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Originally posted by Northman56751:
Hmmmmmmm.......PB is still letting me post. Does one have to be over a certain capacity before it shuts you down? Have never upgraded. My account shows 12%.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
I have tried every way I can to get imgur to work, using both the app and the direct website. Can't get either one to work properly.

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Originally posted by Hannay:
For what it's worth, after my last experience with Photobucket, where I was barely able to upload photos due to all the ads, I looked around and decided to try imgur.com.

This afternoon, I just replaced by trip report photos hosted at Photobucket with photos hosted at imgur.com.

From what I can see, the advantages to imgur is that there are no ads (that I saw), it has a very uncluttered interface, and changing out my links to Photobucket pictures was "relatively easy" (Your mileage may vary.) Oh yes, it's free.

If there are disadvantages, I'd be glad to hear about them.

For what it's worth, here's a short tutorial based on my experience today. This might help you if you want to give it a try. Or not.

The steps were something like:
1. Login to imgur.com with my Google account.
2. Create a new album.
3. Drag and drop the photos to upload them. (All done from my desktop computer; I have not looked to see what is possible with phone apps.)
4. Resize each photo to a width of 1024 pixels. I did this on the web interface rather than resizing the photos before I uploaded them. If I was using a slow internet connection, I might resize the photos first.

Then, from accuratereloading.com, I:
6. Opened my post. and pressed the edit button.
7. I selected and copied all the text from my post to notepad.

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The BBCode image tags are obtained by hovering the mouse over your photo and clicking on the down caret, then choosing "Get share links"



That will give you this choice; click on "BBCode (Forums)"


Then, paste the image tag into your text file and replace the Photobucket image tag.

9. When I was done replacing all the BBCode image tags that pointed to Photobucket with new ones that pointed to imgur.com, I copied the entire revised text and pasted it into the edit window, replacing the old text.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
That looks familiar
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/...776590/413446132.jpg
This is a similar failed test with picturetrail

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I was at 3%

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Originally posted by Hannay:
larryshores mentioned he had problems resizing the photos (perhaps because he is trying to do it from his phone? I couldn't find a way to resize from the Android app); jdollar is having problems getting the BBcode to appear as an image.

You can see your photos in imgur.com from your gallery (where all your photos are shown) or from an album (if you are organizing your photos in albums). Depending on which way you get to your photo, the approach for controlling the size and getting the link is slightly different. So here is an explanation for doing this from a web browser; I'm using Firefox on a PC; maybe I'll record another video later. You'll want to choose either Step 1 (From the album) or Step 2 (From all your images), then Step 3.

Step 1. From the album

When you hover your mouse over the picture, a few buttons appear in the upper right hand corner of the image. Press the circled one:



If you haven't already resized your photos, choose "Edit Image"; your image will appear inside a window with several editing options; it comes up with Crop / Resize selected. In the upper right hand corner, you will see the size of the photo (circled) given as width x height in pixels:


IMO, somewhere between 1024 and 1280 is about right. If you just set the width and leave the "lock proportions" box checked, it will calculate the height. I believe the problem that has been mentioned with sizing is that if the original photo comes straight from a modern digital camera, the size may be over 4000 pixels wide.

Then,Save the resized image, and you will return to the photo; press the down arrow again, and choose " Get Share Links":



The press the Copy button next to BBCode (Forums)



Skip to Step 3.

2. From the Gallery

If you just choose images from the main menu (under your user name) you'll see all your photos as small thumbnails. Just click on the one you want to upload, or click on any photo, and scroll through the images individually. When you get to the one you want to post, it will appear like so:



You need to do two things:
a. Choose the size in the lower right hand corner. I suggest either Large Thumbnail.
or Huge Thumbnail
b. Click the Copy button next under "BBCode (Message Boards & Forums)"



Go to Step 3.

3. Paste into your forum post

Whichever step above you've followed, you should end up with the BBCode in your paste buffer. So, all you need to do is paste it into the edit window with Control-V:



Don't use the image button that I x'ed out.

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I hope this helps.