What in-thread max. image size do you want?

[Addy101]

An iPad Mini (that is quite popular around here, though I don't know why) and a lot of other mobile devices have 1024 as horizontal resolution, so, by default, 1024 is too big. 800 is the ideal size.

 

[daveleo]

Doing a screen cap of the forum shown by Firefox (with tab bar and one toolbar showing) on my netbook, I get the available space for a single image is 1027X642.

I voted for max 800 wide max.

This poll is essentially a "How big is your screen?" poll. (That was a realization, not a criticism.)

 

[judsonzhao]

1920
Who doesn't have a 1080p monitor these days? : )

 

[helen.HH]

arghhhhh, don't want to Complain 🙄
but the more I see the new 'look' of photos (yes I realize you can click on it to get bigger but could it be bigger on the click version )
the more I WANT BIGGER....Please 🙂

 

[Bingley]

I'm pretty much with Helen, although I think that 1024 is a reasonable limit. I get a lot more out of the W/NW threads b/c the images are larger. I've stopped posting to the Gallery here in part b/c it was too much of a pain to resize images (compared to tge size I use for flickr and iPernity) to fit the Gallery's size limitations (and result in a thumbnail that's only displayed in the Gallery for a nanosecond). I sympathesize with members who have slow internet connections (I did too) but the technology now allows larger files to be uploaded and displayed with much higher quality than before. We shoukd take advantage of that capability.

 

[cz23]

Since the vast majority favor 800 or 1024, why not settle on 900 max.?

That actually makes sense. A display set at 1024 x 768 has a browser window height of around 600. For a 3:2 image, that's 900 wide. Seems a good compromise.

John

 

[Dektol Dan]

The World Standard for Photo Size

The World Standard for Photo Size

Are porn sites. The image is everything there. Quality should always come first in displaying a quality product.

Only frustrated folks attempt to surf for porn with the image sizes proposed here.

Are you satisfied being a one hand clapper? I'm not. I want to view this site's imagery on a two fisted monitor!

 

[locheeboy]

As one who is sick fed up scrolling sideways (monitor is 1920x12000 in wide mode) ah welcome a size limitation. An image(s) which are too wide ruins the whole of that page meaning most folk give up

Too many folk here give it "well look how much space I can take up"...it's inconsiderate. 🙁

 

[divewizard]

1280 is just a touch too big. 1200 works great on most monitors.

 

[rluka]

How about finding a rocket scientist to create a "publish" preset to use in Lightroom.

I use LR to do my resizing and it's great - I was never able to get it right until I recently started using LR. But the extra step to upload each image to RFF is really clunky compared to the publish services that are supported by Flickr and many others...

Don't know what this entails but I would support it with a contribution to cover costs...

Picture size is the easier part. There's even command line tool that can be used to automatically resize all pictures in a folder to smaller size.

The part that I found more difficult is file size limitation because you'll have to try with the JPG compression to see which value would make the file small enough to upload.

Does Lightroom do automatic resizing based on file size too ?

 

[sevo]

1280 is just a touch too big. 1200 works great on most monitors.

The same goes for every image resolution that exactly matches a common monitor native width without accounting for the space needed by OS and browser elements. If any, these sizes deserve a nomination for "most annoying size" - being unpleasant to read or view by a excess of 5% or less gets my goat far more than anything four times the size of my screen.

 

[f16sunshine]

Picture size is the easier part. There's even command line tool that can be used to automatically resize all pictures in a folder to smaller size.

The part that I found more difficult is file size limitation because you'll have to try with the JPG compression to see which value would make the file small enough to upload.

Does Lightroom do automatic resizing based on file size too ?

There is a new solution for that.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=143002

 

[seakayaker1]

I voted 1024, the 800 should be the minimum. The current defaults are just too small.

JMHO

 

[Godfrey]

I post photos to flickr.com that fit in a 1200x1200 box, depending upon the format of the image (square, rectangular for portrait or landscape). I then link those photos to this and other web forums for folks to view them.

What I'm a little disturbed at is that the latest photo I posted which has dimensions 1200x1024 native has been scaled down to a small thumbnail image that looks terrible. At least when flickr scales down the image, it still looks ok. RFF didn't do that scaling before.

I would suggest that the site should be set up to allow up to about 1024 square or 1200 square without scaling, and then scale anything larger down to those dimensions. Give users the ability to see an unscaled rendering on demand as well. Most people enjoying these forums have tablets with 1024x768 or larger displays, and computer displays with much more pixels than that.

G

 

[Vincent.G]

I voted for 1024 maximum.
Let those who wants to view a smaller size click on the photo... Just kidding!😀

 

[CameraQuest]

By the end of the day, the picture resizing will be 1024.

We will see how that works out in practice, and adjust if need be.

Stephen

 

[Sparrow]

... good man!

 

[Godfrey]

...

Does Lightroom do automatic resizing based on file size too ?

Yes. Give LR a set of dimensions and a max file size and it will adjust JPEG compression to try to hit those specifications on export.

Of course, what you're exporting has to be in a reasonable range for it to succeed at doing that with good results. That's why it's important to know the "ideal" target output for the dimensions and file size you're trying to hit.

G

 

[jmanivelle]

So when can we have the 1024 px base effective?

Cheers JM

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

By the end of the day, the picture resizing will be 1024.

We will see how that works out in practice, and adjust if need be.

Stephen

Thanks, it works great !