Posting photos

[Ben]

This is an attempt to see if I can post some photos on Trainboard.

If it works, I will post some pics of n scale American rolling stock in the n scale section.

If it doesn't work, its back to the drawing board!

Ben

.../fetch.d11?action=show_photo&ID_Community=DoubleStackYard&ID_Topic=1&ID_

[This message has been edited by Ben (edited 16 January 2001).]

[Gats]

Hi Ben,

You have the right code for posting the image, but you require to add the full URL. Try it again with the http://site.

Gary.

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[Ben]

Ok Gary, thanks; I'm not quite sure what you mean but I'll try again (and keep trying with different variations until I get success).

Ben

http://communities.msn.co.uk/DoubleStack Yard/fetch.dll?action=show_photo&ID_Community=DoubleStackYard&ID_Topic=1&ID_

[Ben]

Or perhaps this might work:

http://communities.msn.co.uk/DoubleStackYard

[Ben]

Gary, I've now got as far as getting a little red cross inside a white square; am I getting there?

What am I still doing wrong?

What else do I need to do?

Ben

[Peirce]

Ben

When you are picking up the URL to put into you note, are you using cut(copy) and paste? All it takes is to have just one character mis-typed to throw the whole thing off. Be sure you are using the whole URL, starting with the http and going all the way to the end. I usually paste the URL into the post or reply, then add in front and at the ends, with no spaces. Like this:

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=76905&a=1282560&p=18452521&Sequence=0&res=high

Now click above on the edit icon, so you can see how the image link for this picture looks. I hope this helps.

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[fitz]

Ben, I looked at the code in the one where the little red crosses showed up, and your code looks fine. The only thing I see that could be a problem is the lack of the type of file, such as "jpg" or "gif" at the end of the title. If the photo is xxxxx.doublestack.jpg you need to add the .jpg to the file.

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[Alan]

Ben, you may also need to add /files to the url, depending how pics are saved. Keep trying, you will get there http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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Alan Curtis. Moderator. Member #12

The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale!

www.alancurtismodels.com (http://www.alancurtismodels.com)
Andersley Western Railroad (http://www.trainweb.org/andersleywestern/)
Alan's American Gallery (http://www.trainweb.com/alansamericangallery/)



[This message has been edited by Alan (edited 16 January 2001).]

[Ben]

I'm lost - I don't understand cutting and pasting; I'll try what has been suggested about .jpg and then I'm giving up - I just don't think I'm part of the world that understands all these complicated systems - which is a shame as I now have a digital camera and was hoping to post a lot of pictures.

http://communities.msn.co.uk/DoubleStackYard.jpg

[Ben]

http://communities.msn.co.uk/DoubleStackYard.jpg/files

[JLS]

Ben,

I was able to access your photos on MSN. However, your photos are considered as "adult only", although I didn't find anything pornographic in these train photos... Maybe you have something to do so that they are classified differently !

Now, I'm not sure that the photos that you placed on this site are accessable from the outside. Just in case, I'm trying to show one of these photos below, to see if it can be displayed :

http://content.communities.msn.co.uk/isapi/fetch.dll?action=show_photo&ID_Community=DoubleStackYard&ID_Topic=1&ID_Message=2

[JLS]

It does not work, although this is the actual URL of the photo, so I assume that the photos placed on this MSN site cannot be viewed outside of the MSN site itself.

What I suggest is that you place your photos on another site, such as Photo Point which does not cause any problem and so that anyone can view them.

[Ben]

I've already tried PhotoPoint, before I turned to MSN, and I couldn't even upload the photos to photopoint from my own computer.

I don't know if its because they are digital stills taken with a mini DV video camera rather than with a digital still camera; I wouldn't have thought that should make any difference.

The software supplied with the camera allows one to capture the images and store them on the computer and I was able then to save them on a floppy disc and upload them to the MSN album I had created - probably unnecessarily complicated but the only way I could make it work.

Everything else I have tried doesn't work and I just feel completely helpless; its always the same with computers, everything I try to do doesn't work even though I waste days of effort on it while everyone else just sails through and achieves the right results almost in their sleep.

I've lost interest now in getting any pictures onto Trainboard unless anyone has any really bright ideas; what I think I will do is store them in my MSN album and draw members' attention to it so that if anyone is interested, they can easily have a look for themselves.

Ben

[This message has been edited by Ben (edited 17 January 2001).]

[Gats]

After killing the insipid cookie and java requests my firewall was freaking over with MSN...

Ok, Ben, before rolling over on this baby, let's have a look at it....

As Jean-Louis pointed out, some servers do not allow thrid party access to the images. MSN may be one of them. Trainpix is another.

Looking throught the html code, I can see where your attempts have been in posting the image location on MSN. I found I had to log in to Passport, or whatever they choose to call it these days, before I could access your images. I failed to do so as I couldn't remember my password - D'oh!
Regardless, let's pursue the Photopoint problem.

The images from the camera capture are most probably .jpg files. This will pose no problem with people seeing them.
Assuming you have your account set-up with Photopoint, try the fllowing once logged in;


<LI>at the top of screen, select Upload Photos
<LI>I suggest you follow Step 3 - Easy Upload and follow the prompts. Note you can upload any number of images up to 10 in this mode. 3 images is the default. Have your images on your hard drive in a seperate folder marked uploads or something like that, or an easily recognisable folder. The browse function looks at your hard drive, or floppy. Use whichever you are comfortable with.
<LI>when the upload is complete, that additional small window that opened on screen will close by itself. You image/s have been uploaded into your incoming album.
<LI>look in your upload/s by clicking on the 'incoming photos' link. You should see a thumbnail of each image.
<LI>you need to move the images from the incoming photos album to one of your 'normal' albums. Do this by scrolling down the page and using the 'Organize my photos' link. Choose the images you want to move by ticking in the box beside the image and then choosing the album you wish to move the images to. Select move.
<LI>when the screen refreshes, select return to album list and when it refreshes, then select the album that has the images you moved. You will see them there in thumbnail form. Select an image.
<LI>when the image appears, right click the image and select copy shortcut. This will save the images location on your PC's clipboard.
<LI>in your TrainBoard window select where you wish to add the link to your image in the post. Right click and you get the choice of copy, cut, paste and delete. Select paste - this will add the images location to your TrainBoard post. Add the UBB code for adding a image like you have tried with the MSN site.

This is a photo I uploaded to run through the process. It is my first posted to photopoint! http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1170548&a=11015580&p=38318413&Sequence=0&res=high

Hope this is of help, Ben.
Contact me personally if you would like to have you images uploaded in a different way, say to my site, so you can show them.

Gary.


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N to the Nth degree!

[This message has been edited by Gats (edited 17 January 2001).]

[fitz]

Ben, can you send one of them to me as an attachment to email? If so I will figure out how to get it on this site. Don't feel like you are alone in trying to understand this stuff. I have spent more time being frustrated than being successful. You just have to keep trying and usually you will find a brute force method to overpower these geek programmers. My email address should be attached, but I will repeat it:
fitzrr@pioneer.net
Hope I can help.


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[Alan]

Ben, DO NOT GIVE UP, remember the British stiff upper lip http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif

One of the guys above will get you sorted http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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Alan Curtis. Moderator. Member #12

The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale!

www.alancurtismodels.com (http://www.alancurtismodels.com)
Andersley Western Railroad (http://www.trainweb.org/andersleywestern/)
Alan's American Gallery (http://www.trainweb.com/alansamericangallery/)

[E-8]

Hang in there Ben. We'll get you going. Soon, we'll allow users to upload images anyway. Just e-mail it to me if you need to.

Charlie

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[virtual-bird]

Hey Charlie.

Is there a way to set up a field like the username and password one above and the user just puts the URL in there and hits a button that says POST IMAGE.. ???

This question adn problem is putting a lot of people off posting images. I have no probs with it, but as you see, Ben I bet has a few dozen excellent images that he could post...


BEN..
If I was you I would open an geocities, xoom, etc account and upload the images there, and then just create a link here to there..
I have no ideas on photopoint, or MSN (but if its like anything else MS...) but the GEO setup is easy adn the URL is a lot shorter and simpler.
http://www.geocities.com/bens_images/PICTURE_NAME

that easy!




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CK& Bird Butt Railroad -
Its a coal mining region of a place far far away, that shares rails with SP, NS...
Era:
Time stands still round these parts, and we have everything from Steam, to Diesels...

[watash]

Wait Bird Butt, isn't he supposed to put his photo on his website, then type it something like this:?

http://home.flash.net/~watash/lioneleng.jpg (no such photo exists)

http://website.server.net/wwwfolder/photoname.jpg

That is how mine work. Look at mine on the "your never too young nor too old" forum and edit my post on the two black and white photos of my childhood Lionel layout with the Royal Gorge swinging bridge and Grand Teton mountains.


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[Gats]

Watash, you can have a website using the free website services of Geocities, Xoom, and the like, or a specific photo server like PhotoPoint.
Or you can have the photos stored on your own ISP's server, depending on the terms of service you have. I have 10meg, though I can stretch the friendship to 20meg easily, as part of my service plan.

I think what Bruce is getting at is having a service like Geocities, or PhotoPoint, that allows us to upload photos to TrainBoard's server using a simple server-based method, rather than having to have them uploaded elsewhere and running into the problem of not being able to view them via image links (ala Trainpix).

Gary.


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N to the Nth degree!

[Ironhorseman]

Xoom.com doesn't exist anymore Gary. NBCi bought them out. I have had nothing but trouble with my FTP since they took over! http://www.trainboard.com/frown.gif

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"Get Goosed on the Yreka Western"

[Ben]

Thanx everyone for your encouragement and advice; I will not give up and will have another try, but probably not until the weekend as I don't quite seem to have the energy or inclination when I get home from work on weekday evenings!

I will also try and email sample pictures to those who have asked.

Thanks again; the friendly help and encouragement that members of this board offer is one of the most important features that make it a very special community of enthusiasts and one that I am very happy to be part of.

Ben

[Ben]

ok, its nearly midnight but having now managed to create an album in PhotoPoint I am going to try again to post a sample picture here.

If it works, this is a photo of New Barnet Station, a rather run down outer London suburban station on the former GNR/LNER East Coast main line, a few miles from my home.

Ben

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1457470&a=10951737&p=38450600&Sequence=0&res=high

[This message has been edited by Ben (edited 18 January 2001).]

[Ben]

Y-e-ssssss!!!!

More photos to follow at the weekend!

Ben

[Alan]

<font color="3333cc" size="+1">Ben, CONGRATULATIONS! From now on, it will be second nature http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif</font>

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Alan Curtis. Moderator. Member #12

The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale!

www.alancurtismodels.com (http://www.alancurtismodels.com)
Andersley Western Railroad (http://www.trainweb.org/andersleywestern/)
Alan's American Gallery (http://www.trainweb.com/alansamericangallery/)

[fitz]

Ben, persistence will overcome all! Good job. Looking forward to seeing more of your photos in the future.

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[E-8]

Good job Ben! Sometimes there are little hurdles to cross. Believe me - I am working on a computer problem right now that is about to get the best of me but I just have to back off for a little bit sometimes and go back to it with a clear head. You just have to keep trying and you got it!

Charlie

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[Ben]

Thanks, everyone, for your comments; I will post further pictures in due course in the appropriate fora.

Ben

[Gats]

Hey, way to go Ben! Congrats for hanging in there and getting through. Let's see some of the UK photos you have waiting. http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

Gary.

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N to the Nth degree!

[upguy]

I have been reading about the misadventures of Ben. I know just how he feels since I have been holding off on posting photos for the same reasons. Well, I have decided to try posting a photo also. I have never done this before either, so don't hold your breath.

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1494540&a=11272840&p=39540913


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Rett

[This message has been edited by upguy (edited 29 January 2001).]

[This message has been edited by upguy (edited 29 January 2001).]

[upguy]

Well, What do you know! http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif IT WORKS!!!!! And it only took three tries! (I think I'll leave the "edit" remarks just to prove to the next novice that I really didn't succeed with the first try.)

Now I can go post a few pictures in the Freelancer's Forum. These are pictures of my freelanced Oregon Western Lines.

I'm going to post one more photo here just to be sure I have it; and, then, it's off to other forums....

Well, maybe tomorrow night. It may be too late tonight.


http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1494540&a=11272840&p=39540922



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Rett

[Colonel]

great pictures Rett, I look forward to seeing more in the freelancers forum

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[John Nutt]

Way to go Ben--I am looking for digital camera to post some nscale photos and will have to go through the same ----- that you just did. Sure is great to see all the help you received. Way to hang in there. John

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[Ben]

Yes John, everyone was really helpful - that is one of the characteristics of Trainboard.

I'm sure I remember seeing a post from Alan that he had just bought a digital camera but try as I might I can't find the post again!

Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing some of Alan's photos soon.

Ben

[E-8]

Keep those photos coming!

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