Quintus Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 An unfortunate and somewhat macabre juxtaposition on my BBC news feed this morning... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Eek! How did you manage to post the image, Quintus? I've not yet managed it, and was wondering if my photos of Marquez's farewell were decent enough to post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Eek! How did you manage to post the image, Quintus? I've not yet managed it, and was wondering if my photos of Marquez's farewell were decent enough to post. Click on the "image" button (below the smiley face) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 (edited) .....as Bangorballetboy says, and remembering that you need to have uploaded your images onto an internet photo hosting site first, as opposed to trying to load them here directly from your hard drive Edited October 24, 2016 by Quintus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 So, I've still got to stick them on imgur or somewhere first. That's what I suspected. Thanks, both of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Okay, I tried that earlier, but just got the message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Okay, I tried that earlier, but just got the message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." check your url ends in .jpg rather than .jpeg the link you paste into the box should look something like http://i.imgur.com/robertafinal.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 An unfortunate and somewhat macabre juxtaposition on my BBC news feed this morning... Quintus, I hope you have sent that straight to Private Eye!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 check your url ends in .jpg rather than .jpeg the link you paste into the box should look something like http://i.imgur.com/robertafinal.jpg Thanks, Quintus, but there is no file extension at all on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 well there's your problem then, it's not recognisable as a valid image file.. edit and save it as a jpg, with a .jpg extension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 But that's how they *are* saved ... :shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 I do lots of photo editing, and an extension-less image file sounds like an error to me. operating systems work by associating programs to file extensions, and only file folders have no extension, so a file with no extension is a typically rogue that cannot be handled (unless you consciously trick the system). how are you creating these files Alison? if they are coming straight off a phone or amateur camera they will usually already be .jpg files. if you are editing them subsequently and saving them, then depending on the editor you should be choosing a format (tiff, jpg etc) and the save dialogue box should show you the name of the file including its extension that will be created (which is your chance to correct it if it looks odd). you might also be introducing the error when uploading them onto imagur or wherever, where you need to check the upload dialogue box is going to preserve whatever extension they had. other remote possibility is that you are trying to load a folder rather than a single file.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 No, Quintus, they're perfectly normal .jpg files, and I guess imgur does what it usually does with them when you upload them, whatever that may be. It produces a URL which you then C&P as necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 (edited) I use photobucket; I'll open an imgur account and have a play Edited October 29, 2016 by Quintus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 ah, I can see what might have happened. I just loaded the pic below (from yesterday's stroll round Camden...) with no problem: when you click on the image in imgur, it brings up on a whole variety of links you can copy for various purpose (as on the pic below). The one you want is NOT 'image link', which has no extension, but rather 'DIRECT LINK' which shows the .jpg. You choose your image size at the bottom, then copy that Direct Link URL ; then just click on the green square icon in the toolbar on on the dialogue box in the forum and paste the URL in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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