Photos and Links

[richardfinegold]

I use an iPhone to post here. How does one place a photo or a link here from iOS?

[french frank]

I use an iPhone to post here. How does one place a photo or a link here from iOS?

You first need a link to a photo already somewhere on the internet - a filesharing app or another site with, usually, a jpeg or png image - and copy the image url. Then on the various icons (font, size &c) above your post window, click on the image (IMG) icon (7th from the right) and fill in the url of the image on the pop-up. You can't upload directly from a computer or phone.

For a link it's the 9th icon from the right for the pop-up.

[AuntDaisy]

Sorry, I'm not an iPhone user... But, following on from French Frank's helpful information, you could use IMGBB. There are instructions on this post.

[Nick Armstrong]

There are instructions on this post.

Ummm, that link takes me to a thread about Derek Solomons’s Haydn…

[Nick Armstrong]

I use an iPhone to post here. How does one place a photo or a link here from iOS?

I only use an iPhone too.

I’ll try and set out my approach when I get a moment later

[AuntDaisy]

Ummm, that link takes me to a thread about Derek Solomons’s Haydn…

It does Roger Webb was asking how to upload a baryton photo...

Here's a cut-and-paste version of my reply to his post - but I'm sure, Nick, that your iPhone instructions will be much more relevant & useful.

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[Roger], the forum needs a link (URL) to a hosted image.
I'm using IMGBB to upload photos - it's free and will keep them online for you (or be deleted after a time).

Go to their website, https://imgbb.com/, click on "Start Uploading", tell it which image you want to upload... finally choose "BBcode fully linked" and copy the URL which you can paste directly in to your forum post.

The BBcode (Bulletin board code) will look something like this:

[url=https://imgbb.com/][img]https://i.ibb.co/BTWnJbq/2024-06-13-Image.png[/img][/url]

Or, you can use the insert "Image" button if you just want to use the URL for the image from their BBcode, it looks something like this:

https://i.ibb.co/BTWnJbq/2024-06-13-Image.png

[Nick Armstrong]

I use an iPhone to post here. How does one place a photo or a link here from iOS?

I’ll try and explain the steps using screenshots from my phone…

1. Find your uploading site - this is the search I use and as others have said the first result ImgBB is the easiest one to use, I’ve found:



2. When you open ImgBB, click the ‘Start Uploading’ button - a selection opens and I always choose the first as any pic I want to upload I’ll have saved to my Photos in the phone first:



3. Having selected the photo you want, just click the green ‘upload’ button:



4. When the picture has been uploaded, you then have another choice, of ‘embed code’ - you need to select ‘BBCode full linked’:



5. Just copy that link and paste it into your Forum post.

6. Use the ‘preview’ function under your Forum draft to check all is well before posting. Sometimes you may find that some extraneous red text appears just under your image, copied over with the code from ImgBB - just delete it, it seems to be some form of advertising…

Hope the above is clear Do ask if not!

[Maclintick]

Sorry, I'm not an iPhone user... But, following on from French Frank's helpful information, you could use IMGBB.

IMGBB is a good recommendation, Aunt Daisy. I switched to IMGBB when IMGUR refused to cooperate for some reason, and it's very easy to use. Also the custom-sizing options on the FoR3 upload page are very useful, as is Nick's Armstrong's excellent guide (which I've just now seen)

[richardfinegold]

I’ll try and explain the steps using screenshots from my phone…

1. Find your uploading site - this is the search I use and as others have said the first result ImgBB is the easiest one to use, I’ve found:



2. When you open ImgBB, click the ‘Start Uploading’ button - a selection opens and I always choose the first as any pic I want to upload I’ll have saved to my Photos in the phone first:



3. Having selected the photo you want, just click the green ‘upload’ button:



4. When the picture has been uploaded, you then have another choice, of ‘embed code’ - you need to select ‘BBCode full linked’:



5. Just copy that link and paste it into your Forum post.

6. Use the ‘preview’ function under your Forum draft to check all is well before posting. Sometimes you may find that some extraneous red text appears just under your image, copied over with the code from ImgBB - just delete it, it seems to be some form of advertising…

Hope the above is clear Do ask if not!

Thanks for all that. We got home late last night and I have a full plate today, including the CSO tonight, so sometime this weekend I will give around to it. I also have a friend who is trying to send me a public domain audio file that won’t download so it will be a tech filled weekend for me!

[richardfinegold]

This is a bridge too far for me. On the Forum Link there are multiple question boxes before one even gets to the box asking for the URL and I don’t know what is required here. And then when I tap the add URL box to try and drop the IMgg URL nothing happens. An hour and a half just went by the wayside. Thanks anyway to those that tried to assist me

[Pulcinella]

This is a bridge too far for me. On the Forum Link there are multiple question boxes before one even gets to the box asking for the URL and I don’t know what is required here. And then when I tap the add URL box to try and drop the IMgg URL nothing happens. An hour and a half just went by the wayside. Thanks anyway to those that tried to assist me

Nearly long enough to listen to a Handel opera.


I had similar problems with previous attempts (but must admit to not having tried Nick's method) so asked ff to kindly upload a photo for me recently.
And before that, ts ably came to the rescue.

[french frank]

This is a bridge too far for me. On the Forum Link there are multiple question boxes before one even gets to the box asking for the URL

Not if you're clicking on the correct icon.



All you do is paste the url (which fills in the size of your image automatically), click on OK and write your message. The worst that will happen is that the image will either be enormous or very small, both adjustable. You don't have to drop the image in.

[richardfinegold]

thats not the screen that I get when I check the image box. Are you using an iOS?

[richardfinegold]

https://ibb.co/Y4CWTr3This is from a MacBook Pro

[richardfinegold]

So I guess I will just use the laptop when I want to link something. The Imbb screen on the iphone doesnt seem to be stable at least on my phone. It keeps jumping around, resizing, and doing other odd gymnastics

the image above is the FLW string quartet stand that I referenced in another post