Flickr resizing question

[nerdygirl]

Hey guys! Happy Friday

I just recently opened a Flickr account after reading that most folks on here use it, I had been using shutterfly.

Last night I used a HP photo software that came w/ my picture printer ( I cannot for the life of me remember the name) to crop some photos from a baseball game. I uploaded those into Flickr today along w/ some tarantula photos I didn't run through the software.
The baseball photos are all small when opened, but the tarantula photos are normal.

Does Flickr resize automatically or maybe did the software compress the files? I'd really like for the baseball photos to be normal size because it was a work function and my coworkers might want a copy. Is there anyway to make them larger w/o having to remove and re-upload?
Flickr: NerdyGirl615's Photostream

Thank you in advance

[Rentham]

Flickr resizes dynamically depend on what page you are viewing the photograph, but the full size version is always available. It looks like whatever cropping you did in the HP software made the "full size" photos extremely small. So flickr only has a tiny image to work with. You'll have to run them through again and re-upload to Flickr.

[gptwins]

When I look at the EXIF data for a baseball game picture I see that the editing software resized your images to 300x300 pixels per inch (ppi) where on the spider pics, they are not resized.

Check to see if there is an option in you HP software to NOT resize the image. As the software was intended for use with their printer, it is resizing the print to 300x300 ppi so printer has less to calculate during the print process.

If you are running a modern operating system, newer than Windows XP, or an OS/X version, the operating systems have decent picture editing software built in. Not great, but the software does not introduce these issues.

[Tim Spencer]

Flickr has a desktop uploader that you can download here:

Flickr: Tools to upload and share

Makes it very easy - just drag the entire file into the uploader and you are done. For cropping and organizing, etc. on your computer, I like Picasa by Google. Generally beats any software that comes with printers, etc.

Hope this helps!

[nerdygirl]

Originally Posted by Rentham

Flickr resizes dynamically depend on what page you are viewing the photograph, but the full size version is always available. It looks like whatever cropping you did in the HP software made the "full size" photos extremely small. So flickr only has a tiny image to work with. You'll have to run them through again and re-upload to Flickr.

Ahh Ha! The software was the culprit! Well that definitely helps. Thank you.

[nerdygirl]

[QUOTE=gptwins;1268326]When I look at the EXIF data for a baseball game picture I see that the editing software resized your images to 300x300 pixels per inch (ppi) where on the spider pics, they are not resized.

Check to see if there is an option in you HP software to NOT resize the image. As the software was intended for use with their printer, it is resizing the print to 300x300 ppi so printer has less to calculate during the print process.
QUOTE]

Well it makes perfect sense when you put it like that. I'll look into the resizing settings this evening.

Originally Posted by Tim Spencer

Flickr has a desktop uploader that you can download here:

Flickr: Tools to upload and share

Makes it very easy - just drag the entire file into the uploader and you are done. For cropping and organizing, etc. on your computer, I like Picasa by Google. Generally beats any software that comes with printers, etc.

Hope this helps!

Yes, all of this info has definitely helped! I usually only crop, rotate, and occasionally play with the colors. I'm not nearly advanced enough to do any Photoshop-type editing. Is Picasa good for the basics?

Thanks guys

[Tim Spencer]

Picasa is great at the basics - cropping, basic color correction and brightness, contrast. It is great at organizing too. For anything past that though, I don't use. I.e., correcting white balance, etc., editing RAW images.

[faeriegodess612]

I use Picasa, and I love it. I just use it for an organizer, or for fixing small things on snapshots. If it's something like the portraits I just did with a friend, they all got edited in Elements. Picasa just isnt as strong, and its not meant to be. It's great for first starting out though. It's easy to use, and not overwhelming.