Picture Size **Please Read Before Posting**

[SWFloridaGal]

What does 500px mean? When I go to my digital editing software I can change the size of a picture but it asks for 2 numbers... ie, 600x1280 or 568x7890.... etc.
Please advise what you mean when you say no more than 500px on the longest edge? (I'm new to this site as of today... I take great pix but don't know what I'm doing.... yet)

[lputman]

Originally Posted by SWFloridaGal

What does 500px mean? When I go to my digital editing software I can change the size of a picture but it asks for 2 numbers... ie, 600x1280 or 568x7890.... etc.
Please advise what you mean when you say no more than 500px on the longest edge? (I'm new to this site as of today... I take great pix but don't know what I'm doing.... yet)

Depending upon which editing software you use, you should have the option of having it automatically re-size based upon you putting in one of the 2 required numbers. Your picture is either "portrait" or "landscape". If it is portrait, then the longest edge will be the height as opposed to landscape, where the longest edge will be the width. The longest edge can be no more than 500 pixels.

[SWFloridaGal]

OK thanks... I will give it a whirl. I see I have so much to learn. i have a Nikon automatic Coolpix 3100 camera. I am just now learning about the DSLR's and am not sure which one to buy yet. This is is helpful for certain! I noticed the Rebel XTi w/3 lenses and a bunch of other goodies that I'm considering. I heard about the antishake and stabilization in the body of camera's nowadays so I'm hoping to get one of those.
Thanks for your reply and for this site!
Janice

[wulf]

You might find a site like Flickr useful. One of the reasons I decided it was worth paying $25 a year for the "Pro" account was because I had been using a free account for a while and it was such a time saver being able to upload my full size images and instantly have different sized versions available that I decided I wanted to keep adding beyond the 200 photo limit (a couple of years later and I'm up to 4000+ images!).

Posting a suitably sized picture here from Flickr is very easy and adds yet more value to having an account there (although there are also other services you may want to consider - I just happen to be a happy customer of that one).

Wulf

[Sime]

FOLKS!... As the forum grows, so does the number of posts with each assignment. Can we please refrain from quoting and including peoples photos over and over again. Comments on peoples shots are nice, but, lets just keep it to comments please. Any quote that includes a copy of someone elses' photo will be deleted.

Thanks,
Sime.

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by Sime™

FOLKS!... As the forum grows, so does the number of posts with each assignment. Can we please refrain from quoting and including peoples photos over and over again. Comments on peoples shots are nice, but, lets just keep it to comments please. Any quote that includes a copy of someone elses' photo will be deleted.

Thanks,
Sime.

A great way to make comments on people's pictures is to visit their Flickr / Picasa / Zooomer page and leave the comment on the picture there. So just a reminder to everyone posting pictures from these sites, make sure you use the version of your picture with a link

[kirants1985]

The very first post in that thread shows a small picture, but in reality, when we are downloading picture we do get the full-blown picture of size 1280x853.

There are some pictures that are being posted but, just being displayed in a reduced size, but the computer is loading the full-blown large image.

If we are making rules about size due to bandwidth restrictions, then appearance of these pictures differs.

I think, we might see some sort of difference in picture appearance that is mainly due to vary in the bandwidth.

[Major_Small]

While that's true, the major sites will resize your image on their site. When you're seeing a 'medium' image from something like Zooomr or Flickr, you're actually seeing an image that size that's already been downsized by that site's engine.

But for people hosting full sizes and using HTML to resize, it's still a benefit. I don't want to open a thread and see a 2500x3500px image on the screen. Having to scroll around to see it, and the havoc it wreaks on the borders and formatting of the board itself is very annoying.

Either way, a 500px picture is a 500px picture. Whether it's being resized by your browser, or has been resized by some other method (uploading to a popular image hosting site, or just resizing through editing software), unless your browser is woefully inadequate, it should have no problem figuring out how big 500 pixels is. Honestly, if your browser can't even measure pixels, it has no business being a browser. Showing images at the correct size would be the least of it's worries.

[wulf]

The HTML resize trick, often applied by the moderators, is a quick and easy way of showing what things look like with the rules observed without entirely removing the offending picture. Most people seem to learn (as digital photographers we should be able to get our heads round pixel dimensions) and so there aren't too many oversized images pushing up the amount of information need for any given page.

The alternatives are more radical deletion or turning oversized images into links but that risks breaking up the discussions and is definitely less friendly.

Wulf

[physmith]

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