Just testing!
(https://i.imgur.com/k4RShwU.jpg)
Well the test worked :).
Yes it did! :)
SYW game from some years ago, Hanoverian and British infantry storming a Palatinate held village.
Cheers Paul
look nice
Lovely looking figures.
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:-bd =D> :-bd
SYW for the gold!
Very nice indeed. :)
Cheers - Phil
Very attractive game and figures. Bravo Zulu!
Incidentally, what were you testing.
Hi John
Just putting photos on the website correctly.
Cheers Paul
Quote from: T13A on 11 July 2020, 05:54:33 PM
Hi John
Just putting photos on the website correctly.
Cheers Paul
What program are you using and how do you do it. I have Flickr but how to include a pic in a post is beyond me.
Hi John
I set up an 'Imgur' account as suggested by MMCV, see thread: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,19938.0.html
It was all pretty easy even for me and that is saying something! 8)
Cheers Paul
Thanks very much. That is helpful. I'll have a look at the thread.
I had a look at Imgur but it made next to no sense to me. It seems so user unfriendly that even a ten year old would have a problem with it! I'm sure it's me - I think I'm allergic to the 21st Century. Thanks anyway.
Quote from: John Cook on 15 July 2020, 02:36:24 AM
I had a look at Imgur but it made next to no sense to me. It seems so user unfriendly that even a ten year old would have a problem with it! I'm sure it's me - I think I'm allergic to the 21st Century. Thanks anyway.
Hi John, are you using your phone/tablet or computer for it? Are your photos on your phone or computer?
Imgur is an image sharing site that people use for funny images etc publicly, but it allows you to make "hidden" posts which don't appear on the public pages but you can still link to the images.
I usually have photos on my phone so it's a pretty quick process, but uploading from computer is fairly similar. It may seem a bit odds at first but once you do ia couple of times it's reasonably painless.
The chaps have moved me over to using Imgur, it works great on an iPhone. It's a bit counter intuitive to start with - as you don't care about all the memes and other stuff. But once you realise how to make a new post with it (even though you aren't posting anywhere) then it is a very quick and easy way to take a photo with your phone, do some basic editing, post it to Imgur, grab the link and post it on the forum. Yes its a few steps, but they are all quick and easy.
The only downside to Imgur is that you don't get a gallery of your photos like you do on the photo hosting sites, which I do find can be useful for browsing stuff at a late date.
I've found that depending on what device you are using for photos and for posting then different bits of software can be a lot easier to use than others.
Thanks for the help and advice. I will persevere. I have an iPhone but I don't keep photos on it and have only used it occasionally for photographs. I'm one of those odd people who uses a phone for, essentially, telephone calls and a camera for taking photographs :-)
Using a phone for phone calls :o :o
Its all about finding a work flow that works for you, if you prefer a camera for taking photos, you have to have some process to get them off the camera - most likely by transferring the photos to a PC, either by USB cable or by swapping the SD card between devices - once you have done this then you probably upload them to a hosting site - and there are lots of these, its finding one that works for you, and most importantly gives you an easy link to copy into the forum.
For a long time I did the above and used Google Photos and it worked well. But more recently I have moved to taking all my photos (pretty much) with my iPhone as it just makes the whole process so much easier (and therefore I am more likely to take photos and post them). But this made me change from Google photos as it was just hard work to get a link when posting from my phone. Along with the random issues with photos not always being visible - which seemed to depend on which link you copied, without it ever being quite clear why some worked and some didn't.
Bottom line is that there are a lot of ways of getting photos onto the forum, and different ones work better for how each of us is setup and how we expect the process to work.
Quote from: fred. on 15 July 2020, 04:59:54 PM
The only downside to Imgur is that you don't get a gallery of your photos like you do on the photo hosting sites, which I do find can be useful for browsing stuff at a late date.
You can access a gallery view of all images on the web version of it. Don't think you can do it in the app (I can't find it) but if you access it from a bigger screen (or phone in "desktop mode") using the website and click on your name in the top right there'll be an "images" option you can see them all. Think you can upload images that way too, though I tend to just use the posts option from the app as it's easier.
(https://i.imgur.com/CVBnCWq.png)
That page actually let's you resize the images etc too, and I think copy it with the img tags already, though I rarely use it as the additional faff of switching between the phone and booting up the laptop isn't worth it most of the time.
You can view your old posts in the app though so that's usually enough for my needs.
Quote from: John Cook on 15 July 2020, 05:21:40 PM
Thanks for the help and advice. I will persevere. I have an iPhone but I don't keep photos on it and have only used it occasionally for photographs. I'm one of those odd people who uses a phone for, essentially, telephone calls and a camera for taking photographs :-)
If you've your photos on the computer and just looking to upload from there it's pretty handy, as I mentioned above there's an images page you can upload and resize from, then you just need to copy the image link (the one ending in .jpg or .png usually) and stick it in here and apply the img tags (highlight it and click the img button above the :D ;D faces at the top of posting)
Then if you haven't resized it on the site you can resize it here by adding a height or width or both, e.g.
[img width=800]https://i.imgur.com/CVBnCWq.png[/img]
[img height=800]https://i.imgur.com/CVBnCWq.png[/img]
I usually just do height or width as it'll automatically set the other one and keep the aspect ratio so it doesn't look stretched or squished!
Hope that helps a bit!
Thanks for all of these helpful replies. I will keep playing with various options. I find that photos taken on my iPhone 6 just don't cut the mustard. My digital SLR is so much more versatile and produces much better imagery, though it is a bit of a lump. Even my ten year old Sony compact takes better pics than the iPhone. I've just bought a new Sony Cybershot with Wi-Fi functionality which I'm getting used to, and seems to the easy answer to linking to other devices, though I've never found downloading to my PC via a USB cable much of a challenge.
I really need to sort an Imgur a/c out....one day/never
Like John, I use my camera for taking photos....and the phone for making 'emergency' calls to the AA....the only time it's ever been used !
My phone's so ancient it hasn't even GOT a camera. (I must sort the phone out, as well !......I think it's been 'cut off' because I haven't used it for so long.)
Cheers - Phil
Hi John
It looks as if I was in a similar position to you, I use a 'normal' camera to take photos of games/figures and store them on my PC. I simply wanted an easy way to get the images from my PC onto a post on the forum and Imgur seems to work for me, so far at least.
(https://i.imgur.com/Y8nzSHx.jpg)
It took me about 2 minutes to post the above photo from my PC onto Imgur and then onto here.
Cheers Paul
Nice looking ACW game, btw. :-bd
It certainly is ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Lovely looking game! I'm busy trying to reduce my ACW lead pile - will try and post some pics shortly.
Cheers!
Great looking table!
Good looking game and pic. Thanks for the advice. I'll have to persevere with Imgur. I'm pleased somebody else still uses a proper camera.
Yes.....But do you know what really pees me off, John ;)....And I do know I've gone on and on and on about this....Forbes (fred) gets far better bl**dy results from his phone than I do from my all singing, all dancing, digital Canon SLR.....(Piece of poo ;)).....It can't even focus on 'infinity' properly.
It probably cost a lot more than a decent iPhone.....and it's only job is to take bloomin' pictures.
I DID like my old 35mm Pentax ME Super......and the amazing kit I used when I worked for the Evil Empire.
One of those lenses from that era, cost £800...and that was back in 1988/9 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I miss* my old film SLR. I've never really "got" digital photography - it just doesn't seem the same somehow.
* Well, it's not missing, it's still in my cupboard. But it hasn't been used for years
Same here, Martyn.
The Pentax is still in its 'bag', with all the accessories.
I really loved that camera.....I could make it do "what I wanted".
I've never been bothered to learn how to use the digital Canon SLR really properly......It has the facility to do about ten times more than I'd ever need.
I DO have ,what I'd describe as, a compact digital (Pentax, again) camera, as well as the 'lumpy' Canon.
The little Pentax was/is great......(I really need to charge the battery, though.).......Not SO many features.....More than enough in the way of 'pixels'.....So Why do I need a billion times more pixels on the Canon......If it can't even focus on Infinity....or properly...it seems X_X
It appears that a camera on a lot of the new phones is WAY better than enough.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Great looking game Paul - but can I have my step ladders back ?
Quote from: Techno on 16 July 2020, 02:11:21 PM
Yes.....But do you know what really pees me off, John ;)....And I do know I've gone on and on and on about this....Forbes (fred) gets far better bl**dy results from his phone than I do from my all singing, all dancing, digital Canon SLR.....(Piece of poo ;)).....It can't even focus on 'infinity' properly.
I do have a Canon 450D DSLR with a few lenses - which may in total have cost a bit more than a newish iPhone (which is quite something to write). But I rarely use it - the only time I think I get better shots is when I want a lot of depth of field, and then I need to spend time with the whole tripod, light box, camera setup. Then get the photos on the computer, and do lots of cropping etc. So if this is all I used I'd never take photos.
The one thing I 'invested' in earlier this year was a £40 LED light, typically sold for video camera work, that really helps light up the photos of figures I take on my painting desk.
By using my phone, I take more photos - as they say the best camera is the one you have with you, and my phone is always in my pocket. Whereas the DSLR is in a nice camera bag upstairs in a corner...
Same here. I have a battered old Olympus OM1 bought in 1974 which I dragged round the world with me for 25 years, together with lenses from 300mm to 21mm, which I doubt you could give away now. I replaced it with an Olympus E620 DSLR in 2009 which takes that are, in my view, not as good as those taken with my OM1. I can remember when people argued that 35mm was for amateurs, that 'proper' photographers wouldn't be seen dead with an SLR and a Rollei or Hasselblad were the only cameras worthy of the name.
My Sony Cybershot, which must be at least 15 years old now, takes pics that are every bit as good as the Olympus E620, it is no bigger than a packet of fags (No, I gave up in the 1980s) so that is the one I use most of the time, unless I'm photographing motorsport, then the E620 is much more capable, and you can do a lot with Photoshop. The camera on my iPhone 6 is, frankly, **** but I'm told the latest iterations of smart phones are better and the fact that Olympus have folded because "the digital camera market is no longer profitable" speaks volumes.
Quote from: John Cook on 16 July 2020, 07:12:59 PM
Same here. I have a battered old Olympus OM1 bought in 1974 which I dragged round the world with me for 25 years, together with lenses from 300mm to 21mm, which I doubt you could give away now.
I sold an 1980s OM10 last year with various bits, and was surprised to get around £75 for it - I think the buyer was a camera shop, but to get to that price there must have been a few buyers interested in it. For something that was just taking up space I was quite pleased with that - I was expecting about £10