TinyPic

[Dave A]

TinyPic still not working for me this morning. Is it working for anyone?

Dave

[Mike Buckley]

Still not working consistently for me. I was able to upload one photo about 12 hours ago but two minutes later that was again impossible and still is.

[bje07]

The same for me Mike, I tried to post picture in my nex thread where I gave a link, but always the same answer from Tiny Pic

[ccphoto]

I still cannot load to it either. I have to use my Flickr acct.

[skitterbug]

I just tried to load to Tinypic as well and still it won't complete the upload. <grrrrrr> I'm glad to see it isn't just me though! Otherwise, I'd really wonder what it was that I was doing incorrectly! LOL

[Geoff F]

Not working for me either; at 7 pm.

For many of my main images, I do link from P base but sometimes I don't want to mess up those galleries with follow up images etc which is where Tinypics makes a useful alternative.

[Werner]

still not working. - this is getting old.

[Dave Humphries]

Agreed,

I also just tried from here and direct at TinyPic's web site, in both cases the Upload failed as "Unable to process image"

The fact Uploading fails from TinyPic's own website suggests it is most definitely their problem and not something relating to background works we're having to do here at CiC.

I hope they fix it soon.

Although, Randy seems to have succeeded last night, between Geoff's and Werner's tests.
.

[John 2]

TinyPic is still on strike for me this morning I'm afraid.

[Craigie]

Still not working for me.

[ccphoto]

let's see - nope..still not working from my end. Upload Failed! Unable to process image.

[Mike Buckley]

We are now just hours away on my end from three full days of TinyPic being down. It would be much more reassuring to learn that the owner of CiC is at least regularly in touch with TinyPic about the issue. Indeed, it's very disconcerting that we haven't heard anything from management.

[Dave Humphries]

We are now just hours away on my end from three full days of TinyPic being down. It would be much more reassuring to learn that the owner of CiC is at least regularly in touch with TinyPic about the issue. Indeed, it's very disconcerting that we haven't heard anything from management.

Mike,

That is unfair in my opinion, I have responded above (if I count as "management"); I tried it myself to confirm not working for me either and how and where, however at least one member has used it successfully within the last 24 hours, as my post states and which I linked to. So much of your post may be factually incorrect.

Sean, the site owner has a lot else on his plate and believe me, since we don't pay TinyPic for service, they are unlikely to care less whether it works for us specifically, given their own site pages also fail to work - I suspect they know there's a problem and they are working on it.

Dave

[NorthernFocus]

In the mean time, anyone who has there own website or uses a hosting service can simply link to images there. That's the only way I've posted on CiC since the day I joined. Honestly I just do it that way because it's easier.

[skitterbug]

Since Tiny Pic isn't working as expected, it brings a couple of questions for me.

First question - What happens if one of these photo web hosting sites does go down permanently? Do the photos that we post here become un-viewable?

Second question - I've moved to Flickr for now so I can post my images and find that there is a learning curve! What's new for me, life is a learning curve. But anyway, I’m puzzled about the size selection in Flickr. Should I choose the Large size (2048x1365) or do I pick something smaller? If smaller, what should I choose.

I always have more questions but I'll stop with those two! I always appreciate the help offered here!

Smiles and Thanks!

[NorthernFocus]

.. in Flickr. Should I choose the Large size (2048x1365) or do I pick something smaller? If smaller, what should I choose.

I take it you don't resize before uploading to flikr? If that's the case then IMO there isn't much point in choosing a size that is larger than most peoples computer screens. For me at least it serves little purpose to display an image that I can only see a portion of on my screen. There are exceptions but in general that's what makes sense to me. Plus I think CiC will resize it to some limit which no doubt is described somewhere here on the site.

You should be aware that if you upload full size images and rely on a hosting service and/or whatever engine drives the light box on CiC to do the resizing for you, the images likely won't appear as sharp as they might otherwise.

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks for the response, Dave. The information you provided is helpful to know.

As for the fairness of my post, consider that I was simply asking that we hear from management that the owner is at least regularly in touch with TinyPic. While we had heard from at least you and Manfred that both of you were also experiencing issues with TinyPic, we had NOT heard from any of the moderators or the owner that there was any communication between CiC and TinyPic. That fact was and remains the thrust of my post. You have now confirmed that to the best of your knowledge there is no such communication and that if it did happen, TinyPic probably "couldn't care less."

As for the factual accuracy of my post, it's my opinion that it is 100% accurate. So, I disagree with your thinking that most of it is inaccurate. I don't consider moderators to be management because my understanding is that they have no financial interest in CiC. If moderators do indeed have a financial interest, my thinking is that that should be openly disclosed on the FAQ. If it is already displayed there, I would appreciate being corrected.

I didn't know that TinyPic is not paid by CiC for the capabilities being provided. Even so, learning that information only provides additional context by managing my expectations, which are now lowered.

TinyPic's capability is one of the three main reasons I decided to participate here and the other two reasons have nothing to do with CiC's platform. The last time I evaluated sites, which was five years ago, all of them that I reviewed provided other methods of inserting photos into a post. I knew of only one other site that had the capability provided by TinyPic. So, this is an important issue for me.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Sandy,

First question - What happens if one of these photo web hosting sites does go down permanently? Do the photos that we post here become un-viewable?

Short answer: Yes
Longer answer: If a TinyPic photo is not viewed by anyone, anywhere. for 90 days, it is apparently removed. That said, I have not noticed this being a problem, but equally, I have not looked for it especially.
Any site can have a technical failure, denial of service attack or similar that causes it to 'go down', usually images are recovered from their back ups, but it must be possible that some might be lost permanently (so we shouldn't rely on it as a back up service). I host mine on PBase and have done for oooh, some 6 years or so. During that time, it did go down for a few days, but eventually all my images were restored.

The issue with some hosting sites is that directly linked images posted here may contain the folder/album structure as part of the url, so that means if you re-organise your own albums, you may accidentally break the link. I see this far more often. PBase is one that doesn't do this, the image url is permanent and I can re-organise my albums without worrying about this.

Second question - I've moved to Flickr for now so I can post my images and find that there is a learning curve! What's new for me, life is a learning curve. But anyway, I’m puzzled about the size selection in Flickr. Should I choose the Large size (2048x1365) or do I pick something smaller? If smaller, what should I choose.

The thing to consider is that apart from special cases, you want the most people to be able to see your image at a 1:1 ratio between the on-line image and the screen LCD pixels. Therefore, since most decent monitors are approx. 1920 x 1080, or 1620 x 1050, so while allowing for browser edges, etc. I post mine with a maximum height of 950 px. Height rules because most monitors will be landscape/horizontal orientation.

So, to answer your question; if portrait/vertical orientation, pick a size that's a bit under 1000px on longest edge, but if landscape/horizontal orientation, then pick a size that is under 1000px on shortest edge.

People using phones or tablets can rotate very easily to view appropriately, but then they're not likely to be able to critically analyse image quality on those devices for a variety of reasons.

HTH, Dave

PS Dan's point about sharpness is also valid.
I always downsize to viewing size and sharpen for that size for optimum viewing.
Also, if you upload full size images to Flickr, it allows anyone to access and download them, so they can rip 'em off and print large without your permission, perhaps even passing the images off as their own.

[Mike Buckley]

I take it you don't resize before uploading to flikr? If that's the case then IMO there isn't much point in choosing a size that is larger than most peoples computer screens...There are exceptions but in general that's what makes sense to me.

When I upload to Zenfolio, I always upload a full-size JPEG. That's partly because I see no difference in the sharpness of the smaller size displayed by default, which is a pleasant surprise that I can't explain. It's also partly because by storing the full-size image file there, I am using the site as a fourth back up of those images. Lastly, it's also because if I ever want to try selling my images there, the full-size file makes it possible to automatically provide prints at the largest practical size; now that the full-size files are stored there, I only need to "flip the switch" that makes selling the images possible.

[skitterbug]

I take it you don't resize before uploading to flikr? If that's the case then IMO there isn't much point in choosing a size that is larger than most peoples computer screens. For me at least it serves little purpose to display an image that I can only see a portion of on my screen. There are exceptions but in general that's what makes sense to me. Plus I think CiC will resize it to some limit which no doubt is described somewhere here on the site.

You should be aware that if you upload full size images and rely on a hosting service and/or whatever engine drives the light box on CiC to do the resizing for you, the images likely won't appear as sharp as they might otherwise.

Golly, bad enough that I am trying to figure out how to take these pictures, but trying to post them to the best of their viewing ability really does get complicated!

So I should resize them before uploading them? I imagine that Light Room provides for this somewhere in the export box..... (I feel a headache coming on...LOL)

If TinyPic ever does come back on with uploading abilities, I ought to resize for them as well or do I still choose the default setting?

Oh enough of my questions. I appreciate your reply to the ones I had! Thank you Dan!