Easier sharing

[Steve]

All valid questions Hoogle.

[admin]

What is the problem with our own image uploader/attachment manager? I think it supports larger image sizes than almost any other photo hosting service out there, plus it's right here on our site already.

If anyone uses Flickr or some other photo hosting, they can still share those images here as well by using the embed image button and pasting in the image URL.

The display script resizes the images for veiwing in threads, but if you click them you get the full size images and it's capable of handing very high res files.

I'm a bit lost as to what exactly you guys are looking for. Maybe it's partly because I am jumping in this thread late, but some clarification woudl really help.

Is there some problem with our own image hosting? Do I need to increase the size limits? Or is the image hosting fine, but you just want a better way to display galleries of images rather than in forum threads?

Let me know exactly what you want and I'll look into the best solution.

[Hoogle]

A buttton that would let you upload multiple images at the same I think could be done with an action script control but also where when uploading more that say 4 pictures it will automatically make the previews smaller and have them in tidy rows and coloums like an albub so it is a lot cleaner to look at. If you see an image you like you can then click it to see the image full size and save it. So basically the ability to create a mini album right in on the thread. If you are uploading multiple large files it gets frustrating uploading 1 image at a time especially if they are 10+MBs each. and then maybe with each album provided by users there could also be an option to download whole album in 1 click rather than having to to open up each image to save it. We were also concerned that if we were to start uploading high resolution pictures in large numbers then we would be clogging up the forum and taking up valuable space I am assuming this is not the case.

[RedneckR0nin]

Can always use image hosting and post a Url image attachment option which is easier on the forums bandwidth and much faster to do from the users end!

[Steve]

What is the problem with our own image uploader/attachment manager? I think it supports larger image sizes than almost any other photo hosting service out there, plus it's right here on our site already. .......................................
............................ Let me know exactly what you want and I'll look into the best solution.

Hi admin, nothing needs to change and the file size limits are already more than large enough.

What was originally suggested which wasn't entirely clear in the first post was a way to share High Resolution images.
That would have to be a searchable database like iStockPhoto.

That morphed into something that was more likely to work here at PSG like a members Photo Gallery similar to the plug-in Vafann had found.

The Albums feature really is useless and images posted in messages by members fade away as the thread ages.
The plug-in she found may or may not be suitable but some kind of members gallery would make sense in a Photoshop forum.

[ksretouch]

you can use 4shared.com to upload your stuff without resizing. moreover I think there are a lot of free bulk resizing tools available.

[Steve]

you can use 4shared.com to upload your stuff without resizing. moreover I think there are a lot of free bulk resizing tools available.

The goal is to have a searchable gallery where we can view all available images.
We can already share an image in the threads that support many file types and very large file sizes.

It will take a while but I'm told it is on the list.

[rik1989]

I agree this would be nice.