How to Post Pics That FIT

[Fingerplucked]

[ img width=880 height=660]IMAGE_ADDRESS[/img]

You can copy the above and use it to post pics that will just barely fill the screen, but not make everyone have to scroll back and forth to view the image. (That's for a 4:3 ratio image.)

I put an extra space in the beginning between the leading "[" and "img". I had to do that to get it to print here. So delete the space.

Other than that, just post your pic's image address where it says IMAGE_ADDRESS & you're good to go.

[Dub]

Does that work again now? That was broken for a long time.

But the width (880) varies according to each user, their operating system, browser, and the way they like to use their desktop (one app fills the screen vs. smaller windows all over the place). I think a width of 550 is more reasonable.

This technique forces the users' browsers to reduce the image on the fly possibly resulting in a less than optimum rendering of the image. If your images are on Webshots you can as for a link to your image in a number of different widths. The difference is that Webshots resizes the image before sending it users' browsers.

- Dub

[Fingerplucked]

Or that, yeah.

Gene gave me this info a week or two ago, although he included a lot of spaces to make it easier to read. When I got ready to post this pic I had to search for the old thread & Gene's info, and then experiment with spaces -- some are needed, some are not, and it has to be exact. When I finally found the right combination, I wanted to put the info in a place where I'd be able to find it again, and thought others might find it useful as well.

[Dub]

This has now changed. It's much easier now to resize images. Use the “Insert Image” tool from the ProBoards tool bar to insert the URL for your image. The resulting text has a maximum width parameter set by default to 100%. You can reduce the image display size just by setting this to a smaller number like 50% or 60%.

And while were talking about inserting images, it would be great if people stopped using the ProBoards image upload or the attachment feature for images. One of these methods takes the user to a very annoying click-bait web site to view the image. The other displays the full image in a new browser page.

If you sign up for a free Dropbox account, you can load your images there and be assured they'll stay there until you take them down. Dropbox will let you generate an active link to your image that can be posted on ProBoards using the Insert Image tool. But, once inserted, you need to edit the image code as follows:

1. Remove the characters ?dl=0 at the end of the URL.

2. Replace the initial URL code (www.dropbox.com) with this: dl.dropboxusercontent.com


That URL tells Dropbox to honor the live link. Otherwise Dropbox doesn't return the image.

[Marty]

I added a app to our forum that reduces photos over a certain size by 25% but can be viewed full size by clicking on the photo.