Image Transference without PC file?
amyawake
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I know you can transfer a picture/image (e.g. on internet) via first downloading it into your computer and then using something like photobucket.
I don't really want the pallaver of having to keep deleting images in my computer (that I only use once). Is there a way, a website that enables direct transference of images to, say, a forum without involving pc file?
I don't really want the pallaver of having to keep deleting images in my computer (that I only use once). Is there a way, a website that enables direct transference of images to, say, a forum without involving pc file?
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For example, with many smartphones you can take a photo and send it directly to Facebook.
More information needed!
Right-click on the image and choose "copy image location" (in Firefox). You can then paste the link into the forum and display the piccy (if the forum allows that). Some images on some sites are protected against this, though.
You should of course obtain permission to use the piccy first.
It would be mostly transferring google images to a forum. However, trying to do this I have found that this only allows the URL for them to click on, i.e. no direct picture can be seen on the forum.
Would permission be needed for this?
No you won't need permission on forums that allow direct images (DS does not).
In the posting box there will be an icon for posting images, or you can add image tags {img} {/img} yourself.
(substitute square brackets [ for curly ones {, and paste the URL between the tags)
I can do it via photobucket but that entails first downloading the image into my computer file. Am trying to bypass using my computer file (such a hassle to keep deleting if I only ever use an image once)....so need to know if there is a way to do this.
As mentioned, you should be able to wrap IMG tag around the link like this,
Which is listed in the supported list of tags,
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/misc.php?do=bbcode
However you can see that this does not work on all sites. Some sites don't support it to speed up forum.
I'm trying to transfer an image to a forum post. Seems like no-one hear knows of a way to transfer a google image, using another facility/website - without having to involve pc file then?
You may run foul of copyright embedding an image that is subject to copyright without the copyright holder's permission. Linking to the original image on it's host site may well be better from that point of view.
<img src="url" alt="some_text">
And as I said you have to consider copyright. Posting a link to the original on it's original host site may be OK. Copying the image datafile onto a different web server and linking to it from there may not be.
Perhaps if you said which forum you were trying to post the image on, we could tell you if it's allowed.
As already stated, Digital Spy does not allow direct images to be posted, so the img tags are ignored by the forum software.
The other thing is perhaps you are using the URL of the page that the image is on, rather than the URL of the image itself?
If you click on a Google image and select 'View original image', then you can copy the URL from there.
Just make sure it ends it .jpg or .png etc.
Photobucket does work on forum posts but I am trying to find out whether there is way to click on the google image and transfer the picture directly showing up on to the forum post without involving first having the image download onto my computer file (since it's a hassle to keep deleting the image after forum transfer because I'd only use the image once).
Is there a way to bypass using computer file?
Hope this is now clear. Thanks for your posts up till now.
If that is not what you are doing then please outline exactly what it is you do to get the image to appear on this forum.
One thought that does occur is that the forum software parses all links and only allows ones to Photobucket to appear.
Thing is, if you bring up a page of Google images and right click an image and choose either 'view image' or 'copy image url', then the url that comes up starts "data:image/jpeg;....." and ends in a long string of characters. That's probably not suitable for posting on a forum.
What you should do is click on the image and select 'view original image' or bring the image up on the original page, and copy the true url of the image, making sure that it ends in .jpg or .png etc (as I said in an earlier post).
If that still doesn't work, then you can be fairly sure that the forum blocks all but Photobucket images.
ETA: Having said that, I just tried the strange url in a forum I use, and the image came up fine, but the forum you use might be more fussy?
Thanks for all your help - I appreciate you giving me your time and consideration.
Use the url of the image on it's original page. The one that ends .jpg
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g262/yetnet/DS-uplad-from-link_zps5875cdcb.png
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