Helppp! (a question about image-heavy posts on LJ)

[chamekke]

I'm working on a meta essay for lifein1973 that's *cough* just a bit image-heavy. The pics are in JPEG format and already optimized for the Web; that part's fine. But there are several dozen (at present), and even if I reduce the number somewhat and then split the essay into parts... that's still quite a lot. The task is intimidating enough that I've been

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[talkingtothesky]

Woot, I'm so excited for your meta! ♥

Photobucket's probably much quicker for uploading lots of images at once, but I find it almost impossible to retrieve the right links afterwards (i.e. the ones that take you directly to the images, where the URL ends in .jpg).

What I tend to do is upload to LJ Scrapbook, copy the links into Notepad, do all the <*img src="url"> stuff there, then copy into the html tab for the post.

[chamekke]

Thank you for the tip! Whichever on I end up using, I'll take your suggestion and do most of my HTML coding in Notepad. Cheers ♥

[thesmallhobbit]

Sorry, can't help at all, but the owl is lovely.

[chamekke]

It is, isn't it? It's got the most adorable sleepy eyes!

[lozenger8]

Photobucket used to be good for this, but now it sucks badtime. I guess scrapbook would be better, though still take time.

[chamekke]

Yes, I'm not sure why they changed PhotoBucket. It used to be much more user-friendly :-P

[phantym_56]

I'm pretty sure my method is not the fastest or easiest, but this is what I do:

My image-heavy things tend to be pictures that came together, whether screencaps or photos straight off my camera and they tend to have names like ABC657.jpg which means all I really have to think about is the number on the end.

I upload them all to Photobucket and then while they're processing, I open Notepad and type the HTML code and the first part of the address (the photobucket.com/user/album/ABC bit) and then I copy-paste that however many times, depending how many pictures I've got.

Then I just add the number of the image onto the end of each line so I end up with:

photobucket.com/user/album/ABC001.jpg
photobucket.com/user/album/ABC002.jpg
photobucket.com/user/album/ABC003.jpg

and so on and so on.

Then I copy-paste that into posting box. It takes quite a while but it strikes me as being much quicker than going through four or five Photobucket pages copying every individual URL.

[chamekke]

Ah, this is a brilliant suggestion! Thank you. I'll probably take some version of this approach. (I do prefer using PhotoBucket even if it hasn't got the most user-friendly interface, because it's still miles ahead of LJ Scrapbook IMO.)

And you're right about copying each individual URL, I want to avoid that like the plague, so your tip is terrific. Yay! ♥

[thirdbird_fic]

Photobucket is good for me but I've never had to deal with more than half a dozen images at a time. But I have to agree that the Lovely Owl is hysterical. The kittens are all alarmed at the noises I made while watching it.

[chamekke]

I've never been a particularly owly person, but this is indeed the most wonderful owl video EVER. And I can only imagine the entertaining noises you must have made. (What am I saying, I made them myself ;-)