Posting photos on RFF

[MartinL]

With all apologies and caveats, and is this the worst question you've read today or in this millennium?

I see many largish images embedded in posts, but all I can ever manage are teeny thumbnail-sized pics or links. What's your workfllow to get a decent sized pic embedded?

Thanks,
Martin

 

[Ezzie]

Attaching files limits size to 600x600, and it gets shown as a thumbnail in the post - you need to ooen it to see the "full" sized image. Linking to an image hosted elsewhere puts no limit on the image size.

 

[astro8]

If you don't have or want a flickr (or similiar) account, an easy way is to start uploading your images to the Gallery, then insert image into your post from there.

I usually upload 640x427px, sometimes 800x600px which I find is large enough but not too large to annoy anyone.

 

[MartinL]

Thanks. I'm partial to large. I like the easy access via Ezzie's "Silver Halide" link and those pics show up at about the right size---wish I could go even "deeper." And I ind your and Greg's great pics in your homepage and Gallery links frustrating. This is simply a matter of how I experience photos. IMO, if it's worth looking at, it's worth seeing big.

l I'll see what happens to this paste and link. Hope it doesn't annoy.


http://www.kpntrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Band-Pub-031.jpg

 

[Doug]

Thanks. I'm partial to large. I like the easy access via Ezzie's "Silver Halide" link and those pics show up at about the right size---wish I could go even "deeper." And I ind your and Greg's great pics in your homepage and Gallery links frustrating. This is simply a matter of how I experience photos. IMO, if it's worth looking at, it's worth seeing big.

l I'll see what happens to this paste and link. Hope it doesn't annoy.

http://www.kpntrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Band-Pub-031.jpg

Hi Martin... A couple of things good about modest image size in posts:
The larger the image file size, the longer it takes to appear. The more large images in a thread, the slower it reads.
And, if the image is wider than a typical browser window, the image stretches each post out to the same width, meaning a reader has to scroll right and left to read each full line. Annoying!

Your link goes to an image 4086px × 2724px, which I'll suggest is about 4x too wide for comfort if it were to appear in the thread. If you keep it 1024px that would be ok, and 800px is fine. Be kind to others! 🙂 If you really want to show off a big image for people to pixel-peep, then you can still put a link to the external source in your post.

 

[Lachie C]

I might ask in here, I've recently signed up and I like the gallery function; but the managing of the files external to lightroom isn't ideal. flickr and lightroom integrate wonderfully, but I still have to upload to rff gallery separately.

I think flickr is great for the social aspect but I prefer the critique and discussion of rff, particularly watching the gallery throughout the day.

That is what I call a dilemma, any thoughts?

 

[dct]

Being active in different fora and gallery systems I'm used to upload images separately to each platform. It only takes getting used to operate the different upload solutions. 😉
For forum post I've always a separate 800px (longest) dimension image ready, usually compressed JPEG to 70 %.