changes that might effect flickr image codes?

[mixedmedia]

Since last night I have not been able to get the flickr image codes I normally use to work here at TFP. I brought the issue up in the flickr help forum, supplied a code to someone who offered to help and he was able to use the code properly on another forum with no problem.

has there been a change made in the last 24 hours or so that might be causing this problem?

thanks.

[Tully Mars]

I had trouble sometime back too. Amonkie was here and she solved it asap. If she doesn't pop in here you might PM her.

[jewels]

All of mine have been showing as copyrighted lately, so I do think they've defaulted everything that way a couple of months ago or so. Nothing I see new in the very recent past, though.

If you right click and choose "View Image Info" and choose "Location", is it listed as a *.jpg? If so, you should be able to copy that link code and post it here. Hope that helps.

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I just went back and for some reason was unable to pull location as the copyright info came up. If this happens, just click on large and right-click from the larger version to get the location. TFP will let you resize it when you're posting it. I think.

[mixedmedia]

thank you, jewels. it seems to be allowing me to post that way.

[Cynthetiq]

curious, do any of your old ones work without issue?

[mixedmedia]

you mean photos that were posted previously? they seem to be fine.

when I post a photo using Flickr's BBCode (which is what I've been using lately) I get two blank Flickr video boxes instead of the image. but i seem to be able to bypass the problem by using the photo location address...just takes more time.

[Jetée]

I don't know exactly when flickr installed the automatically-generated codes for BB, blogs, and whatever else; I'm guessing since their last major update (Jan. of last year) but ever since someone else suggested it here in support, (it might have been fiatguy, 10% chance?) I go the route of simplicity for attribution.

[flickr image page url]
[image address, rehosted or sought to use with permission from original flickr fotog]
[/flickr image page url]
-- {additional info, which can include, but is not limited to: image title, author's name, location, date shot, situation, etc.}

- - -
or you can see how I go about my routine below...

i.e.

Originally Posted by Jetée

I don't really want to impose my newfound and astonishingly-accurate method of accrediting authors to the their works, but really simplest way to explain it is by my embracement of two key web applications: tumblr and TinEye. On the ohter hand, if I see an image without any description whatsoever, I get kind of pissed (better fit word: "fueled") and try to see if I can find the origins of the image, within 2 minutes is a bonus.

I've known about both websites for more than a year now, perhaps verging on two, but only in the past six months have I joined the two forces together to find the source and creative intrigue that inspired the creation that I am now beholding. Not enough people state their sources, anywhere really, but of the hundreds of blogs I've come to uncover over the past year, and along with some of the people that I follow on tumblr, flickr, 2photo, deviantart, and dozens of other locales, I can at least rummage around myself and see if I can put the right name to the right picture. It's my goal; and it does help me uncover other great astounding works by the same author, and/or their peers.


If you see how I've adopted the "bracket system", that states where I found the source;

for example:

you say you found this image here, but couldn't find the author. I'd post the image...and just bracket the source



[MCO.]

But if I did happen to find the creator, I'd state right under the image, post its "title", and give a link to the author's webpage, if he/she has one, along with their name.

Originally Posted by Jetée

informative example:

now, I'll move on to giving the picture its due information... if you'd like to follow along, you'll notice here that I have input the image into TinEye, and wouldn't you know it, only 1 source popped up. The key though, is that one source is the most relevant one (not to mention the originating one)... I've gotten good enough now to recognize which sources will aid me in my search for "the one true name", and which ones are just wastes of my time. Still, it's really just a hit-or-miss type of shooting gallery.

Onwards... to properly displaying this image in my newfound method of giving my audience all they could possibly want in terms of context:


Abby Goes For the Pizza!!! by gajbatton


[flickrblog.]

and how I formatted the post
(really unnecessary to follow my example, but if it interests you)   click to show 

PHP Code:

[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gajbatton/2457573488/"][IMG]http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3497/20961460.jpg[/IMG]
Abby Goes For the Pizza!!![/URL] by [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gajbatton/"]gajbatton[/URL]


[[SIZE="1"][URL="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/04/14/cats-and%20-pizza/"]flickrblog.[/URL][/SIZE]]