Photos

[Alexam]

Can someone please explain what is needed to input photos and have the facility to allow them to be enlarged when clicked on. The photos can look so much better but all I do is reduce the size of my jpeg's to 25 0r 30% and use that.

Could it be that it has to be another format and not jpeg?

Malcolm

 

[nev]

Just try adding a pic as an attachment.

edit: By the way this is the prototype so don't judge it too harshly

 

[CHJ]

The files don't have to be over the top in physical size to give quite a lot of detail.

 

[Alexam]

Thanks guys,

I must have been having one of my 'senior moments' again. Have checked on the photos I sent in and they do enlarge. Only one of them doesn't but I can see now that it was a greater reduction than the others.
Malcolm

 

[Cordy]

Just a test

Wey Hey !! did it

 

[Alexam]

This was the first, that made me think it was wrong

 

[Alexam]

This was the first, that made me think it was wrong

and having looked at it agai,I saw the reduction was greater than the others that were with it, like this which I have now changed back to larger size

So, by reducing my originals of 2592 x 1976 px (1.7 MB) by 30% with free program 'Paint',
I get 778 x 581 px (214.4 KB)

 

[AndyT]

Lots of members use online photo hosting sites to display pictures. I do, and still use Photobucket, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, other services are available. However, it does give a nice option where the picture displayed in the forum is a small one, but clicking on it takes you to a higher resolution version, but anyone not wanting all the detail doesn't have to wait for the full size pic to download. That's especially good for anyone browsing on a mobile where they won't have unlimited data usage. As the images are not on UKW servers, they don't hit the (rather small) size limit.

There's a whole other discussion on how anyone makes money storing and displaying people's pictures for free. Some of it was touched on in this thread
photobucket-pictures-missing-t104600.html

 

[Blockplane]

If you don't mind me asking Andy - what does a Photobucket subscription cost you?

 

[AndyT]

Nothing. As with most such services, a basic account is free. There are options to "upgrade" but I have never needed to.

 

[whiskywill]

The files don't have to be over the top in physical size to give quite a lot of detail.

Where's the photo? :wink:

 

[novocaine]

I'm sick of photobucket. I've started using Flickr where I can. 1 terrabit of storage, BBcode linking (much nicer) and no popups.

 

[MikeK]

I use Flickr for some images, but have a paid account with Smugmug for my important images. I will use a discussion board's hosting services for images I don't care about, but for everything else, I want to be in control of my intellectual property and copyrights.

 

[thetyreman]

I always stick to using the forum server, using lightroom helps massively, it's very easy to limit file size on export, I remember the early photoshop days, boy have things changed since then.