Thanks to Nudist46Couple43! An alternative way to post photos to the group

Thanks for setting up this group, your are a great couple who lead by example - plenty of profile photos, just a shame that free members like me only get to see a tiny proportion of them.
I think it worthwhile letting people know that there is an alternative method of posting photos to the group, which avoids the intrusive TN logo which is automatically added to all photos uploaded either to profiles or to groups. Nudist46Couple43 rightly draw attention to the importance of respecting copyright in photos, a right which TN clearly seem to be usurping by impression their logo on other people's copyright material.
In the alternative method the photos are uploaded to a group discussion topic. Any group member can create a topic, for example "XYZ's Photo Thread" and then upload their own photos and add a description or information to make them more interesting to group members. To do the upload you only need to click the "insertimage" button in the discussion edit bar just below the title and paste or type in the URL of the photo you want to show.
It will now be clear that the image must be stored on the web somewhere or other. It is possible to use photos already in your TN profile, but that is best avoided because they will always have the intrusive TN logo plastered all over the lower edge. A much better option is use photos stored on a hosting site - the ones I show below are from Flickr, but there are many other options available.
Getting the URL to post varies from one browser to another, but you will usually find that a right click on the photo will bring up an option to show its URL, possibly through an additional dialogue called something like "View Image Info". Highlight and copy the URL, which should end in ".jpg" and then simple paste that into the discussion page insert image dialogue.

In Praise of the Zoom Lens - A composite of me on a beach in France

Evening Sun with Windsurfer - Another Beach in France

Pamela First Time at 18 - A photographer adjusts the lights in the club studio - my first nude session posing for fellow members of the photo club

I hope we can see many more photos from group members!
Pamela

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RE: Thanks to Nudist46Couple43! An alternative way to post photos to the group

If I try to paste a second pic into my posting this is what happens:. . ...Here's my first photo; ...And here's the second. When I click on edit (the small yellow pencil icon above) to go back in and add the second photo the first one (above) is gone when I click on the small ''Reply'' box.It does seem to be hit and miss, but I have got it to work with multiple images. What I can never do is go back in to edit the post - all images then disappear!
Let's try two recently approved profile pics:



Seems to work, so let's try a frontal one:

OK So far.......
Pamela

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Another "Trick" in Group Discussion Posts

I worked this one out after looking carefully at the way TN have crippled the workings of the Discussion sections on the site - you will see for example see that the Insert Link button does nothing, in addition to the way the "Edit" function is usually destructive to the original post.
In this case I will describe a way to save your discussion post to a text file which you can store on your computer and re-upload if an edit goes wrong.
1) Create your post and check carefully for errors to reduce the need for subsequent editing - if you have photos embedded, they are likely to disappear if you edit the post subsequently.
2) Press the Reply button
3) Go back into the Discussion thread you have posted to, find your post and click on the "Quote" button as if you were replying with a quote.
4) You will see a grey section which contains the coded message you are quoting. Highlight all of the quoted message and copy it to the clipboard.
5) Open windows Notepad or other plain text editor (not a word processing program, they usually do not handle plain text). Paste the clipboard contents into a blank document. The document may exceed the screen width but just ignore that, do not insert line breaks.
6) Leave the document exactly as it is, except for one thing - delete the blank spaces right at the beginning of the document. There are usually two of them.
7) Highlight the entire document and copy to the clipboard.
8) Open your discussion page, press the reply button on any post (the circular arrow) and simply paste the clipboard contents into the dialogue box. Hit the reply button at the bottom, and there is your original post intact (even with photos!)
I will demonstrate by putting in one of my recently approved profile pics:


Pamela

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My previous post reposted!

I worked this one out after looking carefully at the way TN have crippled the workings of the Discussion sections on the site - you will see for example see that the Insert Link button does nothing, in addition to the way the "Edit" function is usually destructive to the original post.
In this case I will describe a way to save your discussion post to a text file which you can store on your computer and re-upload if an edit goes wrong.
1) Create your post and check carefully for errors to reduce the need for subsequent editing - if you have photos embedded, they are likely to disappear if you edit the post subsequently.
2) Press the Reply button
3) Go back into the Discussion thread you have posted to, find your post and click on the "Quote" button as if you were replying with a quote.
4) You will see a grey section which contains the coded message you are quoting. Highlight all of the quoted message and copy it to the clipboard.
5) Open windows Notepad or other plain text editor (not a word processing program, they usually do not handle plain text). Paste the clipboard contents into a blank document. The document may exceed the screen width but just ignore that, do not insert line breaks.
6) Leave the document exactly as it is, except for one thing - delete the blank spaces right at the beginning of the document. There are usually two of them.
7) Highlight the entire document and copy to the clipboard.
8) Open your discussion page, press the reply button on any post (the circular arrow) and simply paste the clipboard contents into the dialogue box. Hit the reply button at the bottom, and there is your original post intact (even with photos!)
I will demonstrate by putting in one of my recently approved profile pics:


Pamela

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RE: Thanks to Nudist46Couple43! An alternative way to post photos to the group

Not sure why but I see a lot of posts referring to pictures but nopictures in the posts. Do they go away after a while?Were I in the UK, I'd be asking what your rates for modeling were!I get the same when I browse TN with Firefox, and variants of it, with various security add-ons. Using browsers with no security extensions enabled works, that includes Firefox. Its not how I like to surf the net, its easy to replace a pixel in a .jpg/.jpeg file with some malware related data, but most social networks, to me TN is a nudist version, don't always have security as their main priority.

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