Posting Images and links -- FAQs

Posting images from 500px site

It seems that posting images from the 500px site is perfectly possible although getting the link to the image seems a bit convoluted. Please note however that I'm writing from the "mere webber" perspective - not the owner of 500px account. I mean: maybe there is some better method if somebody is logged in to the site ...

Observation

It seems that 500px uses following scheme to construct URLs to photos:

http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/4.jpg

The green part is some numeric user id, the red part is some numeric photo id, while the yellow part denotes photo size/shape. The latter can be 1.jpg for small square crop of the image, 2.jpg for bigger square crop, 3.jpg for even bigger square crop, and finally 4.jpg for the original photo.

Getting the link

The above sounds complicated but hopefully it is relatively easy to get the URL of the photo: being on the page which shows the photo you should see the "Embed" button somewhere on the right side. Clicking this button will pop-up a box with a HTML code snippet. Do not get frightened with that - you do not need to know HTML to use it - just copy that snippet and paste it in a text editor (e.g. Windows Notepad, but if you like to use MS Word or whatever - it should work as well). The HTML code snippet will look like this:

<table cellpadding="2"><tr><td style="border-bottom: 0px solid #fff;"><a href="http://500px.com/photo/23797687"><img src="http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/3.jpg" width="280" height="280" alt="Untitled by Matt Boggs (MattBoggs)) on 500px.com" style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;"> </a><br/><font style="font-size: 120%;"><a href="http://500px.com/photo/23797687">Untitled</a> by <a href="http://500px.com/MattBoggs">Matt Boggs</a></font></td></tr></table>

Complicated? No worries - you are interested only in the fragment I marked in red - this is the link to the photo of your choice. Just select it, copy, and paste between [IMG][/IMG] tags in Dyxum text box. Well, you also need to put the right "size/shape" part, which means that you have to change "3.jpg" into "4.jpg" - otherwise you will get square crop instead of the original photo.

Results

Using the above code snippet, which I'm using in here with permission of Mattboggs10 (thanks!), who is the author of the photo below, we can see the results:

Original:

[IMG]http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/4.jpg[/IMG]




Big square crop:

[IMG]http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/3.jpg[/IMG]




Smaller square crop:

[IMG]http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/2.jpg[/IMG]




Small square crop:

[IMG]http://pcdn.500px.net/23797687/6c3193d81ca226746e62a9ecb5d954ffc7f8799c/1.jpg[/IMG]




That's all - hopefully this will help somebody to post photos from 50px.

Thanks again to Mattboggs10 for permission to use his photos in this short intro.


Edited by MiPr - 24 January 2013 at 20:31

If on your first try it does not work, try it again with the _ [underscore] before DSCXXXX removed.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/361shhk4nu0wng4/_DSC4121.jpg preserves the Exif.

hi Brettania
I was using this method up to last weekend but tried today & the right click on the photo doesn't bring up the "Copy image location" option.
I've e-mailed Flickr but not heard anything yet.
Any thoughts ??
Many thanks
RT

Richard, this is my method, and it works for me.

darosa wrote: Richard, this is my method, and it works for me.

Doesn't for me, because I can't see any share links.

What works for me in Flickr is to select the right size picture as explained, then right click on it and get properties. Copy the link, eg,

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/12475855544_ec0c7dc3c5_c.jpg

then paste it into the 'insert image' box with the tree on it in Dyxum. Close that and inspect the link in text. Check the '.jpg' is there, delete the 's' from 'https', and if necessary change the picture size by changing the last letter before the .jpeg.

'_s' gives 75 x 75 (small square)
'_t' gives 100 x 64 (thumbnail)
'_q' gives 150 x 150 (square)
'_m' gives 240 x 154
'_n' gives 320 x 206
'' (nothing) gives 500 x 322
'_z' gives 640 x 412
'_c' gives 800 x 515 (medium)
'_b' gives 1024 x 659 (large)
'_h' gives 1600 x 1030 (I assume this is too big to use here)

So you can change the size displayed easily after previewing your post. I won't even try to list all the things that can go wrong with linking - I think I've tried most of them! (Doh!)

But taking the text link above and doing what I said (and altering the '_c' to '_n') should give:



At least this *seems* to work for me, today. I won't guarantee it works for anyone else today, or next week

How do I insert an image directly into my Post? Not a link