Cameras & Camcorders

[Laura]

Want to improve your photography skills?  
 
Post your photos in the Community and get feedback from Product Experts and aficionados!  Register for the Community, select some of your favourite photos from your online albums, post them in a message and soak up the expert advice provided by your fellow community members.  You’ll be shooting better photos in no time!

Check out the thread that Graham has started - feel free to add some of your favourite photos!

Below are some instructions on how to upload images from your computer, from your gallery and from another webiste.

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How to upload an image from my Computer.

1. Click on the image icon in the message.

2.  Click "Browse" and select the image from your computer.

3.  Choose the setting for which you want to post the image under (hide in gallery, size & alignment) and click "insert image".

How to upload an image to my gallery.

1. Navigate to your profile page by clicking on your username.

2. Click"View image gallery"

3. Click "Browse" and select the image from your computer.

4. Click "Save to gallery".

How to post an image to a thread from my gallery.

1. Click on the image icon in the message.

 

2. Click on "From my Gallery"

3.  Select the image that you would like to display in your post.

Note: If you didn't select the "hide in gallery" option, the image will display in your gallery in your profile.

Message Edited by Laura on 04-30-2009 11:30 AM

[digital_cam]

In Firefox you can actually right click on the image and simply click "Copy Image Location" to retrieve the image name.

[Skyhawk]

I use Firefox too, and I'm a little surpised these message boards don't support a Javascript WYSIWYG version as the IE version does. There are tons of open source textbox WYSIWYG editor suites that work just as well (if not better) in Firefox and offer even more functionality if desired than the IE versions of these boards. At least they're cross compatible.

[digital_cam]

Yup.
It doesn't affect me as I know the code, but I'd imagine they're making things harder for ~20% of the people that use these forums.

[Laura]

Thanks Cam

I've edited the instructions to better explain how to post an image using firefox.

And as for the WYSIWIG for firefox, I'm going to look into this and see if it's something that we can do...

Thanks for bringing it up!

Cheers,

[digital_cam]

Most of the vBulletin and phpBB modifications allow for WYSIWYG text editors - perhaps try looking into what codes they're using?
I'm not sure if it would be something that lithium would have to implement at a higher level, though.

[Laura]

thanks for calling this out Cam - it turned out to be a really simple fix and firefox users now have access to a WYSIWIG editor.

If you prefer to use HTML, then you can click the "Edit as HTML" link at the bottom right of the message box.

Thanks!

[digital_cam]

Nice.
Any chance on including a preference so we always get the "Edit as HTML" as default?

[Graham]

I managed to do this. Under "My Profile" choose the Preferences tab. Scroll down and you'll see a checkbox labeled "Use WYSIWYG Message Editor". Uncheck this and you shall return to a world of tasty HTML.

[digital_cam]

I suppose I could have checked my preferences beforehand lol