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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:04 pm    Post subject: Flickr Reply with quote

Can someone tell me how you get a photo from Flickr onto your thread on this forum? I can do it easily with photobucket but must be missing something simple as i just can't see how to do it.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It just so happens that I was trying this today for the first time and found that if you click the 'share this image' button and select 'Embed'; then you can copy the img src URL.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's explained Here
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote




Thanks for your replies everyone. After much head scratching I have achieved success. But isn't there a size between 500x264 and 1024 x 541? This looks very small. Also, I am not nimble fingered enough to do all that "image/bracket" fiddling each time. I think I'll stick to Photobucket. Sad

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's fiddly but that looks a lot nicer than the photobucket ones - much less compression
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too fiddly for me I'm afraid. Not quick enough on the keyboard!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the neepster wrote:
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Well done, I spent ages looking for that link and didn't find it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It certainly would be helpful if Flickr could provide a link to use on forums wouldn't it!

Creators - I was given the link to that thread when I first started posting here  (thanks again Hil!) and so I looked through my old posts to find it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll write to them and perhaps if several of us did so it might happen. Going through the process of making sure there is a back link is a pain.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Testing a little greasemonkey script here



Useful for those of you using firefox??

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6178
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you explain a bit more please? I've got Greasemonkey but don't understand how to use it apart from it letting people know how you came across their page when you comment.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well... there are hundreds of different scripts that are written to go along with greasemonkey - I don't know the full ins and outs but I just click the Install button and it does it for me.

There is a useful group on Flickr discussing these 'hacks' and so I'm going to post the link rather than try to explain it http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/ - hope that's ok.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you. I can't navigate there at the moment, I just don't understand what is wrong with my browser/computer/whatever. I have three computers, two are fine and navigate and browse with no problem. The main one just hangs and it's driving me nuts. I've just removed and reinstalled Firefox to see if that solved it. Nope, and Internet Explorer is worse. Grahhhhhhhh!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

how strange!

I've started using Flock as a browser... powered by firefox it fully integrates with flickr and makes keeping up with your contacts a lot easier. It sounds like it's something to do with your computer though rather than your browser.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, yes I think I may have found the problem. I just went for a reboot and an error message came up "UiPopupHidden is not responding, end program" From a quick look on the web this is malware. I am trying to get rid of it now.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'll write to them and perhaps if several of us did so it might happen. Going through the process of making sure there is a back link is a pain.


I wrote to them some time ago now - hopefully if people keep asking, they'll do something about it
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

derek wrote:
Too fiddly for me I'm afraid. Not quick enough on the keyboard!


derek, you don't need to go through the whole process, the one explained allows users to link back to your image on flickr, but the easiest way is to use the

"Grab the photos URL" - box 2 below your image.

then copy the contents of this box and paste between img  and /img tabs. Square brackets omitted here, but will be needed in order for it to work.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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derek wrote:
Too fiddly for me I'm afraid. Not quick enough on the keyboard!


derek, you don't need to go through the whole process, the one explained allows users to link back to your image on flickr, but the easiest way is to use the

"Grab the photos URL" - box 2 below your image.

then copy the contents of this box and paste between img  and /img tabs. Square brackets omitted here, but will be needed in order for it to work.


thanks for that but it's so much easier to click the copy image code button in photobucket, especially when you have several you want to post up. and having tried flickr, i'm not keen on the choice of sizes. i'll have to put up with the slight reduction in quality.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hil26 wrote:
"Grab the photos URL" - box 2 below your image.

then copy the contents of this box and paste between img  and /img tabs. Square brackets omitted here, but will be needed in order for it to work.


Except as previously mentioned, that is in breach of flickr's t&cs. If you've got a free account that's no big deal, but if you've just paid for 12 months of pro usage, then getting your account suspended for breaching the terms could be a little irritating
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oops, thanks for reminding me JOn, had totally forgotten about that aspect.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bump - Creators, have you worked out the greasemonkey script thing? It's made life so much easier for me since I downloaded it - adding a Flickr pic to a forum is now a simple mouseclick procedure.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, thanks for remembering and for the reminder. Nope, I am absolutely clueless and I'd forgotten all about it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

keith - its painless, install the script, make sure Greasemonkey is running, go to all sizes for the image and the code box will have changed. Click on the [] icon and the script auto changes to the code required for the forum, copy and paste to thread on forum -
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave, I had got to the install the script bit and it worked and I was just staring to the new box in a vacant sort of way, when your post appeared with the last piece of the jigsaw. Part of the problem had been that I have Firefox 3 and some addons don't work in that yet. But it is now stunningly, brilliantly, fabulously WORKING! My thanks to you and Shirley for your help.  wav



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