Problems with Photbucket hosting for Pprune pictures

[Centaurus]

I have had continuing difficulty over the years and extreme frustration using Photobucket as a host website for placing pictures on Pprune.

I have read through lots of advice on this problem several years ago on Pprune and in the end thought f..k it and gave up.

Now having a very picturesque 737 photo I would like to place on Pprune I went through my old photobucket album and found the picture I wish to post. Bugger me I have spent yet another frustrating half hour and all I get for my trouble is the URL text coming out on Pprune instead of the 737 picture. Would greatly appreciate if some kind soul can reply on this forum with a step by step list of how to put my 737 photo on a Pprune forum. I noticed the photobucket layout has changed markedly since I first had a few successful attempts to post photos but that was years ago.

Alternatively, should I throw away photobucket and start from scratch with a fresh hosting website. If so, which one would you advise for simple non-frustrating easy to understand hosting?

[mixture]

simple non-frustrating easy to understand hosting

I'd suggest postimage.org

Very simple and you can even ask it to resize the image to forum-etiquette friendly dimensions for you.

[dubbleyew eight]

centaurus.
log in to photobucket.
click the upload icon.
drag the photo across into the upload area.
on many occasions that stuffs up.
it seems that not all the code has loaded on to your machine.
so.... click the upload again.
wait until the bigger upload area has appeared.
drag your photo across on to the pane.

when the upload has completed you will see an inch square thumbnail of the photo you have just uploaded.
click on the thumbnail
a larger copy of the image will display with some hyperlinks to the right hand side.
click on the second link down the list.

back in pproooone start a new post.
click the image icon.
do a right click paste over the partial entry then save your post.

works for me on an apple iMac. W8

[Loose rivets]

Let me first say that two communications with Photo Bucket support have brought caring help and concerned tones about what they could do to fix current problems. One-to-one human help. However, a year later I find myself getting het up on further issues.

It's that box on the right that was giving me the problems. It should, at a pick, show an ethereal 'Copied'. Mine would not until I clicked on the photo left/right arrow and got the next picture on the screen. I would then go back to my original picture and it would copy. The other night it wouldn't copy whatever I did. Couldn't even 'block'/select the address to copy it the hard way. When I later tried it with a folder with only one photo in it, it worked.

The other issue:

I always used to select the bottom option and put Paste in the PPRuNe screen. Simple, though an oversize would be tedious and bring the wrath of the mods. When I joined the Seiko watch restoration forum they have masses of fantastic photos of the works and to post on their (unknown) site software, one had to do what was suggested above. Different, but it worked well.

Because PB has been so caring in the past, I feel inclined to work with them a bit longer. The library is not bad but I do feel there may be an issue with the number of photos in any given folder.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

I recently uploaded this to Photobucket and I find it very easy to use. I upload many pictures to another aviation web site using Photobucket without any problems either.:

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a610/brendan_mccartney/Aircraft/OKSGR_zps41314ac1.jpg

[Old Photo.Fanatic]

This works for me.
Log into photobucket.
Upload photo. from the source file.
Photo should then load into PB with a resulting thumbnail view.
Clk. on the thumbnail to open it up in the main view.
On the right of this view look for "Links to share this photo". 2 options.
Clk. on the IMG option, a yellow "Copied" will flash up in the box.
Then go to your destination file eg "pprune reply"
Right clk. in the reply box and clk. on option "Paste"

The data display should then appear for the photo.
Go to "Preview post" to see the resulting photo.

I have just gone through this routine to produce the included example Photo. I took at Oshkosh in 2011.

PS As far as I know PB also auto sizes the picture to the required display size.

Hope this may help clarify things for you.


http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt200/phredd10/DSC_0032_02copy_zpsffff5279.jpg

OPF

[Booglebox]

I used to use Imageshack for this but now I use Imgur which seems to be far superior.

[Centaurus]

Thank you all very much for your prompt and most helpful advice. I have printed out each post and will work through the process step by step. Fingers crossed!
Cent,