PUH-LEEZE!
Yrs trly holds all his image-files in PhotoBucket.
So that every image you see in this here blog is via an HTML image-tag (e.g. <img src="??????????????????">
<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span>Caption. <span style="font-style:italic;">(Photo by BobbaLew.)</span></span>) embedded in the body-text — this site interprets HTML — that indicates an image-source at a PhotoBucket http address.
The carets make those portions of the tag invisible. I add a caption and overwrite the photo-credit when I have to.
That isn’t how it was long ago. This site had its own image-repository, which I think was Picassa.
But then suddenly that no longer worked — perhaps I had maxxed it.
So my wife and I set about finding some other image-repository, and ended up with PhotoBucket.
I upload an image to PhotoBucket as a digital image-file, and then this blog-site displays the picture via the HTML-tag and http address.
Apparently there’s a lot more to PhotoBucket than what I do with it. And in fact my image-files are pretty small.
They are only 72 pixels-per-inch, 5.597 inches wide.
You can go hog-wild with resolution and image-size.
My camera shoots 300 pixels-per-inch, and could go much higher.
But 72 pixels-per-inch, 5.597 inches wide is what displays correctly on this blog-site. Exceed 72 pixels-per-inch and the image displays too big.
Six inches seems to be this blog-site’s default column-width.
I suppose I could dork around.
But I use BlogSpot’s default settings since my whole point is cranking words.
So last night I set about cranking all the pictures I would use in my August Calendar-Report.
I scan each calendar-picture, then dicker a little with my Photoshop-Elements. This includes resizing.
I then upload my finished picture to PhotoBucket.
When I first started using PhotoBucket, perhaps five years ago, there were no ads.
But now, like all marvelous computer-apps, PhotoBucket has resorted to ads to enhance its bottom-line — or avoid bankruptcy.
I didn’t mind at first. PhotoBucket was running ads of maybe 5-10 seconds.
YouTube does this too, although it gives the option of turning off the ad — or waiting until it ends in perhaps 15 seconds.
PhotoBucket’s solution is to allow you to go ad-free; for a price, of course.
My Station-Inn webcam can be ad-free. It’s only $8.95 per month, and I’ve sprung for that. If it’s not ad-free, it shuts off after five minutes, then runs an ad you may be able to skip when you reconnect. Or perhaps not. —Some macho baseball-star hawking “five-hour energy.”
But for what little I do with PhotoBucket I see no sense in going ad-free.
So I upload a picture, then PhotoBucket wants me to rename it. During which their ad starts playing.
Recently it was off-road bicyclists crashing down a path to frenzied rock-music.
I might hear five seconds of it before switching to something else, which shuts it down.
Meanwhile, that’s five seconds of being blasted across the room.
Last night it was an ad for a war-game.
All-of-a-sudden noisy explosions and flaming fireballs. Tanks got blasted to smithereens.
I hurriedly rename my picture-file so I can shut off the racket = switch out of the ad.
The ads have become even more irritating; I have to be sure they don’t scare the bejeepers out of me.
But I ain’t about to go ad-free with PhotoBucket.
• “HTML” is Hyper-Text Markup Language, a background instruction system made invisible in text by surrounding carets (“<” and “>”). I use it only to embolden, underline and italicize text, although it can do other things. I do paragraph drops with it. My picture-inserts and links are also via HTML-tag.
• My beloved wife of over 44 years died of cancer April 17th, 2012. I miss her dearly.
• “Station-Inn” is the bed-and-breakfast I stay at when I’m chasing trains in the Altoona area. Station-Inn is actually in Cresson (PA, “KRESS-in”) on the western slope of the railroad up Allegheny Mountain. Station-Inn caters to railfans like me; I’m a railfan and have been since age-2 — I’m 70. Station-Inn has a video-camera aimed at the railroad across the street. With it I can watch trains passing Station-Inn over the Internet.
So that every image you see in this here blog is via an HTML image-tag (e.g. <img src="??????????????????">
<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span>Caption. <span style="font-style:italic;">(Photo by BobbaLew.)</span></span>) embedded in the body-text — this site interprets HTML — that indicates an image-source at a PhotoBucket http address.
The carets make those portions of the tag invisible. I add a caption and overwrite the photo-credit when I have to.
That isn’t how it was long ago. This site had its own image-repository, which I think was Picassa.
But then suddenly that no longer worked — perhaps I had maxxed it.
So my wife and I set about finding some other image-repository, and ended up with PhotoBucket.
I upload an image to PhotoBucket as a digital image-file, and then this blog-site displays the picture via the HTML-tag and http address.
Apparently there’s a lot more to PhotoBucket than what I do with it. And in fact my image-files are pretty small.
They are only 72 pixels-per-inch, 5.597 inches wide.
You can go hog-wild with resolution and image-size.
My camera shoots 300 pixels-per-inch, and could go much higher.
But 72 pixels-per-inch, 5.597 inches wide is what displays correctly on this blog-site. Exceed 72 pixels-per-inch and the image displays too big.
Six inches seems to be this blog-site’s default column-width.
I suppose I could dork around.
But I use BlogSpot’s default settings since my whole point is cranking words.
So last night I set about cranking all the pictures I would use in my August Calendar-Report.
I scan each calendar-picture, then dicker a little with my Photoshop-Elements. This includes resizing.
I then upload my finished picture to PhotoBucket.
When I first started using PhotoBucket, perhaps five years ago, there were no ads.
But now, like all marvelous computer-apps, PhotoBucket has resorted to ads to enhance its bottom-line — or avoid bankruptcy.
I didn’t mind at first. PhotoBucket was running ads of maybe 5-10 seconds.
YouTube does this too, although it gives the option of turning off the ad — or waiting until it ends in perhaps 15 seconds.
PhotoBucket’s solution is to allow you to go ad-free; for a price, of course.
My Station-Inn webcam can be ad-free. It’s only $8.95 per month, and I’ve sprung for that. If it’s not ad-free, it shuts off after five minutes, then runs an ad you may be able to skip when you reconnect. Or perhaps not. —Some macho baseball-star hawking “five-hour energy.”
But for what little I do with PhotoBucket I see no sense in going ad-free.
So I upload a picture, then PhotoBucket wants me to rename it. During which their ad starts playing.
Recently it was off-road bicyclists crashing down a path to frenzied rock-music.
I might hear five seconds of it before switching to something else, which shuts it down.
Meanwhile, that’s five seconds of being blasted across the room.
Last night it was an ad for a war-game.
All-of-a-sudden noisy explosions and flaming fireballs. Tanks got blasted to smithereens.
I hurriedly rename my picture-file so I can shut off the racket = switch out of the ad.
The ads have become even more irritating; I have to be sure they don’t scare the bejeepers out of me.
But I ain’t about to go ad-free with PhotoBucket.
• “HTML” is Hyper-Text Markup Language, a background instruction system made invisible in text by surrounding carets (“<” and “>”). I use it only to embolden, underline and italicize text, although it can do other things. I do paragraph drops with it. My picture-inserts and links are also via HTML-tag.
• My beloved wife of over 44 years died of cancer April 17th, 2012. I miss her dearly.
• “Station-Inn” is the bed-and-breakfast I stay at when I’m chasing trains in the Altoona area. Station-Inn is actually in Cresson (PA, “KRESS-in”) on the western slope of the railroad up Allegheny Mountain. Station-Inn caters to railfans like me; I’m a railfan and have been since age-2 — I’m 70. Station-Inn has a video-camera aimed at the railroad across the street. With it I can watch trains passing Station-Inn over the Internet.
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