MAN!! I looked around the various areas about how to post photos to the forum, both here in Misc-Images and Videos, and in the "Software and Board Operation" area on the home page, and all I see are photo placemarkers, or the big square Photobucket 100% storage used dial and the command to update your account to allow 3rd party hosting. (Only later do you find out how much that little "update" costs!).
I saw on another post how it was described how you could right click on a photo you wanted to insert, do the "copy image location" action, then paste that into the IMG link on your posting. Well, I sure couldn't get that to work for me from pictures I had either directly on my computer (since I don't wanna share a folder directly on my computer with the ENTIRE INTERNET, or at least the ENTIRE LOT OF Y'ALL, since providing a pipe directly into my PC might have unintended consequences (like stealing my cat pictures or sumthin'), or in a shared folder I created in Google Photos. The copied URL from a Google shared photo (with a recommendation from another forum post to add -tmp.jpg to the end of the address URL itself also did NOT work at all, as the forum error would pop up when trying to publish that "that extension is not allowed" or some other such roadblock.
Soooo, I DID figger out how to share an entire folder, with however many photos therein contained. Comments can also be added to the bottom of each photo, which is what I did with my first attempt at this, my post of SW-MOTECH mirror extenders. Since SacMike wanted to know how to do it, to see if it can work for him, here's what I did.
1) First, you gotta have a Google account. Easiest way is to set up a Gmail account, so gonna assume if you don't already have one, you can figger how to set one up and use an authentic, serious address, and it will be in the format "[email protected]" (although that one's probably already taken by now, all the GOOD ones are!)
2) go to Google Photos: google.com/photos and Sign In with your Google account (I'm not quite sure if you can set up a Google account without a Gmail account, but just make it easy and set up the damn Gmail account!)
3) Go to the blue Albums icon on left and Add (+) a New Album
4) Various ways to get photos into that album, either by clicking "select from computer" in top right text, or just drag 'n drop anywhere into the album area. You can upload in the order you want them to display in the album, but you can also always change the order of pictures in the album later by going to "edit album" from the Google "three dot menu" up top, and then drag the photos in the album around to change order
5) Now BACK to the 3-dot menu for "Sharing Options" and there you'll find your URL Share Link
6) Copy and paste it into your Forum Post.
Here's the link to the "How to Share" album I made, so you can see the steps. Once you're at the album, click on the first picture to display it alone, then you will see comments at the bottom, and you can go to next pic by finding the right arrow over on the right side of screen, which (as USUAL with the frickin' egghead engineers at Google) you CAN'T SEE unless you hover over that area!!!). Of course, once you view the second photo, there's a hidden LEFT arrow on the left side to go back. Half the time in Google, I'm wandering my cursor around the screen to see what useful function they've hidden that only shows when the cursor gets near. GD coding nerds just wanna show off their "clean interface". Anyway, here's the link:
https://goo.gl/photos/Ccqb18kkgyzWuyyC7
(You may also note there are other ways to Share an album, but this way does not require you to "send a link" to anyone, which is an option you may find wandering around Google Photos, in which case I just send the link to my Gmail address, so I can get to the screen with the Damn 3-Dot Menu and get the share link!)
Hope this helps, and let me know if anyone finds a better way to share pictures. This way, unfortunately, doesn't allow the pictures themselves to show up in the post itself, but maybe someone knows how!
D
I saw on another post how it was described how you could right click on a photo you wanted to insert, do the "copy image location" action, then paste that into the IMG link on your posting. Well, I sure couldn't get that to work for me from pictures I had either directly on my computer (since I don't wanna share a folder directly on my computer with the ENTIRE INTERNET, or at least the ENTIRE LOT OF Y'ALL, since providing a pipe directly into my PC might have unintended consequences (like stealing my cat pictures or sumthin'), or in a shared folder I created in Google Photos. The copied URL from a Google shared photo (with a recommendation from another forum post to add -tmp.jpg to the end of the address URL itself also did NOT work at all, as the forum error would pop up when trying to publish that "that extension is not allowed" or some other such roadblock.
Soooo, I DID figger out how to share an entire folder, with however many photos therein contained. Comments can also be added to the bottom of each photo, which is what I did with my first attempt at this, my post of SW-MOTECH mirror extenders. Since SacMike wanted to know how to do it, to see if it can work for him, here's what I did.
1) First, you gotta have a Google account. Easiest way is to set up a Gmail account, so gonna assume if you don't already have one, you can figger how to set one up and use an authentic, serious address, and it will be in the format "[email protected]" (although that one's probably already taken by now, all the GOOD ones are!)
2) go to Google Photos: google.com/photos and Sign In with your Google account (I'm not quite sure if you can set up a Google account without a Gmail account, but just make it easy and set up the damn Gmail account!)
3) Go to the blue Albums icon on left and Add (+) a New Album
4) Various ways to get photos into that album, either by clicking "select from computer" in top right text, or just drag 'n drop anywhere into the album area. You can upload in the order you want them to display in the album, but you can also always change the order of pictures in the album later by going to "edit album" from the Google "three dot menu" up top, and then drag the photos in the album around to change order
5) Now BACK to the 3-dot menu for "Sharing Options" and there you'll find your URL Share Link
6) Copy and paste it into your Forum Post.
Here's the link to the "How to Share" album I made, so you can see the steps. Once you're at the album, click on the first picture to display it alone, then you will see comments at the bottom, and you can go to next pic by finding the right arrow over on the right side of screen, which (as USUAL with the frickin' egghead engineers at Google) you CAN'T SEE unless you hover over that area!!!). Of course, once you view the second photo, there's a hidden LEFT arrow on the left side to go back. Half the time in Google, I'm wandering my cursor around the screen to see what useful function they've hidden that only shows when the cursor gets near. GD coding nerds just wanna show off their "clean interface". Anyway, here's the link:
https://goo.gl/photos/Ccqb18kkgyzWuyyC7
(You may also note there are other ways to Share an album, but this way does not require you to "send a link" to anyone, which is an option you may find wandering around Google Photos, in which case I just send the link to my Gmail address, so I can get to the screen with the Damn 3-Dot Menu and get the share link!)
Hope this helps, and let me know if anyone finds a better way to share pictures. This way, unfortunately, doesn't allow the pictures themselves to show up in the post itself, but maybe someone knows how!
D
