Picture Resizing on the Forum

shaunf

Hi guys,

I'm aware that the forum automatically resizes photos posted. I'm not sure of the exact size, but I think it's 640x480. The reason for this post is to ask whether or not firstly, would it be possible to increase this autoresize level to a higer resolution like 800x600 or possibly even 1024x768, and if possible, secondly whether anyone actually agrees with me that 640x480 is possibly a little on the small side and that it would be nice to see a little more detail in photos.

Regards,
Shaun

MikeM

+1 to 640x480 being tiny :\ 800/900x600 would be cool.

Norman86

Have you tried right clicking on the picture and , (in FF) opening it up or saving it?
it only appears smaller on the forum, it normally downloads in the full resolution for me!

Bob-Dubery

The picture is downloaded in full, but the forum software generates size parameters which tell your browser to rescale the image.

EG
<img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lrQs91BnFKg/T0p1lDXCzxI/AAAAAAAADlM/BY8wrJhMUw8/s800/DSCF1663.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" border="0" />

That's from a post that I made today. The actual size of the picture is 800 x 600, but the forum software is telling the browser to resize it to 600 x 450. The resize calculation seems to happen after you clicke the "post" button.

This doesn't save bandwidth, but it does reduce screen real estate needs, and it may be necessary to keep forum pages properly formatted at display time. Also letting the software control the sizing exerts some control over people posting huge pictures that are likely to fill up a screen or be even bigger if not resized.

shaunf

X-rated Bob wrote: The picture is downloaded in full, but the forum software generates size parameters which tell your browser to rescale the image.

EG
<img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lrQs91BnFKg/T0p1lDXCzxI/AAAAAAAADlM/BY8wrJhMUw8/s800/DSCF1663.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" border="0" />

That's from a post that I made today. The actual size of the picture is 800 x 600, but the forum software is telling the browser to resize it to 600 x 450. The resize calculation seems to happen after you clicke the "post" button.

This doesn't save bandwidth, but it does reduce screen real estate needs, and it may be necessary to keep forum pages properly formatted at display time. Also letting the software control the sizing exerts some control over people posting huge pictures that are likely to fill up a screen or be even bigger if not resized.

Thanks, thats what I meant. Can't that browser instruction to change the display size be changed to something like 800x600 at least? That would still ensure that large images are constrained to displaying at a certain predefined maximum size, but also give you a larger, more visible image.

MikeM

X-rated Bob wrote:This doesn't save bandwidth, but it does reduce screen real estate needs, and it may be necessary to keep forum pages properly formatted at display time. Also letting the software control the sizing exerts some control over people posting huge pictures that are likely to fill up a screen or be even bigger if not resized.

I think what Shaun meant is that nowadays most people have a bit higher res than the old 1024x768, and the standard could be brought up a bit.

Woops - didn't see your post!

AlanRatcliffe

I have the max width set to 600px wide to stop larger images from messing up the site display - especially on smaller screens. We will be adding in a bar on the right in the future, which will take up more of the horizontal screen real estate.

If you need to post a large pic for detail, rather link to the full image.