I never learned how to publish my own pictures to the web (Should I be embarrassed?)

@mike444Jun 18.2004

Hi,

Is “Canon Image Scan” old? I just scanned a test image w/ it and where ever I try to upload it I have problems. It has a .tif extension but I downloaded an image converter (not sure if it’s working).

The image is 8.something mb but I found a free image host– cycz.us— that gives up to 15mb free space. Still won’t accept the picture, though. Can anyone help? Thanks.

btw- To illustrate the extent of my difficulties, I can’t even get the image to show up on a primative webpage I created in notepad.

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@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[SIZE=1]And, yes, I saw the "Uploading an image" thread but I couldn't gleen anything useful to my particular problem from it. I tried, though. [/SIZE]

@DaveSWJun 18.2004 — #I think that thread was something different - about getting users of your website to upload their own pictures.

Anyway, how are you supposed to upload images to your host? Does FTP sound familiar, or is it some sort of web form?

Also can we see the code for your primitive web page (maybe just your image code).

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by DaveSW [/i]

[B]

Anyway, how are you supposed to upload images to your host? Does FTP sound familiar, or is it some sort of web form?

A[/B][/QUOTE]

Well, I do not know much about what ftp does so....The host I tried--- nycz.us--- said they accept .tif's but mine didn't work... ?

I created an html page in notebook -- just so I could see if the picture shows up...it doesn't...here's the code:

<html><body><IMG SRC="C:/MyDocuments/IMAGE8.tif">

</body></html>

With code as simple as that, I don't know what it could be ....?

@DaveSWJun 18.2004 — #Well there seems to be some fundamental problems in the way you're approaching it...

Do you have Yahoo Messenger? Maybe it would be easier to talk you through...

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #Okay, I'm still not having any luck with this. My Yahoo messenger ID is trat444

@ray326Jun 18.2004 — #<html><body><IMG SRC="C:/MyDocuments/IMAGE8.tif">[/QUOTE]
<html><body><IMG SRC="file:///C|My%20Documents/IMAGE8.tif">

</body></html>

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by ray326 [/i]

[B]<html><body><IMG SRC="file:///C|My%20Documents/IMAGE8.tif">

</body></html> [/B][/QUOTE]

Gonna try it right now. Let you know if it worked...

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by ray326 [/i]

[B]<html><body><IMG SRC="file:///C|My%20Documents/IMAGE8.tif">

</body></html> [/B][/QUOTE]

Didn't work.

@the_treeJun 18.2004 — #Are you sure your getting the file reference right? That is an absolute file refrence that would only make sense to a file on your computer not one on the net.

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by ray326 [/i]

[B]<html><body><IMG SRC="file:///C|My%20Documents/IMAGE8.tif">

</body></html> [/B][/QUOTE]

Oh wait, should have I renamed the file "file:///C|My%20Documents/IMAGE8.tif"?

Don't answer. I'll try that too. be back in a flash!

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by the tree [/i]

[B]Are you sure your getting the file reference right? That is an absolute file refrence that would only make sense to a file on your computer not one on the net. [/B][/QUOTE]

Yes, I'm referencing the file on my computer. Nothing's working.

@the_treeJun 18.2004 — #NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

dont ever refernce to a file on your computer, refernce to the uploaded version. If it's in the same folder as your html page then <img src="/picture.jpg"> and if it's one folder up then <img src="/folder/picture.jpg">

@mike444authorJun 18.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by the tree [/i]

[B]NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

dont ever refernce to a file on your computer, refernce to the uploaded version.[/B][/QUOTE]

It's not uploaded yet. Just clarifying.

[B]If it's in the same folder as your html page then <img src="/picture.jpg"> and if it's one folder up then <img src="/folder/picture.jpg"> [/B][/QUOTE]

The image and the webpage are both in "MY Documents". Does that make it the same folder?

@NeczyJun 18.2004 — #alright heres what you want to do.

Make a new folder on your desktop and then move the image into it. then, move the notepad file into it.

Then, use the html:

<i>
 </i>&lt;html&gt;
 &lt;body&gt;
 &lt;img src="imagename.tif"&gt;
 &lt;/body&gt;
 &lt;/html&gt;

That should work.

@Aronya1Jun 18.2004 — #A couple of things:

If you're going to use the file with the .tif extension, you may have to wait a [b]long time[/b] - maybe minutes - for the browser to display it. 8MB is a huge image. So, just maybe you have a patience situation to deal with at this point.

Next, unless you have a specifc need to use a .tif file, you should convert it to some other format. Jpg would be the standard. NO ONE is going to wait for an 8 meg image to load on the Internet. Go to [URL=http://www.irfanview.com]Irfanview[/URL] and download it. It is free and easy to use. It will convert your image to a .jpg in seconds, and your problems will likely be over.

@David_HarrisonJun 19.2004 — #When you saved the image was there a dropdown box underneath that said, "Save as type:"? If there was then try opening your image up again and saving it as a .jpg or a .png file, jpg's are good for large images, png's are good for smaller ones, jpg's give a reduction in quality though.

It could be that your browser (IE?) doesn't support .tif images as I suspect may be the case.