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? ? ?_? ?? Pimlico's Image Hosting Guide for Imgur ? ? ?_? ??
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Do you hate using TinyPic? Does it slow down your computer? That's because it's full of spyware, ads, and other nonsense. This is true for the majority of free imaging websites. Another popular one is ImageShack and Photobucket; I personally feel this is probably the most offense one, however it's the most popular. ImageShack and Photobucket makes it very difficult to link directly to the picture itself. They always wrap their website and "value-add" to it, such as being able to order prints, display ads, and other tracking technology.
One of the better image hosting companies is a little known site called Imgur. For those of you who use reddit.com, you know a few years ago the website had the same problem. Which image hosting provider should everyone use? Same problems, etc, etc. One of the reddit.com users decided to build his own free image hosting website, and he called it imgur.com. From that day forward reddit.com used the new imgur.com website to host all pictures on reddit.com.
For those of you who have no idea what reddit it, it's a news aggregation site that gets about 20,000,000 per month and 240,000,000 visits per year. It's insane.
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\_??????? Get started with imgur.com \_???????
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I would like to recommend that RWI start using imgur.com. Here are the immediate benefits:
OK, so how do you use Imgur? Let me show you.
First make an account. Goto http://www.imgur.com/
Just fill in the blanks. No annoying confirmations either. Instantly start using it.
Confirm the CAPTCHA
Now you should be logged in and see your dashboard.
To start uploading images, just click on "upload images" up top. You have LOTS of images. You can just copy and paste an image into it, select from files on your computer, drag images from your computer into the dialog box, or even link to images from other sites to upload.
As I made this tutorial, I had a bunch of screenshots on my Desktop. I clicked the upload button and just highlighted about 20+ pictures and dragged them into the upload box on Imgur.
Once you select all of the files you want to upload, you can create an album at the same time. You can see that I called my album "imgur tutorial" Keep the default settings to blog (it shows the images from top to bottom when browsing an album).
Now just click "Start Upload"
Now you should see all of your uploaded images on your dashboard!
That's pretty much it. Very, very simple.
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\_??????? Using imgur.com pictures in RWI posts \_???????
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The next step is how do you use your new Imgur pictures in a RWI post?
VERY EASY!!!
Click on a image. You should see an image dialog box like this.
Look at all of those beautiful shortcuts! The most important thing to look at is the bottom-right side of the dialog box.
Do you see all of the Sizes? Imgur is nice enough to automatically create 6 copies of your original image in different sizes for you.
My favorite is the "huge thumbnail" It has a very good size that fits the width of most forums very well, but still has great detail.
Just click "Huge Thumbnail"
Do you see what happened? All of the shortcuts changed! For those of you who are detail-oriented or techies, you might have noticed that all imgur.com did was append a single "h" to the end of the random image filename! And yes, the "h" stands for "huge!"
Copy and paste the "Direct Link" and use this in your new RWI post!
When you start making a post, click the "Insert Image" button on the top of the RWI editor. You'll see a dialog box. Paste this Imgur Direct Link into here. Also uncheck the "retrieve remote file and reference locally" - imgur.com is cached around the world, so no need to cache it on RWI. Now just click OK.
Now you're done!
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???????? Pimlico's Personal Recommendation Summary ????????
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Please use imgur.com for all of your forum pictures!
Thank you!!
? ? ?_? ?? Pimlico's Image Hosting Guide for Imgur ? ? ?_? ??
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Do you hate using TinyPic? Does it slow down your computer? That's because it's full of spyware, ads, and other nonsense. This is true for the majority of free imaging websites. Another popular one is ImageShack and Photobucket; I personally feel this is probably the most offense one, however it's the most popular. ImageShack and Photobucket makes it very difficult to link directly to the picture itself. They always wrap their website and "value-add" to it, such as being able to order prints, display ads, and other tracking technology.
One of the better image hosting companies is a little known site called Imgur. For those of you who use reddit.com, you know a few years ago the website had the same problem. Which image hosting provider should everyone use? Same problems, etc, etc. One of the reddit.com users decided to build his own free image hosting website, and he called it imgur.com. From that day forward reddit.com used the new imgur.com website to host all pictures on reddit.com.
For those of you who have no idea what reddit it, it's a news aggregation site that gets about 20,000,000 per month and 240,000,000 visits per year. It's insane.
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\_??????? Get started with imgur.com \_???????
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I would like to recommend that RWI start using imgur.com. Here are the immediate benefits:
- It's free
- Very easy to use
- No terrible ads
- No "value-add" services such as printing
- You can EASILY link DIRECTLY to your images
- The amount of storage is pretty much unlimited
- The image hosting is very very fast and cached around the world
OK, so how do you use Imgur? Let me show you.
First make an account. Goto http://www.imgur.com/
Just fill in the blanks. No annoying confirmations either. Instantly start using it.
Confirm the CAPTCHA
Now you should be logged in and see your dashboard.
To start uploading images, just click on "upload images" up top. You have LOTS of images. You can just copy and paste an image into it, select from files on your computer, drag images from your computer into the dialog box, or even link to images from other sites to upload.
As I made this tutorial, I had a bunch of screenshots on my Desktop. I clicked the upload button and just highlighted about 20+ pictures and dragged them into the upload box on Imgur.
Once you select all of the files you want to upload, you can create an album at the same time. You can see that I called my album "imgur tutorial" Keep the default settings to blog (it shows the images from top to bottom when browsing an album).
Now just click "Start Upload"
Now you should see all of your uploaded images on your dashboard!
That's pretty much it. Very, very simple.
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\_??????? Using imgur.com pictures in RWI posts \_???????
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The next step is how do you use your new Imgur pictures in a RWI post?
VERY EASY!!!
Click on a image. You should see an image dialog box like this.
Look at all of those beautiful shortcuts! The most important thing to look at is the bottom-right side of the dialog box.
Do you see all of the Sizes? Imgur is nice enough to automatically create 6 copies of your original image in different sizes for you.
My favorite is the "huge thumbnail" It has a very good size that fits the width of most forums very well, but still has great detail.
Just click "Huge Thumbnail"
Do you see what happened? All of the shortcuts changed! For those of you who are detail-oriented or techies, you might have noticed that all imgur.com did was append a single "h" to the end of the random image filename! And yes, the "h" stands for "huge!"
Copy and paste the "Direct Link" and use this in your new RWI post!
When you start making a post, click the "Insert Image" button on the top of the RWI editor. You'll see a dialog box. Paste this Imgur Direct Link into here. Also uncheck the "retrieve remote file and reference locally" - imgur.com is cached around the world, so no need to cache it on RWI. Now just click OK.
Now you're done!
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???????? Pimlico's Personal Recommendation Summary ????????
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Please use imgur.com for all of your forum pictures!
- It's free
- Very easy to use
- No terrible ads
- No "value-add" services such as printing
- You can EASILY link DIRECTLY to your images
- The amount of storage is pretty much unlimited
- The image hosting is very very fast and cached around the world
Thank you!!