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Old 18-01-14, 23:02
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I have noticed that some people are able to place photos within the text of a thread. I would like to do that sometimes but do not know how. I go to Manage Attachments to add photos and my photos are shows as thumbnails below the text to be viewed separately.

I am about to start a long thread on the full restoration of my Canadian Ford Lynx II Mk.III, and I thought the inclusion of the photos within the text would be a better reading option.

Thanks Rick.
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Old 18-01-14, 23:50
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I have noticed that some people are able to place photos within the text of a thread. I would like to do that sometimes but do not know how. I go to Manage Attachments to add photos and my photos are shows as thumbnails below the text to be viewed separately.

I am about to start a long thread on the full restoration of my Canadian Ford Lynx II Mk.III, and I thought the inclusion of the photos within the text would be a better reading option.

Thanks Rick.
Rick,
You need to upload your photos to an on-line server (flicker or your own website) and then include the image URL.
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Old 19-01-14, 00:27
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The trouble with Fliker and Photobucket is if the account ends then the pictures disappear. If you do like you've been doing they'll be there as long as there's a MLU forum.
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Old 19-01-14, 00:38
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Cletrac I agree with you, i just started posting photos here for that reason

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Old 23-01-14, 22:30
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The trouble with Fliker and Photobucket is if the account ends then the pictures disappear. If you do like you've been doing they'll be there as long as there's a MLU forum.
I use both the forum manage attachments and Photobucket. The reason is that there are some photos that you are likely to use on multiple forums so you only have to upload once. (e.g. the F5 Inter wrecker posted in the Euan's Grampians fire thread.)

Photobucket is a free service and I have never heard of an acount ending unless it was closed by the member.

There is a risk that Photobucket will censor and delete photos. e.g. I posted an image of a Nazi flag captured by an Australian Engineer serving in Europe during WWII (my housemate's grandfather). This was a genuine artifact but was deleted because it portrayed an image of hate.
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I agree with Hanno that we should avoid external image hosting where possible, because it's not wholly within our control, and as such represents a challenge to the integrity of this site. I'm thinking particularly of Hanno himself here, who has had to do a lot of work on older threads, which contain valuable information for us all. I think the enlarged thumbnails he has now introduced are a huge improvement, which for all practical purposes renders externally hosted images obsolete - even with my own failing eyesight!
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Old 30-01-14, 13:35
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here's the real picture of what he was doing.
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Old 19-01-14, 10:56
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I have noticed that some people are able to place photos within the text of a thread. I would like to do that sometimes but do not know how. I go to Manage Attachments to add photos and my photos are shows as thumbnails below the text to be viewed separately.

I am about to start a long thread on the full restoration of my Canadian Ford Lynx II Mk.III, and I thought the inclusion of the photos within the text would be a better reading option.
Rick,

This has been a question for me for a long time as well, see Message Editor Interface settings?

Thankfully, Anthony came up with the answer:
  1. Click on Post Reply
  2. Type you text
  3. Click on the paperclip button on the tool bar above the Message window
  4. The popup screen Manage Attachments opens: select your picture and click on Upload and then Close this window
  5. Click on the paperclip button again and a small window will pop up for you to click on the insert (all) button.
Try it for yourself a few times, I can always delete your tests.

PS: I have updated the Posting Images thread in the Forum Readme section.

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Old 19-01-14, 12:23
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Thanks Hanno,

Here's a test.

Lynx restoration Begins 002.jpg

Lynx restoration Begins 008.jpg


Rick.

Well that seems to work. The photo opened up in an additional window not like the usual way.

Thanks Hanno, I'll start my new restoration thread soon.

Regards Rick.
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Old 19-01-14, 14:53
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testing....


TONY4351 - Copy - Copy.jpg

pic 1.

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pic 2.

TONY6179 - Copy - Copy.jpg

pic 3.

TONY6181 - Copy - Copy.jpg

pic 4.

TONY7428 - Copy - Copy.jpg

pic 5.


fingers crossed....
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Old 19-01-14, 15:06
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Awesome!! I've been trying to do this for ages! Many thanks Anthony and Hanno.

Pity we can only do thumbnails, but I agree we should avoid remote hosting for images. It's extremely frustrating when they disappear.
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Old 19-01-14, 21:44
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Awesome!! I've been trying to do this for ages! Many thanks Anthony and Hanno.

Pity we can only do thumbnails, but I agree we should avoid remote hosting for images. It's extremely frustrating when they disappear.
Have just reset the thumbnail width from 150 to 300 pixels, the database is updating now so it will be a while before the resizing becomes visible.

Let's see how this works out for visual satisfaction versus storage & bandwidth usage...

Now for trying to find the feature to switch off external image linking

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