Photo size/handling improvement

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

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GG · 8th September 10, 11:52 AM

Maybe we should have a poll just to find out how big the problem is.

An old 15” monitor is down to 800 pixels. A newer lap top one might be higher. Most 17” are at least 1024 pixels, a 21” 1600 pixels and my 24” monitor is 1920 pixels.

On high resolution monitors low resolution pictures look tiny.

Pictures coming right from the camera are by far too big for any monitor! They must be reduced before uploading.

Greg

**BLHS209** · 8th September 10, 02:38 PM

The "problem" is that our images are off site then linked in a Thread, so there is no real control to the size. The only way to control this would be for "X" to start allowing the photos to be stored on their server.

This is what places like Facebook and others do. It doesn't matter the original size, it gets reduced to the maximum size they want. If you have Facebook, try loading a large sized image then download it and recheck the size. It is greatly reduced.

**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.

**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.