ALL ABOUT 'IN FOCUS 2019'
Hello everyone, and welcome to The Digital Press's newest year-long memory-keeping project for 2019! 
Last year we brought you the SCRAP IT | 2018 series, in order to make it quicker and simpler to document each month of the year... and this year, we're going to be focusing on using photos (along with photo prompts, that we'll provide) in order to capture the little Everyday stuff in our lives that sometimes goes unnoticed, but which truly can paint a lasting picture of what our lives were like at any given moment in our individual histories.
And so... each Monday throughout 2019, we'll be posting a photo prompt -- usually just a single word -- as a guide for something you should document photographically with your camera.
Additionally... each month, we'll be hosting a corresponding challenge (over in THE CROSSWORD SECTION, here in the forum) that requires you to scrap the photos you took in the previous month (so, for instance, in February 2019... you'll be scrapping the photos you took in January 2019... and so on...).
We invite everyone to jump in and play along with this IN FOCUS 2019 project -- even if you have no interest in the scrapbooking-related challenges -- and use our prompts, take your photos, and post them here for everyone else who's participating! We think it will be fun to see how everyone else is interpreting the prompts... and we also think ti will help each of us stick with it, if we have other people here to help motivate us and hold us accountable and inspire us to take (and share) these photos!
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Q: WHAT'S REQUIRED IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE?
A: Just a camera of some kind, and an account at a photo-sharing site of some kind (such as Flickr, Imgur, Tinypic, etc.)
Q: HOW DO I SHARE MY PHOTOS EACH WEEK?
A: Once you take your photo, based on the photo prompt here at TDP... you'll upload that photo to a photo-sharing site (or if you happen to have a blog of your own, you can even use the media/image feature/area of your site and "host" the photo there)... and then you'll copy the image URL (which is the image address, on the internet) wherever it happens to be "hosted"... and you'll come back here to the forum thread that corresponds to that week's IN FOCUS 2019 photo prompt... and you'll start your own post in that thread... and paste your image URL in that forum thread, using the forum's "Image" button or by typing BBcode around the image URL (see examples, below)...
EXAMPLES FOR POSTING PHOTOS...
...let's say we want to post a copy of Karla Noél's newest word art set, from the shop -- found at this URL --> http://shop.thedigitalpress.co/Jan-o...ck-Stamps.html
First, we will visit that page, hover our mouse over the preview image, and right-click on it. We'll choose the option "Copy Image Address" from the pop-up menu. Then, we'll come back to this forum thread/post and paste that URL here, like this ---> http://shop.thedigitalpress.co/image...cks_pv_873.jpg
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL -- THERE'S MORE!
...in order to make that image actually show up here in the forum, we'll do one of the following 2 things:
(A) "wrap that image URL in BBcode" -- which simply means that we'll type the following text around that image URL we just pasted into the thread. First, just before the image, we'll type [ I M G ] and then just after the image, we'll type [ / I M G ] ...with the only difference being that we will NOT type in the spaces I just included (I added those so the forum wouldn't change the code within the brackets once I post this example thread... LOL).
---OR---
(B) we can use the "Image" button that appears at the top of any post that we're drafting here in the forum. If you look at the menu that appears above the text you're typing when you create a forum post/response... you'll see little groupings of icons. There's one 4-part grouping that contains a little chain (link), a chain w/ an "X" (unlink), a landscape-orientation photo with mountains on it (image), and a flimstrip (insert video). CHOOSE/CLICK THAT 3rd ONE -- "image". When the pop-up window appears, the default tab should be "Image Info" and the first text field should be "URL" -- just paste your image URL into that field! Do not click the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" checkbox, though! And do not switch to the "upload" tab, either, because you don't want to upload your photo to our site (and we don't want you to, either, because it won't display here in the forum properly).
If we do either of these methods (A or B) properly... the image should show up like this...
For what it's worth... I typed in the BBcode around the image URL in order to post that image right there! But the forum changed the image tags -- the [ I M G ] and [ / I M G ] part, along w/ the image URL address -- so that it simply displays the photo, instead.
EASY PEASY, RIGHT?!
...so let's get going, and kick-off IN FOCUS 2019!
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Last year we brought you the SCRAP IT | 2018 series, in order to make it quicker and simpler to document each month of the year... and this year, we're going to be focusing on using photos (along with photo prompts, that we'll provide) in order to capture the little Everyday stuff in our lives that sometimes goes unnoticed, but which truly can paint a lasting picture of what our lives were like at any given moment in our individual histories.
And so... each Monday throughout 2019, we'll be posting a photo prompt -- usually just a single word -- as a guide for something you should document photographically with your camera.
Additionally... each month, we'll be hosting a corresponding challenge (over in THE CROSSWORD SECTION, here in the forum) that requires you to scrap the photos you took in the previous month (so, for instance, in February 2019... you'll be scrapping the photos you took in January 2019... and so on...).
We invite everyone to jump in and play along with this IN FOCUS 2019 project -- even if you have no interest in the scrapbooking-related challenges -- and use our prompts, take your photos, and post them here for everyone else who's participating! We think it will be fun to see how everyone else is interpreting the prompts... and we also think ti will help each of us stick with it, if we have other people here to help motivate us and hold us accountable and inspire us to take (and share) these photos!
.
.
Q: WHAT'S REQUIRED IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE?
A: Just a camera of some kind, and an account at a photo-sharing site of some kind (such as Flickr, Imgur, Tinypic, etc.)
Q: HOW DO I SHARE MY PHOTOS EACH WEEK?
A: Once you take your photo, based on the photo prompt here at TDP... you'll upload that photo to a photo-sharing site (or if you happen to have a blog of your own, you can even use the media/image feature/area of your site and "host" the photo there)... and then you'll copy the image URL (which is the image address, on the internet) wherever it happens to be "hosted"... and you'll come back here to the forum thread that corresponds to that week's IN FOCUS 2019 photo prompt... and you'll start your own post in that thread... and paste your image URL in that forum thread, using the forum's "Image" button or by typing BBcode around the image URL (see examples, below)...
EXAMPLES FOR POSTING PHOTOS...
...let's say we want to post a copy of Karla Noél's newest word art set, from the shop -- found at this URL --> http://shop.thedigitalpress.co/Jan-o...ck-Stamps.html
First, we will visit that page, hover our mouse over the preview image, and right-click on it. We'll choose the option "Copy Image Address" from the pop-up menu. Then, we'll come back to this forum thread/post and paste that URL here, like this ---> http://shop.thedigitalpress.co/image...cks_pv_873.jpg
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL -- THERE'S MORE!
...in order to make that image actually show up here in the forum, we'll do one of the following 2 things:
(A) "wrap that image URL in BBcode" -- which simply means that we'll type the following text around that image URL we just pasted into the thread. First, just before the image, we'll type [ I M G ] and then just after the image, we'll type [ / I M G ] ...with the only difference being that we will NOT type in the spaces I just included (I added those so the forum wouldn't change the code within the brackets once I post this example thread... LOL).
---OR---
(B) we can use the "Image" button that appears at the top of any post that we're drafting here in the forum. If you look at the menu that appears above the text you're typing when you create a forum post/response... you'll see little groupings of icons. There's one 4-part grouping that contains a little chain (link), a chain w/ an "X" (unlink), a landscape-orientation photo with mountains on it (image), and a flimstrip (insert video). CHOOSE/CLICK THAT 3rd ONE -- "image". When the pop-up window appears, the default tab should be "Image Info" and the first text field should be "URL" -- just paste your image URL into that field! Do not click the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" checkbox, though! And do not switch to the "upload" tab, either, because you don't want to upload your photo to our site (and we don't want you to, either, because it won't display here in the forum properly).
If we do either of these methods (A or B) properly... the image should show up like this...
For what it's worth... I typed in the BBcode around the image URL in order to post that image right there! But the forum changed the image tags -- the [ I M G ] and [ / I M G ] part, along w/ the image URL address -- so that it simply displays the photo, instead.
EASY PEASY, RIGHT?!
...so let's get going, and kick-off IN FOCUS 2019!
.
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