My samurai wearing their flags now

[GrahamB]

(can anyone tell me why my photos still look small here compared to other members' photos, altho mine are above 90kb)

There are two ways to display photos, cheng. Attachments (which you used) and links. With a link, the photo is stored on another website so it doesn't eat up bandwidth on this site. Each time a message is displayed on this site, the server fetches the picture data from the other site and displays it at the size it is provided, so all that is stored here is a small instruction about where to find the picture. (That explanation is probably totally wrong, but it's how I think about it!).

I think there is a topic explaining picture links, but I couldn't find it when I had a quick look just now. What you need is an account at an image-hosting website (I use photobucket, where you can get an account for free). You upload your pictures to their website, copy a link for each picture onto your clipboard and paste it into your message here at PF, using the 'image' button (or by typing [img.] before and [/img.] after the link, missing out the dots).

Hope that helps!

[cheng]

thanks Macruran &Gordon!

and big thanks for taking the trouble to repeat all these here GrahamB
....someday I'll upload my photos in the clouds but until then, at <100kb, that's as big as I can show my photos here.....nothing wrong with my photo editing software, then! 

[GrahamB]

....someday I'll upload my photos in the clouds

I love that phrase, pure poetry. It could be one of Randy Crawford's:

"One day I'll fly away, find another site to post on.."

[Macruran]

 

I'd just like to add that

What you need is an account at an image-hosting website (I use photobucket, where you can get an account for free).

If you use imgur you don't even need an account. This is a little better because there is no storage limit for you.

Sadly though the fate of all image hotlinks seems to be to vanish over time. Look at posts in this forum from ten years ago: wildernesses of missing pictures.

[cheng]

If you use imgur you don't even need an account. This is a little better because there is no storage limit for you.

Sadly though the fate of all image hotlinks seems to be to vanish over time. Look at posts in this forum from ten years ago: wildernesses of missing pictures.

thanks and right, when I check up old threads, some are with missing photos making the thread difficult to fully comprehend....no guarantee that any free storage will last for a long time 

[cheng]

improved their flags and took individual group photos so they are easier to see but I didnt bother to reposition each man for the different angles nor will will see the helmeted samurai's faces since I'm taking from a higher angle to show the flags.....

[cheng]

I couldnt accept those pink purple playmo parts until now 

[cheng]

their death head kamon did not have cross bones nor lower jaws mostly

[playmofire]

Your new photo angle shows off the quality of your work still more, cheng, and gives a good idea of how dramatic a samurai army would look in real life.

[cheng]

thanks Gordon...tried to improve my photo...this one's better from ground level