How to embed a picture in a forum article?

[Scott Mark]

RRP –

What you’ve said gives me an idea: would it be possible to have a “test” category that was MEANT to be deleted? As in, either automatically or with implicit consent from poster, articles would be removed after a few days? It would give us a place to learn how to post, without permanently cluttering up the forum OR the drybagsteak.com hard drives.

I understand that it might be a manual process – but you wouldn’t have to wonder if the author meant for it to be deleted.

I know that learning to post here is mostly a one-time activity. But the goal is to attract more and more new users…

[Ron Pratt]

The delete capability is an administrative feature. I use it very carefully. The need came into being over a year ago when we became a regular target by some weirdo who was posting porn here.

[Scott Mark]

I admit: it is a goal of mine that every picture I post here would be considered “food-porn”

But your message is clear and well-taken.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

toasty wrote:

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Well. I’ll be doggoned. The picture is there.

But how do I get multiple pictures into a single article? Is that how the “img” button works? Or how do I get an image into the beginning of an article?

Thanks for getting me this far. Just a little more to go.

Toasty, I don’t think it’s possible to upload multiple pics when posting.. but I think you can upload 1 picture and submit, then click the red ‘edit’ button on your post and upload another to the same post. Also picasa and facebook are two other good ways to host images.

[Scott Mark]

OK. I yield on this one. I’ve created an account on photobucket and perhaps I’ll have time to upload a bunch of pics there, and send them to the group.

But, in truth, at this point I don’t think I have anything to show the group that hasn’t been shown before. I think that our techniques for getting a good seal are more similar than different. I think that our methods of trimming off the hard part are more similar than different.

From there, it’s an interesting question to me: do you grill a steak meant to go on a platter, or do you grill a steak that’s meant to be cut in half and THEN go on the platter? In other words, are you serving your people a steak that is grilled on one side, or on two?

This question intrigues me.

[Ron Pratt]

toasty wrote:

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From there, it’s an interesting question to me: do you grill a steak meant to go on a platter, or do you grill a steak that’s meant to be cut in half and THEN go on the platter? In other words, are you serving your people a steak that is grilled on one side, or on two?

This question intrigues me.

If I’m serving steaks then each person gets their own steak. OTOH if I’m serving prime rib for company I leave it in one piece and then carve at the table or in the kitchen depending on how formal or loosey-goosey the company is! OTOH if it’s a prime rib for just my wife and I we both prefer the combination taste of a PR split after the cook so we both can enjoy the rare meat as well as the seared other side which was enhanced with a favorite home made rub.
Ron

[Ron Pratt]

beefy wrote:

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Toasty, I don’t think it’s possible to upload multiple pics when posting.. but I think you can upload 1 picture and submit, then click the red ‘edit’ button on your post and upload another to the same post. Also picasa and facebook are two other good ways to host images.

Beefy, yes you can load multiple pictures throughout the text if you use Photo Bucket, but Toasty does not want to use that method. I’m just telling you and to remind other readers…
Ron

[Scott Mark]

RRP wrote:

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beefy wrote:

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Toasty, I don’t think it’s possible to upload multiple pics when posting.. but I think you can upload 1 picture and submit, then click the red ‘edit’ button on your post and upload another to the same post. Also picasa and facebook are two other good ways to host images.

Beefy, yes you can load multiple pictures throughout the text if you use Photo Bucket, but Toasty does not want to use that method. I’m just telling you and to remind other readers…
Ron

RRP – I believe you. I think you’ve got the definitive answer.

It leaves me with the question – what is the button labelled “[ img ]” for?

But I don’t expect you to know all the ins and outs about the forum software, don’t worry about it. I’ve created an account on photobucket and at some point I’ll take some time out of the schedule to learn how to use it.

Can photobucket resize pictures? The ones I take with my camera tend to be way too many pixels.

Can photobucket resize picture files? Oh – HOH! Hang on – if the picture is hosted on photobucket, does drybagsteak.com care how large the picture file is? Come to think of it – does drybagsteak.com care how many pixels the picture is?

Because I can add one picture to (the end of) an article, here’s an image of my ribeye vacuum sealed (Sinbo) and then tensioned in (yes, NEW) hose. Went into the hose and fridge Saturday. I’ll probably cut the hose off Thursday.

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[Scott Mark]

The “final” answer (final for me, anyway) is from the people in charge of the web and forum software. They say that only one image can be uploaded, although an article can be “built” using the “Edit” function, adding one image per edit session.

Nobody seems to know what the button marked [ i m g ] is for.

[Ron Pratt]

toasty wrote:

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They say that only one image can be uploaded, although an article can be “built” using the “Edit” function, adding one image per edit session.

toasty, apparently the problem is I can tell you what time it is, but since I can’t build you a clock then you don’t want to believe me!

This thread plus the pictures is all being made in one pass – no editing, revising or anything other than using PhotoBucket.

So you see it CAN be done.

Ron

PS – think I’ll go have one of these!

[Scott Mark]

Um, let’s be fair. Sometimes information posted here is wrong – take a look at posting #1610. It’s incorrect. And the presence of the [ i m g ] button is _still_ unexplained.

But I’ve given in- the web software authors indicate that I can only do a single photo without an external hosting site, so I’ve signed up to photobucket and uploaded a bunch of photos (VERY high-res – and I’d appreciate some advice on what to do about that – best thing would be a reduced-size image in the article, and if you click on it you get the high-res version) but I don’t know how to do that yet.

At the moment I’m looking forward to a major post-Christmas / New Year’s event with a 37-day sirloin and a 21-day ribeye. Maybe I should postpone the ribeye for a week, but on such a festive occasion I’d like to offer the guests a choice. Yeah, and maybe a lobster choice as well. Damn the Clam Digger and his precedents. Next thing you know I’ll be ordering a Big Green Egg.

Your photo raises another question for me — I like a Bloody Mary, but I’m so addicted to beef that I like the Bloody Bull variant – the kind with beef bflavor – better. So, I’d like to ask for input on how to get huge beefiness into a drink.

[Ron Pratt]

toasty wrote:

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Your photo raises another question for me — I like a Bloody Mary, but I’m so addicted to beef that I like the Bloody Bull variant – the kind with beef bflavor – better. So, I’d like to ask for input on how to get huge beefiness into a drink.

Actually toasty that picture was of a Bloody Bull! I kept tweaking an au jus recipe to serve hot with prime rib that I have egged and hence have no natural au jus. I too like a BB and one day mixed some left over au jus and discovered it gave a delicious twang!

Here’s my recipe:

RRP’s Au Jus Recipe

Basic recipe off Internet which I tweaked 12 times so it’s mine!

1 14 oz Swanson Beef Broth (box – not the can)
1 10-1/2 ounce can of Campbell’s French Onion soup
½ of the soup can cold water
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon of garlic salt
2 Wyler’s brand beef bouillon cubes

Bring ingredients to a boil in saucepan, letting it boil for 1 minute then
strain and discard onions. Serve au jus dipping sauce hot. Can be made 2
days ahead. Makes 3 cups. BTW I also make a batch of this and then pour
it in large ice cube trays. Two melted cubes make a wonderful Bloody Bull!

Now – about using Photo Bucket – here is a lengthy, but I believe COMPLETE write up on using it. You might want to just save it to file rather than print it since it is so long and would eat up an ink cartridge in no time!

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/howtopostaphoto.htm

Of late the http:// has not been showing up but I’m sure you know how to cut and paste. Good luck, toasty!!!

Ron

[Scott Mark]

OK – first test on using photobucket – right here, right now.

This is am image of test-fitting the sirloin sub-primal into my chamber sealer. It was a near thing, and would only fit cross-wise. But I’m glad it did, because my Sinbo didn’t arrive for several more days!

Here we go:

And just to show that we can do text afterward, and a second image:

This is the sub-primal lined up to go into the (brisket, extra-large) bag, sideways:

That’s all for now!

[Scott Mark]

Oooh! Looks _good_ – and clicking on the image in the article brings up the full-sze!

OK- here’s the image of the roast after final seal in the chamber sealer. The sinbo is visible in the picture, but I only used it for the “corner” or “angle” seals, and I used the chamber sealer for the final seal. I love the chamber sealer.

[Scott Mark]

I notice that photobucket seems to be resizing my photos. The source photos are 3648×2736, but the photobucket images are 1024×768.

And that’s probably OK.

Here’s the drybag after the Sinbo seals, just before going into the chamber sealer:

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