Graphics trick for inline images that were on your Hard Disk

[Vivek]

I'm new here, hence I'm sure almost everyone already knows this trick that I stumbled upon

to host a graphic from my hard disk

A) I press "Add image to post" 
and upload the image to POST IMAGE

and I get a thumbnail like this in my post




But I want a huge inline image

So I copy the postimg Image URL and paste it into a new tab
and get my image with a lot of stuff from POST IMAGE

I right click my image and say "Open image in new tab"

I get a new tab with only my image and no words from POST IMAGE. It has a different URL. I copy that URL and paste it on top of the original URL that Post image was trying to build up for me initially.

Then I get a huge inline image as follows

[duck_arse]

Vivek! - think of the scrollers! not everyone has a wall sized screen on which to view "a huge inline image". this then means scrolling, and people very quickly loose interest if they have to do 4 and 5 scrolls to the bottom of the image just to reach the left/right scroller, and another 3 or 4 scrolls to get to the right edge. and sometimes, they find they want to see the middle of the image ....... many more scrolls ,,,,,,, gah! close page, next topic.

and. so. seeing as you are messing with the codes already [same method I go through when doing postimgs] - to your image tags, add height=xxx [or width] and your original image displays smaller. if you wrap that image with a link anchor, and use the full size image as the url, the user can then see the full image without scrolls, and click thru to a new page with the image only.

hit quote and you can see what I did. there is a way to use the smallered image to get the largerer full image in the page, but I can't remember it. ask bluebunny, maybe, he is a wizz. whizz?

[Vivek]

Thanks Duck !!!

[davent]

Doesn't postimage have the option of picking the size you want your image to appear as in a forum post?


dave

[Vivek]

Test

https://www.digitalmasters.com.au/Calibration_Print_Adobe_RGB.jpg

Normal Thumbnail made by Postimg


100



200



400



650

[duck_arse]

400's yer man.

odd - I tried just like your code, and the image didn't stay in page. I musta dunnit rong.

[davent]

On my small laptop the 650 still has all kinds of room on the sides but height wise a bit much. On another site that i had to size the pictures for posts, they hosted photos, 600pixels high, 800 pixels wide were the max for a none scrolling image with my laptop.

I stopped using postimage as a third party host because after you have so many images there, they compress the pictures you post to forums so they look like crap at any size bigger than a thumbnail unless of course you pay for a premium account. You can click the thumbnail to get to an uncompressed image but that completely defeats the purpose of putting the picture in the post in the first place.

Like duck said about scrolling, same reaction, having to go off forum to see a reasonable size image, you just stop and move on.

Currently using Imgur and as so far no issues, based on every other hosting site i've used, not holding my breath.

dave

[Marcos - Munky]

I personally prefer the normal postimage thumbnail size, then click to open the image full size. It's easier to use because I just have to copy/paste the code

[Vivek]

I personally prefer the normal postimage thumbnail size, then click to open the image full size. It's easier to use because I just have to copy/paste the code

The issue is that the normal thumbnail leads to a page with lots of words/menu from postimage.

The trick I was trying to explain avoids that

Please see the difference between these three thumbnails when you click on them


Normal Thumbnail made by Postimg. It opens a new tab with lots of POSTIMAGE stuff on it



Special Thumbnail that expands / contracts in place
140  ( please click on this, have a look and then click again)



This thumbnail opens a new tab with the full picture WITHOUT POSTIMAGE stuff

[PRR]

> normal thumbnail leads to a page with lots of words/menu from postimage.

This service is free. They are entitled to some kickback for that.

As for size: learn to use image re-size and color-depth tools. Yes, your three women may need 65k+ colors. But the ElectroSmash image is only 5 colors on the eye, yet has been jpg-ed out to 18k colors. (JPEG is usually the wrong choice for line-drawing.) An image that is really only a dozen lines may not need to be 1248 pixels wide.

[Rob Strand]

When you "repost" the direct link I'm not sure if it gets the full-size image every time.   

In few cases when you click the thumbnail you get a mid-sized image, but if you click again (on postimages) you get the original image file.    The mid-sized image isn't readable on some schematics and pcb layouts.


FWIW, I use width=480 for most stuff but occasionally I knock it back, perhaps as low as width=320.

[11-90-an]

wait... you guys change image size? 

[duck_arse]

there's something weird going on with my first reply code. I click on the image and it opens in a new window [only image, no guff], then when I close that and come back here, the on-page image has biggered. then I click that, and as it goes back smaller, I'm sent off to a new window w/ the bigger pic again. curious. what's that word for an internal self referencial loop again?

[Vivek]

close new window created 2nd time

now the biggered would have gotten smallered