prob posting pics on forum with flickr.com

[jinxy72]

hope ive put this in the right section .. but ive read the how to guide but still no luck ... when ever i try and post pics on the forum via flickr.com it dont work and i just get the img box's . end up just putting the links .... anyone any idea what im doing wrong ? or is it flickr.com ?

 

[BigYin]

have you sorted this?

If you can post up all the details (i.e. the link you are using) I'll see if I can help :thumb:

 

[jinxy72]

not sorted yet m8 .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jinxy72/6069582556/

the above link was put inbetween the IMG brackets .... and all i get is the 'image' above .... ive tried with the normal url and the short url .. dont make any difference at all

 

[BigYin]

You need to find a link that ends in .jpg for the IMG tags to work. :thumb:

 

[jack]

Have a go on photobucket you just upload you picture then copy and paste the img code thing its really easy :thumb:

 

[JagCrusher]

Depends which browser you use... I only use Chrome :thumb:

Right click yer image and select 'inspect element'.
Copy the line that begins <img... ...jpg">
Paste it into another Chrome tab.
Remove the

bit at the end. Paste the remainder inbetween the boxes when posting a reply.

I get the impression that Flickr doesn't want anybody to view [i]their[/i] images anywhere other than on [i]their[/i] website :roll:

Try using Fotki for image hosting (please don't use Photobucket!)

 

[BigYin]

not sorted yet m8 .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jinxy72/6069582556/

the above link was put inbetween the IMG brackets .... and all i get is the 'image' above .... ive tried with the normal url and the short url .. dont make any difference at all

Flickr are being right sods - you used to click on Share, and you'd get a much bigger dropdown, and that would include the option to grab a link in either html or BB code - the BB one works best on forums.

 

[BigYin]

Depends which browser you use... I only use Chrome :thumb:

Right click yer image and select 'inspect element'.

interesting - in Firefox the right click just brings up a copyright notice!

 

[Aleman]

Depends which browser you use... I only use Chrome :thumb:
Right click yer image and select 'inspect element'.

interesting - in Firefox the right click just brings up a copyright notice!

I noticed that, If you right click on the page rather than the image you can choose to View page source then there is a line in there that starts <link rel="image_src" href=" . . . . . "> if you copy out the stuff (url) between the quotes in the href and then post it between the {img]{/img] tags you get

which is at least something . . . I also used Firebug in Firefox to get it by using the inspect element and delving into the div tags . . .but if you are not into web development it's not really an intuitive option . . . that gave me

I think flickr have a) decided to 'protect' copyright of images posted, b) reduce bandwidth usage from non flickr sites, c) just decided that they are not a photo sharing website any more.

It's for this reason among others that I decided that putting my images on my webspace gave me control on who gets to them and how I share them . . . Espcially as links on forums . . .although I have on one forum been told NOT to share a link but to post directly, different forums different ways.

 

[jinxy72]

IMG_0142 by jinxy72, on Flickr

cracked it :thumb: .. did find the bb code and used that and didnt select the 'img' off the forum just posted code given .... cheers all :thumb: :