Wild Orchid,please identify

[BillC]

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Where did you find it? Cynthia

[BillC]

Hi Cynthia, Found pic in a photo gallery without a caption, just that it was a wild orchid. I thought someone could tell me about it. Bill

[Anton]

It's a fly orchid Bill.

Would love to know how you put the image up.

I am still getting a message telling me my files are not valid.

No different to the ones I put up in the Pests section on scale.

[BillC]

Anton, I subscibed to Photobucket (free), then having logged in to the site I get a screen which says 'upload images and videos'. Alongside the 'choose an image field' there is a browse option. When I click on browse I get 'my pictures' folder available with heading, 'choose file'. I click on the pic then click 'open' and I am back in the photobkt screen with the details of the chosen pic in the box. Click 'upload field' and I see the pic on the screen. So the pic is now in the photobkt album and under the pic I see three fields- url, tag, and img. I log in to the Forum and open a new thread or open a post to a thread. The screen is now waiting for text or pics. Back to the photobkt screen and double click on img field to highlight then rightclick the field - click 'copy'; back to the forum screen and rightclick anywhere, click 'paste' and you should see your chosen pic gracing the post Hope you followed this highly detailed reply. Bill

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Test1:
http://www.pbase.com/schnitz/image/30701085/medium.jpg

Test2:


Cynthia

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Tee hee, tee hee. OK, here is what I did, after a lot of playing around. I broungt up my image on my picture hosting site. I changed to a smaller version (medium on pbase) so that the file size would be small (I am already using a low quality to shrink the file size). Then I added .jpg to the end of the address, since the address on pbase does not normally have this extension, then copied it to the clip board (used windows 'copy'). Then, in the O Geeks posting window, I clicked on the 'insert immage' button above the window, and OG opens a window with a 'http:' as a starter for your entry. I over wrote this with a paste from the clip board and clicked on what ever button this little window had. This put the address of my picture in the posting window with some sort of bracketted word on each end that I think was [imag]. Post and then there it is. Cynthia

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

[IMG] was the bookend lettering. This one was 'large' on pbase.

[Anton]

OK, looks like I may have to put them up on m site and link to it.

Really defeats the way the site originally worked, Oh well.............

[BillC]

Like your pics Cynthia, really nice stuff. I might try your system for uploading to O Geeks- it might be more simple than what I'm doing now!

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Bill, you might want to think twice about putting somebody elses picture on you web hosting site. Some picture owners get very unpleasant about this. The best thing to do is to get the address of the picture where you find it, and post it here, or maybe even link to it the way you would link to your own picture. Cynthia

[Anton]

Here's the image I am trying to upload from my Web page, and OG won't even accept the URL either.
http://www.users.on.net/~op_ink/AD/Spider_Orchid.pdf

This pdf file is a bit bigger than the OG site will accept, but I only did that so that you can see it, due to the fact I can't upload it.

This is a small Australian native called a Spider Orchid, and I can supply the botanical name if you are interested, thought you would like to see one seeing we are on the topic of natives.

Still can't work out why the site won't allow SIMPLE uploads???

[jerrymeola]

Anton,

The problem is that you are trying to upload an Adobe PDF file. The site does not accept this type of photo file.

The bulletin board also will not accept Adobe Photoshop files .psd

It will also reject files over 100K. Otherwise it would fill the server rapidly. Also larger files do not display properly,

Convert you photos to .jpg and reduce the size to 600 pixels on the longest side, then save it at quality level 6-7 and you should have a 40-60K file that will display an excellent 6-8 inch photo on everyones screen.

Most computer terminal display at 72 pixels per inch (dpi) and some high resolution at 96 dpi. Any file larger than this will not fit on a screen and you have to move around the image t see it all.

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Test 800 wide:
Epipactis gigantea, blooming in Arizona.
Cynthia

Seems to work fine.

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Test 1512 wide, 320K:
Epipactis plant
Cynthia

This works too.

[Aniko]

Hi, Jerry!
As additional option we have the attachments: the simplest way of posting pictures directly from our computer.Earlier I used it but doesn't work any more.
WHY?(I've just tried an 600x450 JPEG, size 63 KB.)

Uploading to a website seems to much work, only for illustrate a question...
Aniko.

[BillC]

Just thought i would test it for size, Bill

[Anton]

Jerry, I only put the pdf up for people to see the flower. In the upload directions it says that you CAN do pdf files.

The jpg file is well under the required dimensions, but still won't allow me to upload it. I keep getting an "invalid file" message. There is something wrong somewhere.

I can't even change my avitar which is well below the required specs. :/

[Luci]

Anton: It is doing me the same way...all I get is Invalid File also. I uploaded once before and it worked without any problem, but in the last few weeks or more I can not upload either???

[Anton]

Luci, I have approached both Dave and Jerry, but to no avail.

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Experimenting:

http://www.orchidgeeks.com/gallery/s....php?i=796&c=2

Well, tried using the address above by removing the &c=2 and adding .jpg and using the resulting address with the picture insertion button, but you get a hypertext address that goes to the same place as the one above.

Cynthia

[Aniko]

Yes, the Gallery is working, but the attachments are NOT...I think not all of the images have to be part of the Gallery, many are just illustrations for a better understanding of the problems.Attachments are an easy way to show the facts for a quick diagnosis for example, or to share some news.
Aniko.