Pictures Not Viewable Because of Photobucket.

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Pictures Not Viewable Because of Photobucket.

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After a lot of work by George (''Kerbside'') so many of his images here...George's 1-75 regular wheels casting show are not viewable because of the out of focus treatment and the photobucket banner spread across the image as a copyright prevention but really because of the end of FREE usage of photobucket.

There are initially two ways round this problem:
1, George will have to go through all his posts and re-post the images using an alternative picture host to bring back the sharp images.
2, Anyone wanting to view an out of focus image just needs to do a right click on the image and choose the View image option. This will open a new window displaying George's image as originally intended in nice sharp focus.

Number 2 above works on Windows operating systems up to Windows 8. Windows 10 does not give you the same right click options so what you have to do is type Snipping Tool into Cortana and wait for the app to appear in Cortana's search window. Click on this and this will bring up the search results for the Snipping Tool as shown below.
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The green tick will not show I have just added it to show you what the snipping tool app results looks like. You will do a right click on this and the following options will appear as shown below.
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If you click on the Pin to taskbar a snipping tool icon will be added to your taskbar for quick access to the snipping tool.

If you click on the Pin to Start, it will do the same but the snipping tool icon will be in your start menu.

I prefer to have on in my Taskbar.

Wherever you have it, click on the icon and the Snipping Tool window will open on your desk top as shown below.
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During viewing of any forum images you click on your snipping tool icon and the above window will appear. Just then click on the New icon highlighted by my green oval and the whole screen will go grey but allowing you to see the image enough for you to select what area of the screen (or a forum image) you want to 'Snip'. It is a form of Screen Grab but with more control. Use the mouse or touch pad with the left click button held down to move your cursor to select the desired image. When you let go of the buttons it will automatically bring up the save window where you decide where you want the new image to be saved to and what title to give this new image.

Do it a few times and you will be using the snipping tool every day to save valuable pictures from forums and websites etc.

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Re: Pictures Not Viewable Because of Photobucket.

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Very useful on sites that block downloads........
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Post by fixer »

Changing from free to payed is like holding your pictures to ransom and remember they're not the hosts pictures
That's why I don't use them
I understand they can use a lot of space but at least I can post them where I like and not have a 3rd party block them later
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For the sake of those who are dealing with this nightmare, I hope it's resolved satisfactorily. I've never had a Photobucket account, and I'm glad of it. Much easier to upload an attachment directly to the board.
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Squid wrote:Much easier to upload an attachment directly to the board.
Definitely!
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If wanted I have the time to do the whole lot again thank you.

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For Mac users, you can right click and select "Open Link in New Tab" and a tab will appear to view or "Open Link in New Window" and new window appears.
Once there you can scroll through or go to main menu and view models.
Just a note if you have an Ad Blocker you will asked to deactivate (I keep 1 browser without ad blocker to get round this).
If this work for most of us there should be no need for George to redo photos (and thank you for time you and others have spent).
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Re: Pictures Not Viewable Because of Photobucket.

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Thanks Roger for describing the Mac way of seeing the images from behind photobucket's annoying defacement process.

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