Glad I never used it.

 

It's not a small fee, either. I've moved to another site.

 

Another real bummer about PB is I downloaded all my photos to move to another site. The downloads are the the original size I uploaded them at. They are way less resolution.

So far I'm finding "Flickr" to work pretty well.

 

A bunch of useless text in the LJ "Embdding Pictures" guide RE: Photobucket too.

 

A bunch of useless text in the LJ "Embdding Pictures" guide RE: Photobucket too.

Sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? Well, it is. For this guide, we're going to walk through the necessary steps for inserting an image onto your LumberJocks entry using one of the easier-to-use websites called Photobucket. If you would prefer more of a step-by-step form of instruction, check out the How To process for this same procedure.

Photobucket Overview
Photobucket is simply a photo-hosting website. There are two levels of Photobucket accounts; Free and Pro. The Free Account is the standard and it takes a total of about 30 seconds to set it up. It costs nothing to do so - it's free, if that wasn't obvious - and their on-screen assistance makes setting up your account pretty much effortless.

Photobucket Albums
When you first open your account, you will automatically be given a photo album. In order to better organize the photos you load onto your Photobucket account, you can create sub-albums. You can create as many sub-albums as you want or need! One great way to use this feature is to create a sub-album for all of your different projects to help keep them organized.

An Overview Of Uploading Pictures To Photobucket
After you've set up your account and created whatever sub-albums you want, you have to upload images into tho

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

Huh?

 

http://lumberjocks.com/help/writing/embedding-pictures

 

 

^ Yep, that's the idea!

 

Photobucket sucks big time now. It was used to be awesome. Now it's simply not usable. I have hundreds of pics that are going to go into cyber space, because I'm not willing to pay a hefty fee to see what were previously my free pics.

 

I'm just about done with the download of over 3,200 pics from PB, and the versions there are getting deleted when all is said and done. Then I'll send a nice 'Thank You' to them before deleting my account altogether.

 

I m just about done with the download of over 3,200 pics from PB, and the versions there are getting deleted when all is said and done. Then I ll send a nice Thank You to them before deleting my account altogether.

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

Welcome to the cloud guys.

 

Thanks for the welcome, Don. I like what you've done with the place! ;-)

 

It's like plane Heaven:

 

http://lumberjocks.com/help/writing/embedding-pictures

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

I may just have that entire page removed.

Let me think through some options.

P.S. I have always used Flickr as needed but mostly I upload pictures from my computer or phone.

 

I m just about done with the download of over 3,200 pics from PB, and the versions there are getting deleted when all is said and done. Then I ll send a nice Thank You to them before deleting my account altogether.

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

Welcome to the cloud guys.

- Don W

You took the words right out of my mouth Don.

 

I would never use Photobucket, or any other photo hosting service, to store my most valued photographs. They will almost always reduce the file size by something like 90% and they have no obligation whatsoever to keep them safe unless you pay for it. I don't use one at all right now but if I did, I would only use the service for hosting and keep original backups locally.

 

Valid (and current) instructable for posting pictures on LJs here.

 

I would never use Photobucket, or any other photo hosting service, to store my most valued photographs. They will almost always reduce the file size by something like 90% and they have no obligation whatsoever to keep them safe unless you pay for it. I don t use one at all right now but if I did, I would only use the service for hosting and keep original backups locally.

- ArtMann

We all have our opinion.

Anything digital need multiple back ups. I have back up at home, in a cloud (sumgmug) paid, and they don't reduce the size of you photos. I also have a back that is kept at my brother house. You need originals in more that one place.

 

Damn smitty. I only had to go through 20% of what you did and it was an everlasting itch bay. Luckily I post a lot of useless stuff too so it could've been worse.

 

No change or update. I'll stop caring / unfollow now.

 

No change or update. I ll stop caring / unfollow now.

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

I have a ticket in to the tech support staff for this.

Unfortunately it is deep in the code and they have been swamped, so it may take a bit yet.

 

If you pay enough money, Photobucket will probably keep your pictures just as well as Smugmug. That isn't really what we are talking about is it? I am trying to warn people that free on line photo hosting is worth approximately what they paid for it. Photobucket isn't the only website that could cut people off or shrink their images to 600 X 800 or whatever.

I have been saving digital imagery since 1986 as part of a graphic design business my wife owned. That is before digital cameras even existed. Images had to be scanned from a large chemical process print on a drum scanner and took hours per image. Over the next 30 years, I have accumulated a lot of images. As far as I can tell, my library is about 60 gigabytes. It would take many weeks at normal cable modem speeds to even get them uploaded. At some point, local off site storage becomes the only option. That is what the wedding photographer that shot my daughter's wedding does. If I had any desire to show my photography to the public, I would use a pay site like you did.

I would never use Photobucket, or any other photo hosting service, to store my most valued photographs. They will almost always reduce the file size by something like 90% and they have no obligation whatsoever to keep them safe unless you pay for it. I don t use one at all right now but if I did, I would only use the service for hosting and keep original backups locally.

- ArtMann
We all have our opinion.

Anything digital need multiple back ups. I have back up at home, in a cloud (sumgmug) paid, and they don t reduce the size of you photos. I also have a back that is kept at my brother house. You need originals in more that one place.

- AlaskaGuy

 

No change or update. I ll stop caring / unfollow now.

- Smitty_Cabinetshop

I have a ticket in to the tech support staff for this.

Unfortunately it is deep in the code and they have been swamped, so it may take a bit yet.

- Cricket

Cricket - Any update on the change?

Smitty - thanks for pointing this out

 

The bogus LJ instructions that suggest PB are still being followed.

http://lumberjocks.com/topics/263353#reply-4481753

 

Did you miss the phrase, "unless you pay for it"? You aren't using a free service. My comment only applied to those who expect to get something for nothing in perpetuity.

I would never use Photobucket, or any other photo hosting service, to store my most valued photographs. They will almost always reduce the file size by something like 90% and they have no obligation whatsoever to keep them safe unless you pay for it. I don t use one at all right now but if I did, I would only use the service for hosting and keep original backups locally.

- ArtMann
We all have our opinion.

Anything digital need multiple back ups. I have back up at home, in a cloud (sumgmug) paid, and they don t reduce the size of you photos. I also have a back that is kept at my brother house. You need originals in more that one place.

- AlaskaGuy