr/p/nG1BnA

Not the first URL, Mocc, but the one behind the [img] tag all the way through the .jpg part.

This is what you should be copying and pasting into the Photo window:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14236270960_06b3f15b22_z.jpg