This is such a good picture! And another example of one which looks so clearcut and sharp it's almost 3D in effect.
(I've suddenly got worried about copyright infringement because my images keep being deleted! Does that happen to any of your images? I wondered if it was the image hosting site I was using.)
Thankyou so much for your comment. So glad you like this image of the lads . To answer your question...no i haven't experienced anything like that and I can't quite understand how they are disappearing. What hosting site are you using if you don't mind me asking .
Sorry to be so long in replying, I went offline for a few hours. I've jumped around a few sites, moving on when one site seems to become unreliable and images get deleted. I've used tinypic, photobucket and lately imgur. I actually had what they call 'accounts' with imgur and photobucket but they were all free. I just don't get it because if it was to do with copyright then surely people who post frequently (which I don't) on tumblr etc would be as vulnerable as me? I think the checking is probably random, though.
I always put my images through flickr first and then download from there . It's something i can't comprehend because there are screen caps everywhere you look if it be tumblr, flickr, photo bucket etc . I will continue to monitor my account but so far everything seems fine .
Thanks, I've just had a look and realise I had used it before but didn't continue as they want the images to be a certain size, much larger than the size I use. I'm beginning to use the will to live with these things, it used to be so easy.
Just looking at my flickr site , I can see they have original size then small , medium and large . I know from your visions post that your images have to be small so that they all fit in line . I hope you can sort something soon .
Sorry if I jump in the discussion about image hosting. I may be wrong but I think in order to post images on your LJ entries, you can only do it in two ways: either uploading the pic directly to your LJ account (under the Scrapbook section; if you can't find it, just use this link http://yourjournalname.livejournal.com/photo - replace "yourjournalname" with your LJ account name, so in my case it would be http://freetraveller15.livejournal.com/photo/) and then copy the image's URL into your journal entry (you can archive your images on your LJ Scrapbook into folders, in the same way as it can be done on Photobucket, Flickr or similar). Or you upload your images to an external image hosting platform (Photobucket, Tinypic, Flickr etc) and copy the image URL into LJ. But you have to upload your image onto an account controlled by you, your own Photobucket or whatever account. You cannot "hotlink" your LJ entries to images posted on the web, anywhere, including other people's Photobucket etc accounts. Hotlinking is usually forbidden in online forums or social networks like LJ (I don't know about tumblr, though). So basically any image you'd like to post has to be saved/uploaded first onto a platform that 'belongs' to you, whether your own LJ account or Photobucket or similar sites where you have created your own account.
So what I'm trying to say is that for example if you see an image that another Photobucket user has on their account (as a public photo, because if it was set to private you wouldn't be able to see it), you cannot hotlink it to your LJ entry directly, but you have to save it first on your computer and then upload it yourself to your own platform(s), as I said either your Photobucket/Flickr etc account, or your own LJ account under Scrapbook.
If you hotlink, even if it might be allowed, you have no control over what happens to the original image. If the account holder of the image hosting account from where you've linked the image decides to delete it from his/her account, it won't be shown anymore in your posts where you've hotlinked it. Otherwise, it may be your own account but the image has been deleted without you knowing, by the image histing site because of copyright infringement: but I thought in that case the image hosting site would alert you that they had removed one of your images...? It's never happened to me, so I don't know for sure. P :)
Sorry if I jump in the discussion about image hosting.
Please don't be sorry! (and apologies to ali15son for monopolising her journal). I was hoping you might contribute but didn't like to push my luck as you've already been so helpful and given up a lot of your valuable time. Another kind fan has also suggested I use Scrapbook so it really sounds as though you're both on the right track with my problem.
I've got to go offline now but I shall read what you say again tomorrow morning when, hopefully, it will all sink into place! The way you explain things helps me to imagine or picture the whole process which I seem to need to do in order to understand things better.
Thank you so much. You and others here are all stars and have given me more hope about the journal which, with all the niggles and various problems over the past couple of years I've been getting more and more fed up with. e .g. every time I replace the images I return another day to find more images are gone...it's enough to make someone paranoid!
I don't post much off Lj, but take downs are usually followed by a notice warning of the infraction - have you trawled the site's small print (to coin a phrase)?
I doubt it's copyright too (although you can't, absolutely, rule it out) -
but, no they wouldn't - not as things currently stand. There's a lot of litigation and manoeuvring around this as we speak, but basically under most relevant jurisdictions, ultimately, it's the poster's responsibility to deal with copyright - not the hosting website's - so yours not tumblr's.
So, in order to get their stuff taken down, the copyright holder approaches the website and protests - the website then removes the offending work (and usually warns the poster). That's a huge oversimplification - but basically true - as things stand currently.
The copyright holders are pressing for this to change - hosting websites, not so keen.
But it's a fault I don't know how to deal with! And it's been happening quite often for a couple of years now. Oh well, bang goes the only thing that's any fun.
From what I've looked at today that's how I understand the situation. And I think The Professionals is still owned by a British company? I think I'd be more worried if American companies were involved because they seem a bit more litigation-happy!
It depends on the fandom - some American holders actively encourage fanworks some are dead set against them.
The music rights holders tend to be the snippiest.
My own pictures I manage pretty much as Freetraveller15 says. I don't have a hosting account (well I have an accidental Pixiv.net account so I could pick up Minori's work, but that doesn't really count).
As I'm sure you're aware, your scrapbook is on the dropdown menu which appears when you hover over your user name on your Lj account banner. I'm not sure if you've used it, but it offers a resize option when you add the pic to a post - and the option to link to a full size pic - I must admit I quite often forget that bit and have to re-edit my post.
I used it for the butterflies post you were kind enough to comment on (http://fiorenza-a.livejournal.com/33410.html) - so if you click on the picture it brings up a larger version.
You can also use the HTML view when you post to edit the size, although I tend not to do that within Lj since it gets very cranky with me.
(Currently Lj is reposting my cuts - so it shows them in place when I insert them - then when I press 'post' it either moves them or removes altogether - meaning it can take several attempts to post anything. It didn't use to do it, but every time they fiddle with it I seem to swap one set of irritations for another!)
No I havn't as I use several sites. I've looked at copyright more generally though (since this morning!). Why I got slightly spooked was because I thought I'd ask Imgur if they had an expiration period for posts and they replied with this:
Thanks for writing! There is no expiration period for posts, however posts can be deleted if we receive a valid reason for removal, such as a DMCA takedown notice claiming copyright infringement or a terms of service violation.
I wish I had something to add that would help with those disappearing images. I haven't noticed that happening in my own flickr and photobucket accounts, but then they aren't actually set to 'public' in the privacy settings. ..I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
I tend to think along Ali15son's lines, that if it were due to image copyright, alone, sites like tumblr wouldn't be around. My guess is that the DMCA small print is to cover them for certain unusually contentious situations where a formal complaint has been made. I'm separating this still image issue from the vidding one (using music and footage) which definitely does attract a lot of automated DMCA attention and action.
Most of the time I post images that I've uploaded from my computer image files, to my LJ scrapbook. From there, they can be added to your LJ or AO3 post. I think the only time the older entries have not displayed the image, was after LJ changed its privacy setting method.
I can understand how frustrating this ongoing technical issue would be. I really hope you find a workable solution. I'd hate to think we'd lose your Visions posts.
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I really like this one - I like the way Doyle's t-shirt picks up the green in the foliage and Bodie's jacket resonates with the colour of the bricks.
Doyle looks a little bit shorn in this one and Bodie a little more shaggy.
It'd make a great jigsaw puzzle...hint, hint...just saying...if anyone was listening...looks around whistling innocently...
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Date: 2016-07-23 12:20 pm (UTC)(I've suddenly got worried about copyright infringement because my images keep being deleted! Does that happen to any of your images? I wondered if it was the image hosting site I was using.)
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Date: 2016-07-23 07:28 pm (UTC)My images are usually about 375 x 325 which includes the borders.
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Date: 2016-07-23 08:54 pm (UTC)I may be wrong but I think in order to post images on your LJ entries, you can only do it in two ways: either uploading the pic directly to your LJ account (under the Scrapbook section; if you can't find it, just use this link http://yourjournalname.livejournal.com/photo - replace "yourjournalname" with your LJ account name, so in my case it would be http://freetraveller15.livejournal.com/photo/) and then copy the image's URL into your journal entry (you can archive your images on your LJ Scrapbook into folders, in the same way as it can be done on Photobucket, Flickr or similar).
Or you upload your images to an external image hosting platform (Photobucket, Tinypic, Flickr etc) and copy the image URL into LJ. But you have to upload your image onto an account controlled by you, your own Photobucket or whatever account. You cannot "hotlink" your LJ entries to images posted on the web, anywhere, including other people's Photobucket etc accounts. Hotlinking is usually forbidden in online forums or social networks like LJ (I don't know about tumblr, though).
So basically any image you'd like to post has to be saved/uploaded first onto a platform that 'belongs' to you, whether your own LJ account or Photobucket or similar sites where you have created your own account.
So what I'm trying to say is that for example if you see an image that another Photobucket user has on their account (as a public photo, because if it was set to private you wouldn't be able to see it), you cannot hotlink it to your LJ entry directly, but you have to save it first on your computer and then upload it yourself to your own platform(s), as I said either your Photobucket/Flickr etc account, or your own LJ account under Scrapbook.
If you hotlink, even if it might be allowed, you have no control over what happens to the original image. If the account holder of the image hosting account from where you've linked the image decides to delete it from his/her account, it won't be shown anymore in your posts where you've hotlinked it.
Otherwise, it may be your own account but the image has been deleted without you knowing, by the image histing site because of copyright infringement: but I thought in that case the image hosting site would alert you that they had removed one of your images...? It's never happened to me, so I don't know for sure.
P :)
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Date: 2016-07-23 09:37 pm (UTC)Please don't be sorry! (and apologies to ali15son for monopolising her journal). I was hoping you might contribute but didn't like to push my luck as you've already been so helpful and given up a lot of your valuable time. Another kind fan has also suggested I use Scrapbook so it really sounds as though you're both on the right track with my problem.
I've got to go offline now but I shall read what you say again tomorrow morning when, hopefully, it will all sink into place! The way you explain things helps me to imagine or picture the whole process which I seem to need to do in order to understand things better.
Thank you so much. You and others here are all stars and have given me more hope about the journal which, with all the niggles and various problems over the past couple of years I've been getting more and more fed up with. e .g. every time I replace the images I return another day to find more images are gone...it's enough to make someone paranoid!
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Date: 2016-07-23 01:58 pm (UTC)I don't post much off Lj, but take downs are usually followed by a notice warning of the infraction - have you trawled the site's small print (to coin a phrase)?
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I doubt it's copyright too (although you can't, absolutely, rule it out) -
but, no they wouldn't - not as things currently stand. There's a lot of litigation and manoeuvring around this as we speak, but basically under most relevant jurisdictions, ultimately, it's the poster's responsibility to deal with copyright - not the hosting website's - so yours not tumblr's.
So, in order to get their stuff taken down, the copyright holder approaches the website and protests - the website then removes the offending work (and usually warns the poster). That's a huge oversimplification - but basically true - as things stand currently.
The copyright holders are pressing for this to change - hosting websites, not so keen.
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Yeah, that's what I'm hoping - and, to be fair, as you say, probably is :0)
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It depends on the fandom - some American holders actively encourage fanworks some are dead set against them.
The music rights holders tend to be the snippiest.
My own pictures I manage pretty much as Freetraveller15 says. I don't have a hosting account (well I have an accidental Pixiv.net account so I could pick up Minori's work, but that doesn't really count).
As I'm sure you're aware, your scrapbook is on the dropdown menu which appears when you hover over your user name on your Lj account banner. I'm not sure if you've used it, but it offers a resize option when you add the pic to a post - and the option to link to a full size pic - I must admit I quite often forget that bit and have to re-edit my post.
I used it for the butterflies post you were kind enough to comment on (http://fiorenza-a.livejournal.com/33410.html) - so if you click on the picture it brings up a larger version.
You can also use the HTML view when you post to edit the size, although I tend not to do that within Lj since it gets very cranky with me.
(Currently Lj is reposting my cuts - so it shows them in place when I insert them - then when I press 'post' it either moves them or removes altogether - meaning it can take several attempts to post anything. It didn't use to do it, but every time they fiddle with it I seem to swap one set of irritations for another!)
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Date: 2016-07-23 04:05 pm (UTC)Thanks for writing! There is no expiration period for posts, however posts can be deleted if we receive a valid reason for removal, such as a DMCA takedown notice claiming copyright infringement or a terms of service violation.
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Date: 2016-07-24 05:21 am (UTC)I tend to think along Ali15son's lines, that if it were due to image copyright, alone, sites like tumblr wouldn't be around. My guess is that the DMCA small print is to cover them for certain unusually contentious situations where a formal complaint has been made. I'm separating this still image issue from the vidding one (using music and footage) which definitely does attract a lot of automated DMCA attention and action.
Most of the time I post images that I've uploaded from my computer image files, to my LJ scrapbook. From there, they can be added to your LJ or AO3 post. I think the only time the older entries have not displayed the image, was after LJ changed its privacy setting method.
I can understand how frustrating this ongoing technical issue would be. I really hope you find a workable solution. I'd hate to think we'd lose your Visions posts.
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Date: 2016-07-23 08:58 pm (UTC)Thank you x
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