Thread: Photo Hosting Sites

I wanted to post my pics in a larger size and decided on Photobucket for a host. They 'give' you some free space, along with a blizzard of advertising including pop ups. Then you must pay. Seems fair enough. Today I set about cleaning out Downloads and Photos on my computer and went to Photobucket to make some space there also. Yep, I deleted a bunch and they disappeared from SRP at the same moment. I was warned off the hosting sites because of this but I didn't think of it when I made room for more photos.
It's not that my pics are an integral part of the forum but I feel stupid and a little ashamed that I trashed up the site with what amounts to an obscene ad for Photobucket where there was once a photo.
Back to the small size. Sorry gents.

C'est la vie
You could post small photos on SRP and include in the post a link to a hosted photo album of the larger versions.

Jonathan

You can save photos to your own computer hard drive,, then SRP will upload them to the thread,,, these are actually rather large size. If your photo exceeds 1 meg,,, then reduce it on your computer by having the reduced size photos "saved as" in a temp file until SRP uploads them,,, then you can purge the temp file & still have the full size on your hard drive.

If you still want to "link" consider joining GOOGLE DRIVE,, it free up to a certain amount of storage,,, I have not complaints with GOOGLE Drive as a backup drive.

If you use Google to store your photos with a size adequate for sharing them online (eg here), you get free, unlimited storage. Otherwise, 15GB should be quite enough for some time. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6156103?hl=en, https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?hl=en and https://photos.google.com make for an incredibly powerful set of tools.

I don't think the size of the images hosted here is small. It's 700px x 700 px and it fits reasonably well with the forum layout on most people's desktops.
When inlining images from external source they still either get reduced to fit the layout by one's browser, they get cropped by the layout boundaries, or sometimes they mess the layout (it depends on the browser and on the particular vbulletin bugs at the time).

Of course, if you have large monitor with big resolution and extend your browser to use a lot of the space you may see big inlined pictures in their full size, but that is not what 80%-90% of the forum members see at all.

I consider myself fairly competent, so more often than not things are set up in a way that produces the best results. If they are not, I'm always more than happy to improve them.

I think some SOTD pics are too large and in contrast the default size uploaded by my computer looks smallish. I went to a photo hosting site to get a leetle bigger. I'm trying to fix things so I can upload a 1 MB intact which someone has suggested is the proper size. I can export close to a 1 MB pic but it shows up when I upload to the site as larger....frustrating but not entirely. I kind of welcome the challenge. I see several sizes on the SOTD. I'm looking for the mid-range uploaded from my Mac. Ain't there yet.

The size of the file depends on how complex the image is. The images hosted on SRP are resized to when first uploaded 700px x 700px (or if not square the largest dimension is 700px). A single color 700x700 image is much smaller file size than random noise of colors in the same 700x700 size. But it's still something on the order of a 100kB.

So, even if you upload a 20MB file all but 100kB will be discarded when the image is resized to 700x700.

Hosting a large image somewhere else and inlining it doesn't do much for most browsers as it ends up being rendered at 700px or less. What happens is that people are forced to download all 20MB and then process it on their computers by their browser to be rendered at much lower resolution. Essentially the same resizing job that could be done once on SRP on upload is now being done hundred and thousands of times when the page is loaded on each person's computer, plus they have to wait longer to download the file.

gugi
I'll try this one more time. I see a multitude of sizes of uploaded photos some the 'regular' size (700x700 I guess) and some ginormous. The ginormous ones and some of the larger ones are inlined (you hover a cursor and can click out to the hosting site). But there are sizes that are larger than the standard upload but are not inlined. Is that wholly dependent on the 'random noise of colors' in the pic?

Originally Posted by WW243

But there are sizes that are larger than the standard upload but are not inlined. Is that wholly dependent on the 'random noise of colors' in the pic?

I think there may be some confusion between the size of the file and the dimensions of the image.
Any image that is uploaded to SRP will end up with its largest dimension 700px or less which corresponds to file size to less than a 100kB or so.

It may be easier if you can point to some examples.

Originally Posted by gugi

I think there may be some confusion between the size of the file and the dimensions of the image.
Any image that is uploaded to SRP will end up with its largest dimension 700px or less which corresponds to file size to less than a 100kB or so.

It may be easier if you can point to some examples.

Within SOTD there are multiples sizes of pics. Some are inlined and this is confirmed by holding the cursor over the pic and clicking. You will be taken to the hosting site. Others in various sizes appear as well, some are in the 'standard' size and some are larger. Throw out the standard size and the ginormous pics or even large pics that have been inlined. How did they get the remaining pics to post?
Sorry my tech language is not very precise.