[MAGE AND VIDEO STORAGE CONSIDERATIONS]
One of the advantages of using G+ and Facebook has been that I can upload directly images and videos from my own PC, and not worry about separate storage for either. Otherwise, showing an already online image or video in a post requires dumping a URL to an existing image or video. In G+ you use the same button that you'd use to link to an online web page and Facebook has its own buttons for that. In a comment you just type the URL and wait until a preview appears underneath your text.
So that's convenient, more so on G+ because most times you can scroll thru to an appropriate preview image to use in the post. Better than Facebook where sometimes you get stuck blank shim or really inappropriate image for an advert or link to another article. For me, that convenience got a lot less when Photos* (or whatever it's called) got split from G+. Before that you could post a string of images and add descriptions for each, and people could comment underneath each of the descriptions. After that, no. Unless you uploaded extra images in comments to the original image you couldn't put descriptions on those images. Sharing an album from the Photos was not a substitute, because that just created a thumbnail link to that album on that app. Very angry over that at the time. So anyway, moving to another platform means thinking about how storage of images and videos in posts is to managed.
I've noticed on some platforms You can post direct links, but the images are cropped in a feed unless you click on the post to read it fully. This is also done for long text posts as well, just as it is in in G+. But this seems a bit simplistic and backward for 2018. Back in 2010 on Live Journal I could embed images and videos with ease, and crop and scale them. Not only that, I could have multiple images in the one post, like a magazine article with image followed by text followed by image, et cetera. It just seems very simplified now.
When I was using Live Journal, I'd load the originals to either Flickr/Photobucket or Youtube, and embed away. Facebook and G+ made me lazy with uploading direct. So what have you found out about how the platforms you've looked at allow for storage of uploaded media? What's your strategy?
One of the advantages of using G+ and Facebook has been that I can upload directly images and videos from my own PC, and not worry about separate storage for either. Otherwise, showing an already online image or video in a post requires dumping a URL to an existing image or video. In G+ you use the same button that you'd use to link to an online web page and Facebook has its own buttons for that. In a comment you just type the URL and wait until a preview appears underneath your text.
So that's convenient, more so on G+ because most times you can scroll thru to an appropriate preview image to use in the post. Better than Facebook where sometimes you get stuck blank shim or really inappropriate image for an advert or link to another article. For me, that convenience got a lot less when Photos* (or whatever it's called) got split from G+. Before that you could post a string of images and add descriptions for each, and people could comment underneath each of the descriptions. After that, no. Unless you uploaded extra images in comments to the original image you couldn't put descriptions on those images. Sharing an album from the Photos was not a substitute, because that just created a thumbnail link to that album on that app. Very angry over that at the time. So anyway, moving to another platform means thinking about how storage of images and videos in posts is to managed.
I've noticed on some platforms You can post direct links, but the images are cropped in a feed unless you click on the post to read it fully. This is also done for long text posts as well, just as it is in in G+. But this seems a bit simplistic and backward for 2018. Back in 2010 on Live Journal I could embed images and videos with ease, and crop and scale them. Not only that, I could have multiple images in the one post, like a magazine article with image followed by text followed by image, et cetera. It just seems very simplified now.
When I was using Live Journal, I'd load the originals to either Flickr/Photobucket or Youtube, and embed away. Facebook and G+ made me lazy with uploading direct. So what have you found out about how the platforms you've looked at allow for storage of uploaded media? What's your strategy?
How do you upload photos to G+. I have to upload them to google.com - Google Photos - All your photos organized and easy to find first before I can link them to G+.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I just upload from PC. The things you take for granted...
ReplyDeleteFacebook cropped a tall photo on me recently, which was quite a shame since the punchline of it, so to speak, was at the bottom, which you only saw if you clicked on it, and you had no reason to click on it since it otherwise just looked like a boring picture...
+Ninja On Rye Yes, I noticed a while ago that the largest image that Facebook presents uncropped is a different ration to what G+ shows. That's important for memes for just the reason you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThe ratio (Width:Height) is 1:1.8 for G+, but for Facebook it's 1:2.2. Any image with a higher ratio than that gets cropped at the bottom. When I make a meme I use a different template for each, but it's just safer to use the G+ ratio.
Shawn H Corey On the Desktop version you just use the button at the bottom right of a post comment, like:
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