Posted by Jason Denham on August 23, 2010 at 12:57 AM
Hello all,
It has been some time since I posted/linked a photo here to share from Flickr. It seems they have re-vamped how I get links to share and I can't get the new way to work. Any tips out there?
Posted by Rylan Schoen on August 23, 2010 at 1:17 AM
I just ran into that exact issue. Had to spend about 10 minutes to figure it out.
It no longer gives you the option to grab the direct link. Plus the new menu made it all very confusing. What I ended up doing was finding the "large" image, Or whatever size that fits the 720px rule, and right click it. If you have firefox click "view image." If you have another browser I'm sure there is something similar. Once you have your image as the only thing in the browser window Copy the link in the URL bar. This is your direct link to the image.
I assume Flickr is upset because people are using their site for external hosting so their bandwidth is getting used up without any return to flickr. Or something to that effect.
Posted by Jason Denham on August 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM
Thanks Ryan--that helped. I right clicked on it, selected 'properties' (IE8), and found a the image URL that NP.net seemed to accept. Thanks again.
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2 repliesIt has been some time since I posted/linked a photo here to share from Flickr. It seems they have re-vamped how I get links to share and I can't get the new way to work. Any tips out there?
Thanks!
Jason Denham
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasondenham/
It no longer gives you the option to grab the direct link. Plus the new menu made it all very confusing. What I ended up doing was finding the "large" image, Or whatever size that fits the 720px rule, and right click it. If you have firefox click "view image." If you have another browser I'm sure there is something similar. Once you have your image as the only thing in the browser window Copy the link in the URL bar. This is your direct link to the image.
I assume Flickr is upset because people are using their site for external hosting so their bandwidth is getting used up without any return to flickr. Or something to that effect.
Jason Denham
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasondenham/