Photo uploading to Blogger
First of all, I'm and old fart and your Customer Support Community page is really confusing. Put topic search somewhere on top at least...somewhere where it stands out.
OK...now for my reason for doing this "Share an idea" thing, which I hope is the proper way to submit an idea.
Photography is a major part of my life currently. And when I write something for my Blogger accounts, I'll often upload a photo from my computer to be included in the blog post. I prefer to have my photos with the blog itself, not uploaded to another site and linked to from the post. All too often, the link breaks for whatever reason and the photo isn't seen by the person visiting my blog. So having it included with the post is, for me, the way to go.
However, when I wrote my first Blogger post in Flock, I looked for a way to include a photo in the writing. When I dragged a photo to insert in the post, Flock attempted to upload the photo to Photobucket, or Facebook, or something...I don't remember right now. That is not what I wanted to do. I wanted to insert the photo within the body of type and NOT have to upload it to another site, and link it in post.
I may have missed the way to do that, but I believe I looked throughout out the blog editor for a way to do it...and couldn't find it.
So, I then come here to the "Share an idea" section and see in the lower left corner, an "Add an image" action. It appears to allow for local hosted images to be uploaded for this "idea." Is there a way that same function can be added to the Blog editor, thereby giving me and probably a lot of other Flock users the ability to manage their blogs better before publishing?
Thanks.
L. Sobkoviak, aka Ashrunner on the net, Bear to friends
A very new Flock user, and starting to enjoy it.
OK...now for my reason for doing this "Share an idea" thing, which I hope is the proper way to submit an idea.
Photography is a major part of my life currently. And when I write something for my Blogger accounts, I'll often upload a photo from my computer to be included in the blog post. I prefer to have my photos with the blog itself, not uploaded to another site and linked to from the post. All too often, the link breaks for whatever reason and the photo isn't seen by the person visiting my blog. So having it included with the post is, for me, the way to go.
However, when I wrote my first Blogger post in Flock, I looked for a way to include a photo in the writing. When I dragged a photo to insert in the post, Flock attempted to upload the photo to Photobucket, or Facebook, or something...I don't remember right now. That is not what I wanted to do. I wanted to insert the photo within the body of type and NOT have to upload it to another site, and link it in post.
I may have missed the way to do that, but I believe I looked throughout out the blog editor for a way to do it...and couldn't find it.
So, I then come here to the "Share an idea" section and see in the lower left corner, an "Add an image" action. It appears to allow for local hosted images to be uploaded for this "idea." Is there a way that same function can be added to the Blog editor, thereby giving me and probably a lot of other Flock users the ability to manage their blogs better before publishing?
Thanks.
L. Sobkoviak, aka Ashrunner on the net, Bear to friends
A very new Flock user, and starting to enjoy it.
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Inappropriate?When you create a new blog post and click the image icon, a new window appears which allows you to upload a photo from your computer or link to an existing photo URL. Photos uploaded from your computer then have a blogspot.com URL.
Just to make sure I understand your request, you want the Flock blog editor to follow similar logic, uploading to blogspot.com rather than to http://picasaweb.google.com, flickr.com, or photobucket.com?
(I should note that I tested this by creating a new post via the blogspot.com online editor and uploaded a photo. The photo URL is via blogspot.com but the photo also appears in my picasa web albums. The photo is linked into the blog post automatically.)
The way the Flock editor works right now is that you open the blog editor and drag a photo in. Flock will allow you to upload the photo to a supporting service and will automatically link to the photo in the blog post (at this moment Flock is having problems with Flickr, but I uploaded to Photobucket successfully). Does this appear to be happening for you when you create the blog post? You should not have to copy and paste the image URL, it should already be filled in for you. Does the image appear in the photo before you upload it?
The image uploading on this GetSatisfaction support page works in a similar way -- you upload an image and the software behind-the-scenes links to the image for you. This should be happening with Flock already. -
Inappropriate?Actually, when I click on the Image Icon, I get a screen which asks for strictly an URL, and does not contain any navigation dialog to upload an image from my computer. What I see looks like this:

I might be clicking on the wrong Icon. In any case, I don't have the capability to upload images from my computer to Blogger. -
Hi,
Just FYI, any pictures uploaded to Blogger are actually and automatically uploaded to a special album in Picasa:
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/...
If you do not wish to upload your pictures to any photo hosting sites (such as Flickr, Facebook, etc), you could simply upload them to Picasa...
As for the format of GetSatisfaction, we do not own it nor have control over its format.
Thanks,
Sophie -
If you go onto the Blogger.com web page, rather than using Flock's built-in Blog Editor, you can create a new blog post and click the image icon there to upload. Sorry that I wasn't clear on that. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the information, Sophie. I figured out that GetSatisfaction wasn't part of Flock shortly after I posted the initial message. I need to look closer at things...hehehe.
As for my original request, I didn't know Blogger hosted the images there. I guess the "blogspot" URL is in reality, Picasa...which I have never really liked. But it is a transparent operation.
I think what happened is I didn't make myself clear in my initial post. I prefer the simplest of operations. When I post to one of my blogs, I upload my photos, and then have to rearrange them through a copy and paste process, which gets old when several or more photos are included in the post.
What I was looking for, and asking about, is simplification of the process. I would like it to be a one stop process, if possible. I type my words until I get to the spot I want my image inserted, click on the editor action which allows me to place an image in that spot, navigate to its storage area, select it, click OK and continue with my typing.
Forcing an old fart like me to upload the image to a storage area, copy the URL, place the URL within my post where I want the image to show, forces me into a lot of extra actions which is where Murphy takes over. And if a problem arises in those actions due to my own stupidity, I get frustrated trying to figure it out.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who would like to see a "One stop blogging" capability for locally hosted images.
Thanks
Lauren Sobkoviak -
The Flock Blog Editor supports dragging pictures from your computer into the blog post. As you suggested, you can write what you want, and when you want to insert a picture, drag the picture from your desktop or from a folder into the Blog Editor, and Flock will prompt you to upload it. When the upload completes, Flock will insert the image automatically in your post.
It's a bit of an unadvertised feature, but it sounds like it should meet your needs! -
Inappropriate?Thanks Chris...That's is what I was looking for. But I have another question regarding it. When I drop the image in the editor, it asks which area I want to upload the photo to. I would like to add Blogger to that list, since that is where I want the image to be. I understand Blogger uses Picasa to power its image uploading, but for a number of reason I don't want to get into, I'd rather not open a Picasa account for that process. From information I got in a reply above, when the image is uploaded to Blogger, it goes to Picasa with special Blogger tagging. If the image is removed from the blog, it is also removed from Picasa. Sweet and simple...just the way I like things.
How can I change to upload drop down box to include Blogger as the spot to upload the image? -
Unfortunately Flock at this time does not support uploading images to Blogger directly, as you're requesting. I don't think that Blogger supports this with their programming code for applications like Flock.
Other people have asked about this before: http://groups.google.com/group/blogge...
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