Posting normal-sized pictures? But Forum freaking out?

[stubhead]

Lately it seems as though a lot of the pictures, which the forum hardware used to shrink, if I understand things correctly*- aren't getting shrunk and you get the little bar across the bottom. Greater minds than I'n are needed...

*(doubtful.)

 

[mayfly]

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[Steve_Karl]

Show examples of bad and good?

 

[Cagey]

My understanding (which I've never tested on this matter, but experience supports the hypothesis) is that the forum software creates a thumbnail with a link to whatever you've uploaded to Warmoth's server(s). The thumbnails are always right, but all bets are off when it explodes the linked image. So, if somebody uploads a 3500x4800 picture that they used a digital zoom on to give it an effective resolution of 320x280, you get HUGE pile of pixellated kukka.

 

[Rickgrxbass]

All I know is, given the dithered mess of my own uploads, I'm going to have to find a more robust batch-resizing program than Microsoft Picture Viewer  :doh:

 

[Cagey]

I use The GIMP to twiddle my images, but there's no batching it that I'm aware of. I'm no expert, though. Still, it's a very powerful image manipulation program that many use in place of Photoshop, and it's free. There are versions for Linux, OS/X and Windows so everybody can use it, and it's free. Not shareware or trialware or anything like that - you get the full monty right up front.

I rarely have need for so many images that I need to batch any kind of processing on them, and I use a SSD for applications so load times are almost instantaneous, so processing one image at a time works out ok for me.

 

[DangerousR6]

If you use photobucket, you can resize them there. If-n your one of the photochop impaired.. :dontknow:

 

[Rickgrxbass]

For some reason I haven't loaded the GIMP on the Windows partition on my laptop yet; it comes preloaded on any Linux disto I've ever had, but my camera wasn't playing nice with Mint  :doh:  Makes me wish I'd have spent twice as much for a Macbook (No, literally, my fairly loaded Asus lappy was under $600, a MBP would've put me back over $1100)

Another good little image program if you don't need the horsepower of PS or the GIMP is Irfanview  (freeware, not GPL like the GIMP)

 

[Cagey]

I like Mint. That's my main OS distro. I don't have any trouble with my camera (Canon Powershot A570), but that doesn't mean anything. Not everything works the same. Canon certainly didn't provide drivers, so whatever they do must be common enough that it fit in with some existing code.

 

[rapfohl09]

My understanding (which I've never tested on this matter, but experience supports the hypothesis) is that the forum software creates a thumbnail with a link to whatever you've uploaded to Warmoth's server(s). The thumbnails are always right, but all bets are off when it explodes the linked image. So, if somebody uploads a 3500x4800 picture that they used a digital zoom on to give it an effective resolution of 320x280, you get HUGE pile of pixellated kukka.

+1 to this, if you don't use the attachments feature below where you write a post, its only matter what the image size was before hand.