How to easily post your flickr and picasaweb image galleries

[digitaltoast]

How to easily post photos, galleries and albums on Reading Forum.

Reading Forum has plenty of space for storage and uploading attachments and it's not about to run out any day soon.
But it's not infinite, and when it comes to displaying photographs, if it's more than a couple of images, it's not ideal either.
And if a lot of people were to post a lot of pics in a long, popular thread, it has the potential to slow the server for everyone.

There are several photo sharing services out there, the big two being Picasaweb and Flickr.
Personally, I prefer Picasaweb because of the excellent Picasa software with its advanced tagging for people, places, faces, geo-location etc.
However, flickr is older and more popular. Both give generous amounts of storage for free, and are quick and easy to sign up to.
If you'd like a good overview of the two, read this guide: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/34558/f ... web-albums

By using these services, not only do you get a way of backing up your photos, but you get a very easy way of sharing your photos and albums on Reading Forum, with Google and Flickr's servers doing all the grunt work on our behalf.

Thanks to a couple of great scripts - jflickrfeed and Embed Picasa Gallery - a fair bit of fiddling and lots of help from the internet, it's very easy to do this.

Flickr photos with a certain tag:
Although it doesn't seem possible to post a flickr album, this method is, in fact, even better. It allows you to tag multiple pictures across different albums, then show all those pictures here.
So let's say you have 10 albums of pictures of Reading with 20 pictures in each, of which you thought 2 in each album were real stunners you wanted to show on the forum, you'd add the tag (for example) "rfbesttownpics".

Then just click the "flickrtag" button above, and between the tags put your flickr tag stream. For example:

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[flickrtag]http://www.flickr.com/photos/username/tags/rfbesttownpics/[/flickrtag]

So for example:

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[flickrtag]http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesdray/tags/icicles/[/flickrtag]

gives you...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesdray/tags/icicles/ - click a thumbnail for larger image

There are limitations with flickr - the thumbnails and full size pics aren't that large and you are limited to the first 20 pictures of each tag.
Nothing to stop you tagging and posting groups of 20, of course.

Picasaweb albums

Picasa offers a more powerful set of features for sharing photos, and here you can post either a link to an album, or a link to your entire public list of albums.

If there's more than 7 photos, you can click to see more. For example:

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[picasaalbum]https://picasaweb.google.com/tomaszek31/RoznePomieszane[/picasaalbum]

gives you

https://picasaweb.google.com/tomaszek31/RoznePomieszane - Click a thumbnail for larger image or an album name to open the album

https://picasaweb.google.com/tomaszek31/RoznePomieszane

If you want to show a gallery of ALL your public albums, just drop the album title. In the example below, some of the albums only have one pic, so don't get confused by that!
Once you've viewed that album, you can either click and image for a larger image, or click "back" to return to the album list.

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[picasaalbum]https://picasaweb.google.com/ruudseverijns70[/picasaalbum]

gives you

https://picasaweb.google.com/ruudseverijns70 - Click a thumbnail for larger image or an album name to open the album

https://picasaweb.google.com/ruudseverijns70

Hope you have fun sharing your pics - there are some really excellent photographers here in RF!

[piwacket]

Digi, as I said earlier, I use Photobucket - but OH downloads from his mobile and/or camera onto Kodak, and recently has found that he can no longer send images to me (or anyone else) in a sensible format - ie: I can't them uupload them to anywhere else (My Pictures/P'bucket)) which is a pain!

So woould I be right in thinking he could upload them to either of the sites above instead?

[digitaltoast]

Digi, as I said earlier, I use Photobucket - but OH downloads from his mobile and/or camera onto Kodak, and recently has found that he can no longer send images to me (or anyone else) in a sensible format - ie: I can't them uupload them to anywhere else (My Pictures/P'bucket)) which is a pain!
So woould I be right in thinking he could upload them to either of the sites above instead?

Yes - I believe he should be able to upload directly to either of these two from the mobile or camera.

[piwacket]

Thanks

[Les]

If it is of any help, when I plug my camera into the PC, the drop down menu that appears as if by magic now contains the option the upload directly to Piccassa 3 editing suite and it shows whatever is in the camera on the Library page. From there you can select which ones you want to edit and then uploda to your Pictures file. When you click on the 'export' button you get the option the insert a watermark, i.e. Photo Copyright Les.Dray.
I recently edited some pics from friends and forgot to alter the watermark, so had to repeat the exercise!.

[piwacket]

Thanks Les - I've asked him to read this through.

[Les]

Duly deleted for you Oldman.

[OLDMAN]

Cheers Les

Not sure how it got in here though!

[Les]

One of technowledgies mysteries I dare say mate.