A request to photographers posting pix

[errolmartyn]

To those who have been posting large photos/images on the board, please post smaller sized ones in future. These large ones render viewing of posts in general a pain, as the content then exceeds the screen width.

Errol

[baz62]

Lets not put anyone off trying to post photos on here as we will miss something interesting! Not evryone is PC savvy and if you don't like the large photo copy it and look at it at your leisure (then delete it if concerend you might forget whose it is or record the owner so credit is given).
Personally I just scroll across. Some browsers allow you to "zoom in" the page.

[shamus]

Baz, i must say i agree with Errol. It is a pain. Fortunately does not happen often but if posters can think about it before they post, it would be great.

[Dave Homewood]

If people have large photos and don't know how to reduce them, they can attach it with the forum's own photo attachment in the Reply page.

That way it's small on the main thread but can be opened large by those who want to look. That way no-one is discouraged, and we all get to see the picture, but those who don't like the Last 100 Posts thread blown out will stop sending me emails moaning.

[corsair67]

Come on all you dinosaurs, get a bigger monitor! ;D

Dave, I think we've asked posters once before to only post images at around 640 x 800 size?

[Dave Homewood]

Actually I find 1000 pixels wide works best, goes just to the edges when using Photobucket.

[Dave Homewood]

And I don't have a widescreen monitor either, although it is flatscreen.

[Luther Moore]

Best way is Imageshack imageshack.us/ just upload your photo and press 640x480 (For message boards) option. Wndows paint works well too.

[Dave Homewood]

How do your reduce a photo in Windows Paint? I have never worked that out, I find the program pretty useless and use Photoshop.

[Luther Moore]

Just open it and up the top click 'Image' then clck 'Stretch/Screw' then it shouuld say Horzontal-%100 and Vertical %100, jst change what percentage you want.I start off with %50/%50 and if its still too big keep playing with it till I get t right.

Dont forget if you save it save it as something else so it doesn't replace the old photo just incase you make a mistake

[ErrolC]

As there seems to be some mis-understanding about the issues that wide photos cause, let me have a go at explaining.

With some browsers/operating system combinations (e.g Firefox on Windows7), a wide photo causes all text lines in all posts on the page of the forum currently being displayed to be as wide as the photo.

So on the current 'last 100 posts' page there is at least one photo that is 1024 pixels wide. The text in every message on the page (regardless of which thread it is in) will not wrap to the next line until it has reached the same width as the wide photo. If you make the browser window narrower than than photo, then you have the scroll from side-to-side to read the text on each post (not just the text on the post with the wide photo).

Now I could have my browser window the full width of my 1920px screen, and avoid that particular issue. But there is a reason that large coffee table books (for instance) don't run blocks of text across the entire wide of a page (breaking it up to columns instead) - it is a right pain to read from one line to the next when the page is a foot wide.
So I have the browser window a bit more than half the screen width most of the time. Photos that are 1024 wide fit within the window, the text fits in the window, no sidewards scrolling needed, you can read paragraphs of text easily.

Note that smartphones and tablets that I have used have handled this situation more elegantly. Other browsers and operating systems may also be better at this aspect of things. And me making use of the 'last 100 posts' feature probably maximises the problem. Occasionally a deal with a one-off image on the forum by having my ad-blocker block the image.

Therefore, please limit the size of photos something like 1024 pixels (which is a default size available in nearly all software dealing with photos.)
I'm happy to give people pointers on sharing and tweaking photos, I use Flickr myself.

Thanks :-)
ErrolC (not errolmartyn, with whom I seem to be in violent agreement with)

[corsairarm]

Well I guess I am one of the quilty ones. It took me ages to work out how to post photos through photobucket. I use Photoshope Elements 4 and that rather basically i.e. tag and folders and that is it.
I don't know how to reduce photo sizes or add a copyright thingy on the photo so I just post the image I have. They look good.
My computer is Windows XP and I use Firefox.
If any one can help I will be glad to change. If I can't work it out then I won't post photos. I am not being mean when I say this as it annoys me having to scroll right to read a thread. I never knew what caused it.
ErrolC. Sorry I missed you on Saturday. I did look around the Jags for you.

[phil82]

"Stretch/Screw"? Does one have to pay for that or is it standard?

[Bruce]

Open Microsoft Picture manager - its a standard part of the MS office suite so most PCs will have it somewhere. there is a function there called "Resize" and it has a number of presets plus the ability to enter any size that you choose.

[Luther Moore]

Stretch/screw is standard on Paint.

[htbrst]

Oct 4, 2012 16:52:12 GMT 12 Bruce said:

Open Microsoft Picture manager - its a standard part of the MS office suite so most PCs will have it somewhere. there is a function there called "Resize" and it has a number of presets plus the ability to enter any size that you choose.

Picture Manager tends to be what I point people to first as well since so many people have it - and can often be accessed cheaply a variety of ways (e.g. most universities have a home use licence available to staff and their families)

Using picture manager you can also resize in bulk , just select all of the pictures (e.g. in the filmstrip view) and then use the resize tool

[ErrolC]

Oct 4, 2012 16:15:49 GMT 12 corsairarm said:

Well I guess I am one of the quilty ones. It took me ages to work out how to post photos through photobucket. I use Photoshope Elements 4 and that rather basically i.e. tag and folders and that is it.
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ErrolC. Sorry I missed you on Saturday. I did look around the Jags for you.

I use a later version of Photoshop Elements.
On mine go to the 'Image' menu, then 'Resize' -> 'Image Size'.
Hopefully you will now have a dialog box, which has more things to fiddle with than you can make sense of :-)
First check that Width and Height will change together. In mine this means making sure that 'Constrain Proportions' is ticked.
Second check that you are setting the Width (and Height) as pixels, rather than as a percent of the original, this should be indicated, change if needed.
Then just type the Width you want in the 'Width' box, e.g. 1024
Then 'Save As' the file so you don't over-write your original.


The other approach is the load the full-size photo to Photobucket, and get Photobucket to give the forum a smaller version. I believe this is fairly straightforward, I'll let someone who uses it explain.


I shamelessly used the Jag for early access, then ran for the fence :-)

[baz62]

Ah I see Errol I didn't realise that issue with text. Yes i wouldn't like that either!

[suthg]

There is another feature in MS Office Picture Manager and that is the Export function.

Once the size is re-set, top right Edit menu and select EXPORT , then you can alter the name of the changed size image with ??????Sml.jpg on the end or something so you end up with two files of the same image with the same base filename.

Graeme

[kiwithrottlejockey]

Oct 4, 2012 15:09:20 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

Actually I find 1000 pixels wide works best, goes just to the edges when using Photobucket.

One of my laptops has 1600 pixel width display and the other laptop has 1920 pixel width (HD).

However, I try to keep images sizes down to a maximum of 1000 pixels width, although the occasional larger one will sneak through if it is only a little bit bigger.