One of the advantages of having your photos hosted off-site, at AirPhotos or on a web server (like photo bucket or ???) is that you can insert photos between text as discussed in this old post.
Shari
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Not sure. Were you trying to upload pics to a post or to your gallery?
Shari
Trying to upload a pic to a post.
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Originally Posted by Janet
Just to restate:
Members have 100MB of storage space in the photo section but only 5 MB for attachments to threads. The two sections are unrelated.
Reverse that would be great I think that's the best place to post pics as that helps illustrate what you are talking about in a specific thread. The "Show and Tell."
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Originally Posted by Janet
Alternately, You can post a pic in your gallery and link to it from your post.
I hadn't thought of that (mainly because I didn't know what my limit was), but it's helpful to know.
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Originally Posted by InsideOut
One of the advantages of having your photos hosted off-site, at AirPhotos or on a web server (like photo bucket or ???) is that you can insert photos between text as discussed in this old post.
Shari
That's definitely the best part of hosting them off-site!
I would suggest to use the airforums photo gallery over another site.
The problem is these free hosting services come and go all the time. If the thread photos are hosted there, and someone is researching something six months later... they will get a little red X instead of the answer to their most desperate AS problem.
Keep the images here where there is control. Perhaps this is good enough reason to raise the limit. I undertand the reason is to help gently urge people to be supporting members, but I'd hate to see the informative forum filled with red X's....
If you are a regular AirForums member, you get 5MB worth of photo space to upload into posts/threads - no matter what. If you are a gold rivet "Supporting Member" there is no limit to the number of photos you can upload into posts/threads.
When you sign up as a supporting member, it is for one year...if you choose not to re-contribute after the year lapses, your photos don't get stripped out even if you are over 5MB - you just won't be able to add any more to new posts/threads. If you re-contribute as a supporting member for another year, then your photo posting ability is unlimited again ~
So the bottomline is posting unlimited photos in threads is a privledge gained by being a supporting member...otherwise, the limit is 5MB.
As mentioned earlier, your photo gallery (100MB) or another hosting website is another option to allow you to post photos without contributing...
Hope this helps ~
Shari
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WBCCI #1824 - DenCO Unit Past President (2005)
AIR #30 - Join Date: 2-25-2002
If you are a regular AirForums member, you get 5MB worth of photo space to upload into posts/threads - no matter what. If you are a gold rivet "Supporting Member" there is no limit to the number of photos you can upload into posts/threads. ...
So the bottomline is posting unlimited photos in threads is a privledge gained by being a supporting member...otherwise, the limit is 5MB. ...
Hope this helps ~
Shari
This is the clarification I was looking for! The large majority of my attached photographs were at the request of other members, and if I had known about the 5 MB limit on attachments, I suppose I wouldn't have squandered it away so carelessly. I've had a Photobucket account for about a year now for sharing family pictures. I guess I'll need to refamiliarize myself with it... if I can remember my password.
So how do I include a pic from my "member photo gallery" into a thread I'm posting on?
Remember I'm a computor stooge. Make it easy.
Hi Doorgunner,
I went to my photos and copied the address at the top of my browser while looking at the photo I wanted to include. (It is that line at the top that starts with http://. Copy (Control C Windows, Command {Apple} C Mac} the entire line.) In this case it is the higher res version. Then I pasted it into the body of the message.
now, if only I could hit a magic button and make all my thread attachments pop into my photo album...
maybe in ASF 2.0....
jp
That sure would be nice. I'm not gonna go through 433 photos and move them. Way too much effort.
I guess I don't understand why the server is big enough to hold 100Mb in the photo albums, but can't hold more than 5Mb for the thread attachments. Are they different servers?
Photos are an integral component of sharing Airstream knowledge.
2. When it comes down to a spacial web crunch, the administrators should also take a look at how much the word association games take up in our web space (yes, I know that photos take up a lot more space than words & these games help members "feel a part of the community".
3. For those of you who post photos or spend a significant part of your daily web browsing time here, dont you think it would be appropriate for you to upgrade your membership? The minimum donation is only $20/yr.! If you spend only 1 hr./wk., the cost to show your support is less than $0.38 per week. (BTW, you dont need to sign up for Pay Pal in advance to do this it is just part of the one time payment process when upgrading).
Upgrade at: http://www.airforums.com/forums/f138/announcements.html
I wasn't concerned about this yet as I've kept an eye on the upload status bar where you do attachments. Last look I'd used up about a third of my space according to that indicator.
Just checked to be sure and it's now showing all red - or NO space left - how'd that happen...??????
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I think that's the best place to post pics as that helps illustrate what you are talking about in a specific thread. The "Show and Tell."
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