"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

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But how do you find the picture if you want to post it again later? Or do you upload it every time?

Yes, I just upload a photo to Imgur from my compulsively organized photo files whenever I want to post it.

For example, today I wanted to post my Lambsfoot of the Week in the "Totin' Today" thread. The lambsfoot in question was my 2019 Guardians Lambsfoot that I call Valley Jack (or VJ in the privacy of my own laptop). The "path" I follow on my MacBook to find an appropriate photo is
Pictures > knives > British > a.wright&son > 2019 guardians ironwood lambsfoot > VJ.4.20 because I decided to use photos of VJ taken in April of 2020 (having COVID flashbacks ). There happened to be 3 photos in that "lowest level" subfolder (and I'll bet it usually takes me about 5 seconds on average to get to the subfolder I want), and I chose a mark side and a pile side photo to upload simultaneously to Imgur. I then had to copy the BBCode of each photo individually to paste into my BF post.

I find it much easier to keep my photos organized on my laptop than trying to keep things "tidy" on Imgur. Hierarchical file structure is the air that I breathe!

- GT

 

[r8shell]

Yes, I just upload a photo to Imgur from my compulsively organized photo files whenever I want to post it.

For example, today I wanted to post my Lambsfoot of the Week in the "Totin' Today" thread. The lambsfoot in question was my 2019 Guardians Lambsfoot that I call Valley Jack (or VJ in the privacy of my own laptop). The "path" I follow on my MacBook to find an appropriate photo is
Pictures > knives > British > a.wright&son > 2019 guardians ironwood lambsfoot > VJ.4.20 because I decided to use photos of VJ taken in April of 2020 (having COVID flashbacks ). There happened to be 3 photos in that "lowest level" subfolder (and I'll bet it usually takes me about 5 seconds on average to get to the subfolder I want), and I chose a mark side and a pile side photo to upload simultaneously to Imgur. I then had to copy the BBCode of each photo individually to paste into my BF post.

I find it much easier to keep my photos organized on my laptop than trying to keep things "tidy" on Imgur. Hierarchical file structure is the air that I breathe!

- GT

You sure are more organized than I am! Want to come over and straighten up my file system?

 

[5K Qs]

You sure are more organized than I am! Want to come over and straighten up my file system?

Maybe I should take you up on that; do you live near an Austin Moonlight Tower?
I recently read a book about the Midnight Assassin serial killer in Austin in 1885 (?) and learned about Austin installing these insanely tall light towers for street lighting. The book couldn't really say much about the "assassin" because virtually no clues were ever found, but the book was quite fascinating in its description of Austin and its society at that time.

- GT

 

[knarfeng]

Way back when, I had an Imgur account, and had a semi-organized repository of my knife photos there. At some point, Imgur changed their "structure" and I couldn't find my photos back. I think I started posting directly to BF after that happened, until the day when we all turned out to be far beyond our limits. I think @Just Tom. taught me how to use Imgur as an "anonymous transfer port" after I became disillusioned with the frequent glitches I encountered when trying to use Postimages in that way.

- GT

To get to your "images" under the new Imgur structure is a multistep process. As I mentioned, Imgur's currently styling itself as a "social media" site, rather than just an image hosting site, per se. But here are the steps I use:
> Log in. (don't forget that just hitting enter does not work, you need to click the sign in button after entering your user name and passord.)
> at the top right corner of the screen, click your user name. That produces a popup.
>On the popup, click "settings". That takes you to a new screen.
>At the top right of that settings screen, mouse over your user name. That produces a popup.
>Click "images".

Notice that I differentiated between "clicking" and "mousing over" in the instructions above. I use a PC when using either BF or Imgur.

That takes you to the old user screen where you can look at all your images and if you have put them into "albums", you can look at just the photos in an individual album.

 

[r8shell]

Maybe I should take you up on that; do you live near an Austin Moonlight Tower?
I recently read a book about the Midnight Assassin serial killer in Austin in 1885 (?) and learned about Austin installing these insanely tall light towers for street lighting. The book couldn't really say much about the "assassin" because virtually no clues were ever found, but the book was quite fascinating in its description of Austin and its society at that time.

- GT

There's a moontower not too far from me. There are still 14 of them out of the original 31. They were erected ten years after the "Servant Girl Annihilator" murders, so it may not have prompted the installation, but with local government bureaucracy, who knows?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_towers_(Austin,_Texas)

To get to your "images" under the new Imgur structure is a multistep process. As I mentioned, Imgur's currently styling itself as a "social media" site, rather than just an image hosting site, per se. But here are the steps I use:
> Log in. (don't forget that just hitting enter does not work, you need to click the sign in button after entering your user name and passord.)
> at the top right corner of the screen, click your user name. That produces a popup.
>On the popup, click "settings". That takes you to a new screen.
>At the top right of that settings screen, mouse over your user name. That produces a popup.
>Click "images".

Notice that I differentiated between "clicking" and "mousing over" in the instructions above. I use a PC when using either BF or Imgur.

That takes you to the old user screen where you can look at all your images and if you have put them into "albums", you can look at just the photos in an individual album.

Thank you! To get to my image albums, I've been logging in to Imgur, and then opening the old site page that I'd bookmarked. (You can't start out on that page first) Now I know another way to get there if I'm using a different browser or something.