Image Test Thread

[serfty]

 

[Milboo]

Yay - it's working!

 

[Mattg]

Seems to be working now for me

 

[Bundy Bear]

Testing this could make trip reports easy.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Nice puppy, will have to go and visit them.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I do like the thumbnail option.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Which threads or forums can photos be added to threads?

 

[moa999]

All of them

 

[Ric]

TESTING..462KB

 

[Ric]

at 4 MB

 

[Ric]

at 4.8 MB

 

[Ric]

at 1.64 MB

 

[Ric]

Wow! Easy to load images. Not seeing much difference between 462 KB against the others higher MB pics.

 

[moa999]

Not seeing much difference between 462 KB against the others higher MB pics.

Because they've all been compressed on the fly to about the same quality.

In fact the 472kb one isn't compressed (as under 1200x100) and retains its EXIF data.
The others are 133, 279 and 52kb respectively (the last one lowest probably as its mostly grey)

 

[RooFlyer]

Hey moa999 you seem to have a good handle on all this. In my Trip Reports, I have usually embedded two full res pics (each 4-7MB) into MS Word, side by side, then taken a 'snipping tool' image of the pair (images usually 300-500kb). I did this to get more images per post (5 pairs) and they turn out in nice landscape format but I seemed to lose a lot of resolution. Of course the old TRs have all been thumbnailed but you can get the idea here.

Now we can get 10 images per post, I'm tempted to go full size, but the really big pics such as above I think interrupts the narrative with too much scrolling. I'd be grateful for any suggestions from anyone on how to direct embed two pics side by side into a post but have them appear at best resolution (ie is it a pixel W x H definition)? I'd go ahead and use this dedicated thread to experiment, but although I can measure px in the images, I can't measure file size.

My camera takes images 5184 x 3888 px and are usually 5-7MB. In general, will they appear with better resolution in the post if I post at 4MB and max pixels, and let the forum software reduce them, or if I de-resolve to 1200x900px ~400kb and then post?

With some basic instructions, I'll start experimenting.

 

[moa999]

I'm tempted to go full size, but the really big pics such as above I think interrupts the narrative with too much scrolling.

That's why there is he thumbnail option which creates the smaller 250 width pictures, and then you click on them to get a lightbox - click on BundyBear's 2nd and 3rd photos above

Given you are already compressing (as you have a high res camera) I'd be inclined to compress down to 1200 width so it's only done once -- also means it's much quicker to upload and you aren't using quota (if on a capped plan)

While no longer supported by Google I find Picasa for Windows excellent at organising and quickly exporting photos (with a watermark if you want)

 

[samh004]

That's why there is he thumbnail option which creates the smaller 250 width pictures, and then you click on them to get a lightbox.

Indeed. There's always the possibility that we could have a discussion on bigger thumbnails, however I think the current 250 maximum works well, especially on mobiles. When clicking them, a Lightbox opens, and it only shows the attachments in that post, not any other posts on the page, so you don't end up skipping ahead. The only thing I don't think it can handle is adding a title to each picture, although most are self explanatory.

 

[moa999]

but the really big pics such as above I think interrupts the narrative with too much scrolling. I'd be grateful for any suggestions from anyone on how to direct embed two pics side by side into a post but have them appear at best resolution

And for a real world example, see these photos that I just uploaded to a KL thread - these were all pre-compressed to 800 width, and uploaded as thumbnails.. I think it works quite well for a Trip report style (with more text)
Kuala Lumpur - first timer tips and advice

 

[RooFlyer]

That's why there is he thumbnail option which creates the smaller 250 width pictures, and then you click on them to get a lightbox - click on BundyBear's 2nd and 3rd photos above

Indeed. There's always the possibility that we could have a discussion on bigger thumbnails, however I think the current 250 maximum works well, especially on mobiles.

Not a fan of the thumbnails for TRs - a bit small (as opposed to full size which are too large - in my view) and again, opening them interrupts the flow of reading a descriptive post.

OK, I'll do a bit of experimenting here; I guess that what's the thread is for. Although I run Lightroom its a bit complicated for quick editing of images for AFF; I have access to Paint so will use that.

 

[RooFlyer]

My traditional way: Pair 2127 x 794 px 185 kb



4666 x 3500 px and 3.7MB



Preset 1200 x 900 and 321kb




Thumbnail of the full sized pic



Thumbnail of the reduced pic