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[Zorglorfian]

Recently Windrider thumbnailed my large image. How do I thumbnail something myself? Thanks!

[Reznas]

Recently Windrider thumbnailed my large image. How do I thumbnail something myself? Thanks!

By making a smaller version of the image, and linking it to the larger version on whatever site it's uploaded to.

-Rez

EDIT: You can also take a part of an image, such as the head/mask, and use that as the thumbnail. You may need to resize still, however. Hope this helps!

Edited by -Reznas-, May 10 2012 - 10:49 AM.

[-Windrider-]

In addition, if you are uploading to Brickshelf or Majhost (and I believe Photobucket as well), the site will do all the work for you. When viewing the folder to which you have uploaded your images, you will notice that the array of images on the page is comprised of thumbnails. Right-click the image that you need, and copy the image location. You now have the URL of the image's thumbnail. For Bshelf and Majhost, it should look like this:

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/your username/folder name/thumb/image name.extension_thumb.jpg

When I need to thumbnail an oversize image, I just go into the BBCode of the post and use the formula above: after having copied the original URL, I place "/thumb" after the folder name and "thumb.jpg" at the end. The thumbnails will always be JPEGs. I then make the thumbnail link to the original image using the original URL that I copied.

[Baltarc]

Back when the new forums came online, avatars had to be over 200x200 to work properly, right? Did this change with the recent upgrade? Because my avatar is 168x176 and it works fine.

[Sumiki]

That issue was fixed before the most recent upgrade.

[Gatanui]

Back when the new forums came online, avatars had to be over 200x200 to work properly, right? Did this change with the recent upgrade? Because my avatar is 168x176 and it works fine.

Avatars always worked properly with a size lower than 200x200 px, it´s just that there were issues with updating the avatar in the profile if the size was lower. That has been fixed with the past upgrade already.

-Gata

[Grantaire]

I'm having a problem with my banners... I used the standard url image, but when I click the picture it opens the URL of the picture in another tab, not the topic I had linked. Anyone know why this is happening?

[BZP Blade]

Hmm; did you double check the url for the link? Obviously the banner URL is correct, but if you accidentally copy/pasted the wrong URL at one point, or thought you copied it, and instead pasted the previous URL, that would cause the problems.

However, I can't really give a proper answer, since I'm not sure of the coding of your signature.

/EDIT: Wait, you do have a url tag around the images, right? Because I'm not getting any hover preview when I put my cursor over the banners...

Edited by Pit: Arrow of Light, Jun 13 2012 - 03:01 PM.

[Sumiki]

Your code should be like this:

[url="TOPIC"][img]PICTURE[/img][/url]

If it's like this, and still happens, I suggest posting the code to your signature in code tags so we can see the issue.

[Grantaire]

[acronym=My first vote.][url="http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=5222&#entry293945"][img]http://www.majhost.com/gallery/zarayna/RPG/SFTS/copy_of_strike_from_the_shadows.jpg[/img][/url][/acronym]

[Bfahome]

I believe the problem is with the acronym tags.

[url="http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=5222&#entry293945"][acronym=My first vote.][img]http://www.majhost.com/gallery/zarayna/RPG/SFTS/copy_of_strike_from_the_shadows.jpg[/img][/acronym][/url]

Yup. Put the acronym tags inside the url tags and it should work fine.

[Grantaire]

That was it, it works now. Thanks!

[Obsessionist]

MOCpages had a crash a while back where many users lost their images. Now, I am one of the lucky few whose images (22 MOCs worth) are still lost, and not retrievable at all. My PC died shortly after the crash, I can't re-upload the pictures either. Some of the creations were posted on BZP, though. I know that they were hosted elsewhere, but would BZP have any files saved or something? At least one of the creations was in a BBCC, would that entail a BBC staff having an image somewhere? This is my last hope to get any of these back, any help or images at all would be appreciated.

[Gatanui]

MOCpages had a crash a while back where many users lost their images. Now, I am one of the lucky few whose images (22 MOCs worth) are still lost, and not retrievable at all. My PC died shortly after the crash, I can't re-upload the pictures either. Some of the creations were posted on BZP, though. I know that they were hosted elsewhere, but would BZP have any files saved or something? At least one of the creations was in a BBCC, would that entail a BBC staff having an image somewhere? This is my last hope to get any of these back, any help or images at all would be appreciated.

Your chance may be asking the host who posted the contest polls, they may have saved for creating the thumbnails.

-Gata

[Toa of the Nova Corps]

I have drawn a picture with no constraction figures in it, just Lego men and blocks. Where do I post this, General Art or another place?
Also, how do I reduce the size of a picture into under 800x300 pixels?

[Reznas]

I have drawn a picture with no constraction figures in it, just Lego men and blocks. Where do I post this, General Art or another place?
Also, how do I reduce the size of a picture into under 800x300 pixels?

As quoted from the General Art rules and guidelines:

Since June 2011 all four Artwork forums are now open to LEGO artwork in general, not just Bionicle artwork. So Hero Factory, Atlantis, City, whatever, it all goes in one of these four forum divisions.

So to answer your question, General Art would be the way to go.

-Rez

Edited by .:Reznas:., Aug 06 2012 - 10:44 AM.

[Gatanui]

I have drawn a picture with no constraction figures in it, just Lego men and blocks. Where do I post this, General Art or another place?
Also, how do I reduce the size of a picture into under 800x300 pixels?

For actually resizing it, you need an image-editing software. Free software you can try is MS Paint, Paint.NET or GIMP.

-Gata

[~Shockwave~]

ok, so I would like to change my profile pic/avatar. but it doesn't seem to like flickr's url for it, and i cannot copy paste it.
Help?

[Reznas]

ok, so I would like to change my profile pic/avatar. but it doesn't seem to like flickr's url for it, and i cannot copy paste it.
Help?

Make sure to deeplink the image so that you're not linking to anything with the site's background behind it. If that doesn't work, just use brickshelf or something. It may be a problem with flicker.

-Rez

[~Shockwave~]

ok, so I can save it, just had to explore a little more. thanks!

[-Windrider-]

So some things have changed with the BBCode. The code used to insert images has changed to this:

[IMG=URL of image here]

However, things have been really buggy lately and I recommend that everyone use the rich text editor buttons to insert images into posts:

Click the button and paste in the image's URL.

 

To turn an image into a link using the RTE, first insert your image. Select it by clicking on it and then click the button and paste in the URL of the link.

Edited by -Windrider-, Dec 12 2012 - 11:13 PM.

[takua123]

Hi all, so i've recently decided to be active on bzpower. I attempted to change my signature, adding a picture in, but it just said:

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bzpower/public_html/board/converge_public/applications/core/extensions/usercpForms.php:2313) in/home/bzpower/public_html/board/converge_public/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 114

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bzpower/public_html/board/converge_public/applications/core/extensions/usercpForms.php:2313) in/home/bzpower/public_html/board/converge_public/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 127

 

If it helps, here's the photo: http://25.media.tumb...c8ll2o1_500.jpg

 

I have no clue what happening, and I'd love to find out. thanks! 

[-Windrider-]

How did you attempt to insert the image into your signature? Did you use the rich text editor ( button) or BBCode IMG tags? In either case, did you use the exact URL that you pasted above?

[Zeene]

So some things have changed with the BBCode. The code used to insert images has changed to this:

[IMG=URL of image here]

However, things have been really buggy lately and I recommend that everyone use the rich text editor buttons to insert images into posts:
Click the button and paste in the image's URL.
 
To turn an image into a link using the RTE, first insert your image. Select it by clicking on it and then click the button and paste in the URL of the link.

Sorry, but I just don't see how this could be what's causing the issues.
First of all, when inserting an image through the RTE (Or, more accurately: WYSIWYG editor), let's just say http://example.com/image.png, it will still result in the BBCode

[img=http://example.com/image.png]

Second, the WYSIWYG editor is an abstraction layer for the Source-mode, not the other way around. It already renders what (should be) the final message, while generating the BBCode used to create said message. If anything, it would either be the WYSIWYG editor generating the incorrect BBCode, or users creating overly complex and/or improperly nested tags.

Summarized: How can Source mode be causing the problems, when using the visual implementation in the RTE generates the exact same BBCode?

[fishers64]

The easiest way to insert an image these days is to right-click on an image on your image-hosting site of choice, select "Copy Image" and paste it into the RTE. Works every time.