Pics TOO BIG

[thetravelingdreamer]

I've posted two photos and was told that my pics are too big!! I'm using the link from my blog, can anyone tell me how to make it smaller?! Thank you! I don't want anyone getting mad about the large photos!! haha

Thank you!!

[SoxAddict]

Check out the "rules" thread - it's the first one on the list in "Share Your Shots". Should be quite helpful!

[FoG]

depends on your editing suite but try re-sizing one to 800 on the longest side and bigngo post that

[SusanH1970]

Originally Posted by FoG

depends on your editing suite but try re-sizing one to 800 on the longest side and bigngo post that

New rules are 740 px on the longest side.

[lputman]

If your pictures are sized bigger than 740 pixels on its longest side, then it is too big for dPS. If you are linking to the photo on your blog, you will need to modify the code to re-size the picture. You can do this to the image tag

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4285920095_1abccf2360_b.jpg" height="740">

In the example above, the link is for the large size, but I've reduced it by adding the [height="740"] so the photo displays as below.

[Gobae]

Originally Posted by lputman

If your pictures are sized bigger than 740 pixels on its longest side, then it is too big for dPS.

Do we have to go back and edit all of our previously posted photos down to 740? Or is this a "going forward" rule?

[lputman]

It is going forward rule.

[wulf]

Also, it is better to share a smaller version than using the HTML resizing trick above. It will do in a pinch but will make the page seem inexplicably slow for anyone on a slow connection. It is very easy to create a smaller copy with pretty much any half-decent image editing software or you can choose a photo-sharing site that will do this for you (one of the features that persuaded me to get into Flickr).

It helps on DPS and it will also help when you email pictures to friends and relatives. Computer capacity and bandwidth are going up but so are average picture sizes and so I still find I have other friends and relatives who ask me for advice because they are struggling with huge pictures a loved one has tried to send them

Wulf

ps. ... only one of the new posts mentioned above is still there. I dropped the other one because, not only did it have an oversized image, but it was the second SYS thread in 24 hours.

[lputman]

wulf is absolutely correct, preferably the size is originally at the proper size or smaller for posting on dPS.

[DannyF1966]

Plus, hosting the pictures on flickr uses their bandwidth, and not yours