some gallery changes

[MP Guy]

Well, As you can see, rff is growing. With growth comes bandwidth consumption. I have reduced the number of latest images to display on the gallery page and have reduced the max picture width and height to 800 pixels. Sorry folks 🙁 I am looking into a hosting site as well where better bandwidth can be provided.

Graciass 🙂

 

[DougK]

No problem, Jorge. Will we need to resize our existing images or is this a "going forward" kind of thing?

 

[wlewisiii]

Agreed. I've alread been resizing to 800 max for my recent postings, but would it help to go back through the older ones?

William

 

[MP Guy]

I will kick off a long job tonight to resize them. probably very intensive.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I already resize so that it doesn't get resized by the gallery; the compression gets rather nasty.

Does this mean that with tonight's job all images will be resized, or only the ones that exceed the dimensions?

BTW, I think it's a great thing another foot is coming down on the size limitations. I've seen some pictures that just make me think that either the uploader is clueless or reckless.

 

[back alley]

the gallery is a little wacky!
everything resizes to the same small postage stamp size.

 

[RayPA]

the gallery is a little wacky!
everything resizes to the same small postage stamp size.

I just came over to report the same thing. When you click on an image it's no bigger than the thumbnail.

🙂

 

[Toby]

A maximum size is just good manners towards anyone with a slow internet coonection

 

[taffer]

I agree, we're quite a bunch of people here nowadays...

 

[dcsang]

Sounds fair.. I never make my images any bigger than 600px on the longest side anyway 😀

I'm all about saving the bandwidth 🙂

Dave

 

[JoeFriday]

the gallery seems to be working fine now

as for image size.. I've always formatted mine to be 720dpi max (10 inches at 72 dpi) on the long edge.. so 800 dpi is plenty big enough

 

[back alley]

i also don't like scrolling to see one image.

i mostly post a between 650 and 800.

joe

 

[einolu]

I know that there are a few old galleries that could be deleted. For example, my gallery strangely got renamed to 'timg' so I had to upload things again. I think that was the case with some other people as well. Just giving you a heads up!

 

[kiev4a]

One of the things that takes up a lot of space ins the dpi some folks seem to be using. Looks like some must be saving at 300 dpi or above as slow as they load, when 72 dpi is actually fine for viewing on a computer screen. I think most of my oploads are below 80 k and I just noticed one recent post that was 7624.4 k -- a lot of 'em over 1000. Unless the poster is hoping the virews are going to download the picture and print it out (unlikely) that's just a wastes of space.

 

[peter_n]

Good point kiev4a. Maybe Jorge should be looking at file size as distinct from image size. Anything over say 250K, dump it!

 

[Roman]

Good idea about max. file size - but maybe put a big sign on top of the gallery that says "72dpi 800x600 -sized images are perfect for web viewing!" - I think many people don't know about that, and that's why they don't resize before posting.
At photo.net, pictures wider than 511 pixels won't even be displayed in threads, only as links.

Roman

 

[einolu]

just throwing this out there, but would anybody be up for a gallery reset? as in, everybody starts fresh and puts up pictures starting now? then the uploaded images could be resized automatically to the standard 72dpi 600px wide or whatever and there would be less of a strain on bandwidth.

 

[RayPA]

... "72dpi 800x600 -sized images are perfect for web viewing!" - I think many people don't know about that, and that's why they don't resize before posting...
Roman

I agree, Roman. I think it is just that people don't understand the concept. Actually, uploading 72 dpi is also a (very) minor way to copy-protect your images. At that dpi, they are useless for anything other than viewing on a monitor. Uploading 300 dpi or higher allows someone to download your work and print themselves out a nice copy and do what they want with it. Just a consideration (and an incentive 😉 ).

On another note, I miss the other two rows in the Recent Uploads. Is this "change" really necessary? The Gallery Home page looks ugly without the other two rows, IMHO.

🙂

 

[markinlondon]

I think this is a very smart move, I'd never dream of posting anything over 700 px on the long side as the only reason I bought a broadband connection was my inability to view photo sites due to the size of submissions.

Thanks for the tip re 72dpi and copy protection, Ray, that just hadn't occured to me.

Mark

 

[Doug]

just throwing this out there, but would anybody be up for a gallery reset? as in, everybody starts fresh and puts up pictures starting now? then the uploaded images could be resized automatically to the standard 72dpi 600px wide or whatever and there would be less of a strain on bandwidth.

This would lose all those valuable, fun, interesting feedback comments, wouldn't it?