Completed Model Gallery is for Completed models only

[James H]

3 hours ago, Rcboater Bill said:

I know that the Gallery is only for photos, and limits the types of files that can be uploaded.

Is there a way to link to an external site for a video?   I have a short video (30 -60 seconds long) of my model underway.  It is hosted on my  (publicly viewable) Smugmug page.  I tried to add a link in the description of the album, but it won’t let me- I get an error “There is no image at that URL”.

 

The gallery is only for completed models anyway, so a model 'underway', wouldn't be a suitable addition. 

[mtaylor]

There is a problem with external hosting than many folks don't think about.... what happens to their photos/videos went the site gets sold, goes bankrupt, etc.?   We have more than few build logs here where people posted their photos on an external site and then posted a link here.  Those photos are lost to history.

[Rcboater Bill]

5 hours ago, James H said:

The gallery is only for completed models anyway, so a model 'underway', wouldn't be a suitable addition. 

 

Sorry, I’m not following this line of reasoning at all….  how does a video of an RC model underway make it not a “Completed Model”?  (But an action shot  photo of the same model in  the water is OK??)

 

Plus, your response isn’t answering my question at all.  Pretend for a moment I took a video that slowly pans around a completed static model, showing it from all angles.   As I said in my original question, I know the gallery only accepts certain types of files. (Images only).   I understand why - videos can really eat up storage space.   That’s why I asked if there is a way to use an external link….   

 

Edited February 21, 2022 by Rcboater Bill

[VTHokiEE]

16 minutes ago, Rcboater Bill said:

underway

I think there is confusion about underway; I believe you meant in action and moving while an alternate definition might be in the process of being built. I’m curious if you could add the link to the description of the gallery? I think there are text sections that can be used to describe the completed work.

[Rcboater Bill]

4 hours ago, mtaylor said:

There is a problem with external hosting than many folks don't think about.... what happens to their photos/videos went the site gets sold, goes bankrupt, etc.?   We have more than few build logs here where people posted their photos on an external site and then posted a link here.  Those photos are lost to history.

 

That is very true-  I see it in a number of modeling forums- especially older ones.  Fifteen-plus years ago, many forums required you to use an external hosting site for photos.  For example, there are now lots of useless threads out there, ones that now have no photos, thanks to the whole Photobucket debacle.   But if the site didn’t allow/support native hosting of images back then, you can hardly blame people for using 3rd party hosting for images.  (And the gallery still supports using them to this day!)

 

 

 

 

[Rcboater Bill]

12 minutes ago, VTHokiEE said:

I think there is confusion about underway; I believe you meant in action and moving while an alternate definition might be in the process of being built. I’m curious if you could add the link to the description of the gallery? I think there are text sections that can be used to describe the completed work.

 

I think that’s it!    As a former ship driver, “Boats underway”  =  moving through the water.

”Project or build underway” =   Construction has started.

 

I personally have way more projects underway that I do boats! 😀

[Rcboater Bill]

36 minutes ago, VTHokiEE said:

I’m curious if you could add the link to the description of the gallery? I think there are text sections that can be used to describe the completed work.

 

That’s actually what I was trying to do when I got the error.  It seems the software won’t let you include a string that looks like a URL unless it ends in .jpg ( or one of the other supported image formats.).   A string ending in .mp3 is rejected.

 

I was hoping there was a trick that I just wasn’t aware of- hence my original question.

Edited February 21, 2022 by Rcboater Bill

[mtaylor]

39 minutes ago, Rcboater Bill said:

 

That is very true-  I see it in a number of modeling forums- especially older ones.  Fifteen-plus years ago, many forums required you to use an external hosting site for photos.  For example, there are now lots of useless threads out there, ones that now have no photos, thanks to the whole Photobucket debacle.   But if the site didn’t allow/support native hosting of images back then, you can hardly blame people for using 3rd party hosting for images.  (And the gallery still supports using them to this day!)

MSW has always supported uploads directly to the site for images.   Barring opening a log for a completed build, you could post here:  https://modelshipworld.com/forum/4-nautical-general-discussion/

[VTHokiEE]

12 minutes ago, Rcboater Bill said:

It seems the software won’t let you include a string that looks like a URL unless it ends in .jpg

Ahh, I apologize I must not have read closely enough.

[Rob S]

Have we defined what is meant by ‘completed’ or ‘Finished’? I’m not trying to be flippant here, but just wanting to know. My intent is to finish my Mamoli Victory in the below configuration. I do not intend on including masts and rigging. If so, would that be considered as complete?

[ccoyle]

That would be a finished hull model. 'Finished' for the gallery simply means it's not a place for build log photos.

[grsjax]

2 hours ago, Rob S said:

what is meant by ‘completed’ or ‘Finished’?

I would assume that "finished" means that you are done working on the model and ready to display it.

[mtaylor]

That would be the best way.  Delete the three and open a album for that model.  Open a new album for other models as you finish them. 

 

Edit:  Never mind...I see you already did an album.  

[Chuck]

Yes!!

[Chuck]

Enter your Album first.  Then you will see a button to add images to it.  But you must enter your empty album first.

[ccoyle]

NOW HEAR THIS!

 

Friends,

 

MSW requires that your gallery images be posted in named gallery albums. Loose gallery images (i.e., not in albums) are periodically cleaned out (i.e., DELETED). Please note the relevant instruction posted at the top of each gallery:

 

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YOU MUST create an album for each completed model and upload your images in that album.  Do not just upload images to the gallery that are not contained within an album.  These will be deleted.   Thank you.

 

 

That means that @Mirabell61, @Jason Builder, @Richardp6, @RacerToo, @reklein, @Mark Lynch, @East Coast Oyster Sharpie, @Menne Kosian, @Rvandg, @Frank L., @cliff coppen, @Carlo Farina, @Peter6172, @Angler84, @closehaul, @bear, and @cihat karatas: YOU ARE CURRENTLY AT RISK OF HAVING YOUR LOOSE GALLERY IMAGES DELETED. Please move them into albums soon! If you need help with creating an album, contact a moderator.

 

Thank you!

[KurtH]

I am almost finished with my Constitution model, and I will soon want to post Photos in the gallery.  I looked at the above instructions the images of which bear little resemblance to the pages I encounter beginning of the absence of a shadow person avatar.  When I go to the editing of my profile, there is no prompt for gallery.  Can someone set me straight?   Thanks.

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi KH, if you go to the top of the page, there is a Create button beside your user name. Click it and you will get a drop down menu. Choose Gallery and follow the prompts.

[KurtH]

Thanks so much!

[KurtH]

One more question if I may.  Is there a limit to how many photos one can include in a gallery album?  If so, what would that limit be? 

[Chuck]

No but if you add so many of a completed model where many views are almost identical it is like spamming.   Think quality over quantity.   And no under construction photos.

[glbarlow]

I have no interest in watching videos of a model, why?

 

As a photographer, and how I manage my photography website, it is an essential truth that the result of posting a large number of photos to a gallery is a sure fire way for none of those photos to be seen. Less is more, every time. I see this happen with Facebook posts, if I see +72 photos I don’t look at the first one. I see it in some build logs with a large number of photos showing pretty much the same thing, I skim right on by, especially if it’s photos not supported with text (the reverse is also true, text not supported by photos). 
 

My experience for a gallery is 12 images enough to generate interests an over 20 loses the audience. This doesn’t apply to a build log where there is a running narrative and progress photos, the difference between a gallery and a log. 
 

[hoocat]

I have finished my Sultana and wish to send pics for the gallery.  Can I do this from my iphone.  My only computer is for work and does not have photos,

Thank you!

[mtaylor]

Nor having an iPhone, I would think so.  If you can post to a build log or anywhere else on the forum, you should be able to post in the gallery.  Note that I have seen others post to logs, etc. so it should work.

[ccoyle]

Been almost a year now, so time to give this message a bump! Take heed, please!

 

On 11/6/2022 at 12:28 PM, ccoyle said:

NOW HEAR THIS!

 

Friends,

 

MSW requires that your gallery images be posted in named gallery albums. Loose gallery images (i.e., not in albums) are periodically cleaned out (i.e., DELETED). Please note the relevant instruction posted at the top of each gallery:

 

Quote

YOU MUST create an album for each completed model and upload your images in that album.  Do not just upload images to the gallery that are not contained within an album.  These will be deleted. 

 

 

This means that @Old Rentner, @ExPat , @Начинающий судомоделист, @clearway, and @Rvandg: YOU ARE CURRENTLY AT RISK OF HAVING YOUR LOOSE GALLERY IMAGES DELETED. Please move them into albums soon! If you need help with creating an album, contact a moderator.

 

Thank you!

 

 

[MisterMeester]

I forgot to resize the images I attached to my Gallery album. Is there any way I can delete those images so I can attach the correct 1600x1200 max resized images in their stead?

 

Thanx,

Mark

[Ryland Craze]

Mark,

 

Your images have loaded into your album.  If you want to delete them, go to the image in the album that you want to delete and click on "Manage Image", which is located in the informational area below the image.  This will open up another box and scroll down to "Delete Content. Be careful!". Click on this to delete your image.

[Scottish Guy]

On 3/26/2019 at 2:37 PM, ccoyle said:

In recent months we've been having a lot of folks share images to our galleries, for which we are all grateful, but many of those images have not been placed into folders. In that sense, they're kind of like loose photos in a box -- once they get bumped off the first page of unsorted pictures, they'll be somewhere near the bottom of the box, where they'll become increasingly less likely to ever be seen again. Folders help people find your images when they search for specific models. So, create a folder, and remember to put the name of the ship in the folder's title!

 

Hi Chris, are we allowed to create folders for the build in progress as well or only for the finished models? Since I upload them to the thread about the build I think this would be ok, don´t think it would be neccessary to upload them into a gallery as well (just takes space on the HDD / server).

 

Micha

[ccoyle]

2 hours ago, Scottish Guy said:

only for the finished models

 

Yup. Gallery = finished only.

[ccoyle]

On 3/26/2019 at 10:37 AM, ccoyle said:

Hey guys and gals,

 

In recent months we've been having a lot of folks share images to our galleries, for which we are all grateful, but many of those images have not been placed into folders. In that sense, they're kind of like loose photos in a box -- once they get bumped off the first page of unsorted pictures, they'll be somewhere near the bottom of the box, where they'll become increasingly less likely to ever be seen again. Folders help people find your images when they search for specific models. So, create a folder, and remember to put the name of the ship in the folder's title!

 

Thanks!

 

Folks, we have loose images accumulating again! For @manstanley84@gmail.com@kimosubby@Buckatforfar that means that the recently uploaded photos of your beautiful models are at risk of being deleted! 😬 Please place them into albums ASAP!