Whenever a picture is posted in the body of a post, the right side gets cut off. The picture appears as a square. If I control-click (Mac) and View Image, I can see the un-clipped picture. Anyone else have this problem?
-
April 27, 2008 6:09 p.m. Apis Mellifera
-
April 27, 2008 6:51 p.m. André Rousseau
Yes.
A.
-
April 27, 2008 8:59 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor
Yup, it chops off over-sized images. To be kind to both people on smaller monitors and slower connections, the image really shouldn't be that big.
And, you gotta deal with the oversized images somehow. Personally, I prefer chopping them to smooshing them or blowing up the whole layout and having a horizontal scroll bar.
-
April 27, 2008 9:13 p.m. André Rousseau
Sigh, small monitors & slow connections.
I work in HD Video all day on 2 30" Apple DIsplays.
Your cropping of my awesome car content is offensive.
:)
-
April 27, 2008 9:26 p.m. Apis Mellifera
Here is a screen cap: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/fall_down_dead/Picture1.png
What about all that wasted real estate on the left and right of the picture?
I would rather see the picture as intended rather than an edited version. George Lucas proved that most people like the original image. The vertical aspect is reduced anyway, so why not either alter the html to show the whole picture, just fit to the width, or make the image clickable to the original?
In that screen cap, what if that guy had an awesome wing on the back? We'd never know.
-
April 27, 2008 10:55 p.m. Bret
Now who in their right mind would put a wing on a 67 Barracuda? ;)
But seriously Apis has a point. Me? I’m guessing this is a Mac issue because I don't have a problem viewing this image in the origenal thread or any other images. So is there anything that can be done so everyone can see these images or do we need to modify (make smaller) our posted images?
-
April 28, 2008 7:37 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor
It's not an issue, it's intentional.
Personally, I would never post an image on any web site that was more than 600 pixels wide. Maybe 800 on the outside. I'd rather see the full image, too.
I COULD resize the image by a percentage, but I'd be resizing ALL images by that percentage, which presents two problems. 1) it's REALLY going to annoy the guy who posts a pic that's only 200 pixels wide to begin with. 2) It's still not going accomodate people that get it into their crazy head to post a pic straight from their 10 megapixel cameral. We all have different ideas of what is the "right" size.
Remember, I have no idea about the size or shape (or anything else) of the images people are going to post, so I have to make an educated guess that will hopefully accomodate pretty much anything. For ones that are too large, I have to either crop it or blow up the layout. I choose cropping it.
Now, all that said, you CAN make the image clickable (if you have a thumbnail version) using the basic HTML the board allows:
<a href="url-of-full-size-image"><img src="small-version" /></a>
-
April 28, 2008 8:05 a.m. André Rousseau
Classic car guys complaining about limited online photos.
Awesome hehehe
-
April 28, 2008 3:09 p.m. Bret
Tim, I'm confused the pic above is one I posted in the "One that got away" thread.
Again I can see the posted picture just fine, but I didn't think it was that big of an image (65kb in fact) and is url linked to my own website.
Could it be the broser being used? I noticed that Apis is using Firfox while I'm useing good ol' MS Explorer.
Still I'll try to be a little more careful in posting/linking pictures from here on.
-
April 28, 2008 3:23 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor
Bret, your filesize wasn't bad at all, I think the 850 pixels wide may have just been a bit much. I'll look into this more.
-
April 28, 2008 4:17 p.m. Apis Mellifera
I think it's the forum software.
On my browsers (Firefox on Mac at home and IBM Craptop at work), if I go to this link:
http://www.brothersofrockvale.com/images/5_26_05%20Update/1961%20MGA.jpg (copy paste link)
I get a scaled picture. If I point to the picture, the cursor turns to a magnifying glass. If I click on it, it shows the 100% image, which requires scrolling. It does this automatically and requires no thumbnails.
It's the same thing with my Photobucket accounts.
When you post a picture on Blogger, it automatically scales the image and makes it clickable to 100%.
BTW, my Powerbook only has a 15 screen and the scaled and cropped images on this forum still only take up half my screen. Maybe I'm being the usual curmudgeon, but I'd rather see all of a smaller image than half a big image.
-
April 28, 2008 4:30 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor
One big difference (off the top of my head).. When you upload a picture to photobucket, it knows how big the picture is, or was, as the case may be.
