Photos (Small, Big, Blurry)

[+Larry]

Some recent photos in posts prompts this "soap box." It is a request for "picture correctness."

 

Some folks post pics that are essentially little more than thumbnails. Click on them, and they are little if any larger. Don't want folks to see what you are posting?

 

At the other extreme some post pics that are huge. They use that new zillion mega-pixel camera and slap it on their post. If you want to see what is there, you have to scroll around the screen. Add to this, some folks apparently "blow up" smaller pics until they are huge and blurry. (Why on earth would someone do that?)

 

Would there be reasons for posting a very large picture? Of course, but most that show up in posts here don't seem to fit in the need of large, detailed photos. How about the converse -- teeny, tiny pics? Maybe, but rarely. There will always be exceptions that don't fit the norms. If the shoe doesn't fit...

 

Fortunately there are powertoys/apps that can ***EASILY*** increase and decrease picture size.

 

Typically...

 

1) Right click on the pic.

2) Click "Resize Pictures"

3) Pop-up box allows you to select size. Small, Medium, Large that are around 640 X 480, 800 X 600, 1024 X 768, and Advanced Options.

 

If you are perhaps interested in one of these, here's a link to a regular Google search:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+postage+stamps&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=picture+resizer+windows

 

I use the ones from Microsoft for XP and Win7. Haven't looked for Win8/10. Dunno about Macs, but I'm sure there are free apps for it too.

 

-Larry

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rybags]

Some take so long to load I just quit the viewing.

 

Fairly sure too this forum will load all of the pics in a post if they were uploaded just by selecting one.

So in theory, 4 pictures could easily come to 10 Meg if they're big.

 

Another easy way to resize is just use MS Paint. Ctrl-A to select all, then use the stretch tool, give it a percentage. Then resize the canvas in Image Attributes.

[Mathy]

Hallo Larry

 

Dunno about Macs, but I'm sure there are free apps for it too.

 

I personally prefer an App called "SmallImage", but the easiest way (if you don't mind that the original picture is overwritten) to use "Preview" and then "Extra's". No sure how the option is called in English, but it's probably something like "Resize". All Macs come with "Preview" pre-installed.

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

[+mytek]

Hallo Larry

 

 

I personally prefer an App called "SmallImage", but the easiest way (if you don't mind that the original picture is overwritten) to use "Preview" and then "Extra's". No sure how the option is called in English, but it's probably something like "Resize". All Macs come with "Preview" pre-installed.

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

For most images, I think 1024x768 is a good compromise. It gives you a large enough image to allow a lot of detail to be seen, while still not requiring scrolling to see the image (at least on most modern systems, and even most tablets). Posting really high resolution (large) images only makes sense for something like a complete motherboard, and only in certain cases. Below are two examples, with the 2nd being at a higher resolution, but still view-able without any horizontal scrolling on an HDTV. They are both very legible, and certainly the larger one is very easy to pick out detail.

 

1024x768 example...

 

1527x1080 example...

 

 

And here is an extremely easy to use free on-line image resizer: webresizer.com/resizer/

 

- Michael

Edited March 14, 2016 by mytekcontrols

[Fox-1 / mnx]

Cropping would be a nice start. There's really no need to show half your house if you want to pin-point the "Ready" text that's on your screen.

[+mytek]

I think a big part of the problem is that people don't know how to reduce the size of those photos taken with a digital camera before posting. I had several friends that would simply take the raw image captured by their cameras and attach it to an email. they felt good that they had learned how to do this, but on my end it required that I first save the image and then open it up in a separate photo viewer to be able to see the entire image without excessive scrolling around. Needless to say I showed them how they could reduce the photos before sending them in an email. Now days it has gotten easier, because a lot of people use their phones to also take pictures, and have the option to send them at a reduced size within the same email app, and of course Facebook and many other social media sites also do an automatic reduction as well as many browsers. Speaking of viewing in a browser, most of the time my browser will reduce the resolution automatically to fit the whole picture within whatever size the browser window is set to, providing a magnifying glass icon with a (+) sign inside if you want to revert to full size. Why doesn't that happen in this forum? Has this been intentionally defeated somehow? If this could be made to work properly, our problem is solved.

 

- Michael

Edited March 14, 2016 by mytekcontrols