Photo size/handling improvement

**Bugbear** · 3rd September 10, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

There we go! With the greatest of respect to Ted, he may know what he is talking about , many of you do, no doubt, but I for one don't. Ho Hum!

Don't worry about it, Jock, this is something ggibby could do to his settings without having the whole forum changed, and without effecting your screne.

It doesn't work if you are not logged in, though.

**ggibby** · 3rd September 10, 02:34 PM

The forum software might have an automatic option that anything over a certain size/line length is displayed at the designated max and/or thumbnailed. No user intervention needed.

Another tack - when an image is oversize, it pushed the Sponsors' left-side links out of view for the entire scroll-down, which is not to their advantage.

**Steve Ashton** · 3rd September 10, 03:08 PM

I am looking into this problem.

So far I have not found the area in the forum software that allows photos to be limited to a certain size. I'm sure it is there, I just can't find it yet.

**Deirachel** · 8th September 10, 10:09 AM

Is this running on vBB and if so which version? It certainly feels like it, but I know there are a number of mods fo YaBB which mimic vBB.

If I knew which I might be able to suggest something which would auto-resize images over a specific size down to a more standard size (say 400 pixels wide)

**Steve Ashton** · 8th September 10, 11:42 AM

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**rsvpiper** · 14th September 10, 09:48 AM

Would it be tooo much to just be able to up load direct from yer PC and not have to faff about with another sit first

Just my 2 pence worth

**BEEDEE** · 14th September 10, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by rsvpiper

Would it be tooo much to just be able to up load direct from yer PC and not have to faff about with another sit first

Just my 2 pence worth

The problem is with newer digital cameras capable of very large image sizes. I use the largest image I can get so that the quality is best when processing as a picture. For publishing on the web, I always have to re-size and my standard is 800 pixels on the longest dimension.

Brian

**McClef** · 14th September 10, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by rsvpiper

Would it be tooo much to just be able to up load direct from yer PC and not have to faff about with another sit first

Just my 2 pence worth

The problem is that the X Marks server would then have to host the pictures which would require considerable storage and also have an effect upon bandwidth which would slow your X Marks connection down.

**Bugbear** · 8th September 10, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by ggibby

The forum software might have an automatic option that anything over a certain size/line length is displayed at the designated max and/or thumbnailed. No user intervention needed.

Another tack - when an image is oversize, it pushed the Sponsors' left-side links out of view for the entire scroll-down, which is not to their advantage.

You're right; I apologize if I came across rudely. I was just thinking it might be a work around until a better solution is reached, like what you are suggesting.