How to Upload Pictures and Create Albums in TFP

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DID YOU KNOW …….. you have the ability to upload images and create albums for future use here in TFP? This is a great option for a few reasons:
- Organize your photos by category to meet your needs.
- Eliminates the need for third-party providers who charge subscriptions or have annoying adds.
- Images saved to TFP remain on TFP servers without interruption from other sites.
- Provides various choices of how to link and display your image(s) to a post (full view, thumbnail, etc).

ADDING AN IMAGE DIRECTLY INTO A POST:
1. If all you want to do is quickly add a photo to a post, simply click on the INSERT IMAGE icon in the toolbar. Once posted, this may add the image to your overall media group of uploaded images without placing it into any album.
2. If you already have a photo saved to an album or your media gallery, you can click the CAMERA icon to select that photo.

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UPLOAD IMAGES AND/OR CREATE ALBUMS AS FOLLOWS:
1. Click on FORUM from the TFP main page.
2. Click on CREATE (green button at right)
3. Select UPLOAD NEW MEDIA
4. Next you have the option to upload your image to any of the existing TFP categories listed or CREATE PERSONAL ALBUM of your own.

NOTE: You can also get to the CREATE (green button) from the MEDIA tab listed at the top of the Forum page.

VIEWING & USING YOUR SAVED IMAGES:
You can see all of your images/albums by clicking on your PROFILE from the main menu. From your profile, you should see an ALBUMS tab to view all albums and photos. You can also get to your pictures by clicking on the Media (Number) located just under your profile banner photo. When you click on the “number” of photos, it will take you to a page that displays all of your images. There is a Navigation menu to the left that will allow you to sort/find images.

ORGANIZING & MOVING YOUR SAVED IMAGES:
Once in your album, you should be able to select one (or multiple) images by clicking the check box in each pic. Then you should see a pop-up from below that will give you options of things to do, one of them being "Move Media Items". Then you just follow the prompts as needed.

USING A PHOTO:
Once you upload an image, you should see a thumbnail for each of your images in your album. If you click on the thumbnail, it simply shows the picture as a pop-up view. But if you hold the mouse curser over the image, a shaded area containing the photo details will pop-up for that image (name, author, date, etc). Click on the image title itself (i.e. pool party.jpg), and that will take you to a details page where (on the right) you have a section called “Share this Media”. You can copy the image link of your choice (four different link methods) that meets your needs, then paste that link into a thread/post.
 
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Nice write up.

I’ve been using the photo gallery since the site was updated years ago and it has improved. The biggest issue I have is that it sucks from a mobile device perspective, particularly with Apple devices. Desktop use is fine, but Apple uses its own proprietary HEIC image format which can be problematic. Yes, you can export Apple images as JPEG or PNG, but it’s an extra step and so it’s annoying. I don’t often sit in front of my Mac and so mobile applications need to be as user friendly as possible. That was the beauty of PhotoBucket and other 3rd party image services - they knew how to do image uploads and processing properly and made it easy to use those images.

The gallery feature on TFP is fine but it’s far from perfect. Nowadays I don’t bother using it but just “cut and paste” images as needed and let the backend software deal with it (formatting, duplicates, etc).
 
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Feedback is appreciated. Improving the gallery and its functions is on Lee's to-do list. :goodjob:

Yep, I know. Image processing and hosting is a giant PITA for the most part. Problems often come from device-specific/format issues and there’s no easy way to solve it without throwing a lot of hardware and software development at it. When you’re a for-profit company with products and revenue, you just throw lots of man-power at it. When you’re a non-profit entity whose primary mission isn’t software development, you have to rely on whatever is available and try to hack together a workable solution that doesn’t cost too much or is overly burdensome. @Leebo does the best that can be expected given the constraints.
 
Apple uses its own proprietary HEIC image format which can be problematic.
This photo is from my iPhone in HEIC format, uploaded to my media here at TFP and then added from there to this post.
Maybe an iOS update fixed this recently.

Matt needs to upgrade his iPhone 4 to newer technology. :poke:
 
Matt- on your phone 📱
go to settings—> camera—> formats—> then pick Most Compatible ✅
Problem solved. The setting will stay until you change it. No need to jump through hoops for each picture.
Ebay is the same way -
I have an iPhone se2020 & this works for me
 
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