Thread: Testing pen photo size

OK, they both look the same size on my screen. They are smaller than when I was previously uploading them at 1000 pixels, but still look OK for viewing, and better than the thumbnail size I changed to last night.

Both look the same, but these days the forums resize photos anyway. You should always try and keep your photos to 800 pixels wide on the longest dimension and around 300kb to minimise issues on some older computers

Thanks Neil.

I was sizing my photos at 1000 pixels on the long side, (This is the size encouraged on a photography forum that I am a member, I was just using the same files to upload here)

Looks like I will have to do 2 edits for each photo if I want to put them on both forums.

These photos in this thread look quite small on my 27" mac screen, I could fit about 12 of them on the screen to fill it ( the pen is about life-size ), where at 1000 pixels they were taking up about a quarter of the screen ( the pen was about 3X life-size and looked great)

It probably depends on the resolution the viewer has their screen set to. Some people have older computers that only support low numbers so everything looks big on the screen. I am only using a 19" screen with a resolution of 1440 x 900 and the photo sizes are perfect. They only take up about 1/2 of the screen.
Your wedding set photos on the other post take up about 3/4 of the screen. If using a lower resolution screen they would probably show up as too large, but they are perfect for me.

They are both excellent pics AND a good viewing size on my Mac

fletty

Looks fine to me, but I think the reflection of the pen in the glass sheet is a bit distracting!

Keep in mind that many, many people have no clue as to how to set a monitor up. I've seen them quite often with the wrong aspect ratio selected, or deliberately set to a lower screen resolution as a way to increase the font size. And I'd say maybe one in ten people know that you can adjust the colours on a monitor!

So don't overthink it - there is no perfect solution!

They look good on my 17" Windows 7 laptop.

I have found that the majority of photography forums that I have visited have 1024 x 768 pixels at 96dpi as thier standard. 96 dpi is the 'best' resolution for LCD and similar flat screens. On my laptop me screen resultion is set to 1600 x 900 (16 x9 is the standard ratio for widescreen TV). Most older CRT monitors used an aspect ratio of 800 x 600 (4:3) which gives a squarer image which frequently results in the top and/or bottom of the image being cut off - hence you have to scroll the image.

I had a look at the metadata for you last images and it is 800 X533 pixels. Taking 96 dpi = 100 pixels as an approximation, your image should and does display as 8" x 5 1/3" on my screen (800/100 pixels per inch x 533/100 pixels per inch). It was uploaded as 800 x 800 and resized by the browser for the display size of 800 x 533.

When resizing images to upload, you will be pretty much correct if you set the number of pixels equal to the height and width in inches (that you want your image displayed at) multiplied by 100. eg. to display at 10" x 8" the number of pixels would be 1000 x 800. and that will work for most modern LCD, plasma etc screens. For older CRT monitors the multiplier is 80 instead of 100 is generally used.

One way you will have an image that is "right" for one technology but will be either smaller or larger than the preferred size for the other technology. You can't please all of the people all of the time

From memory, the last figures I saw showed that close to 40% of internet users still use the 'old' CRT technology, 800 pixels on the horizontal and 600 pixels is fine for the old technology and still gives a 8" x 6" image on the newer flat screen which is generally adequate for the type of images we are displaying on the forum. And as Niel said, this as also the forum's preferred size.

Hope I haven't made the water any muddier

Bob

Both look great here, Amos

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Looks fine to me, but I think the reflection of the pen in the glass sheet is a bit distracting!

Keep in mind that many, many people have no clue as to how to set a monitor up. I've seen them quite often with the wrong aspect ratio selected, or deliberately set to a lower screen resolution as a way to increase the font size. And I'd say maybe one in ten people know that you can adjust the colours on a monitor!

So don't overthink it - there is no perfect solution!

Cheers MS.
I agree about the reflection being distracting. Just something I wanted to try, I may try to make it look better another day if I have some spare time.

Thanks Bob.
Your description is pretty accurate, and you are right, no need to muddy the water any further, I just want to post my photos in a way that everyone can look at them and enjoy them for what the are.
This little exercise has helped me, and if someone else gets something out of it, then all the better

Originally Posted by Oldgreybeard

They look good on my 17" Windows 7 laptop.

I have found that the majority of photography forums that I have visited have 1024 x 768 pixels at 96dpi as thier standard. 96 dpi is the 'best' resolution for LCD and similar flat screens. On my laptop me screen resultion is set to 1600 x 900 (16 x9 is the standard ratio for widescreen TV). Most older CRT monitors used an aspect ratio of 800 x 600 (4:3) which gives a squarer image which frequently results in the top and/or bottom of the image being cut off - hence you have to scroll the image.

I had a look at the metadata for you last images and it is 800 X533 pixels. Taking 96 dpi = 100 pixels as an approximation, your image should and does display as 8" x 5 1/3" on my screen (800/100 pixels per inch x 533/100 pixels per inch). It was uploaded as 800 x 800 and resized by the browser for the display size of 800 x 533.

When resizing images to upload, you will be pretty much correct if you set the number of pixels equal to the height and width in inches (that you want your image displayed at) multiplied by 100. eg. to display at 10" x 8" the number of pixels would be 1000 x 800. and that will work for most modern LCD, plasma etc screens. For older CRT monitors the multiplier is 80 instead of 100 is generally used.

One way you will have an image that is "right" for one technology but will be either smaller or larger than the preferred size for the other technology. You can't please all of the people all of the time

From memory, the last figures I saw showed that close to 40% of internet users still use the 'old' CRT technology, 800 pixels on the horizontal and 600 pixels is fine for the old technology and still gives a 8" x 6" image on the newer flat screen which is generally adequate for the type of images we are displaying on the forum. And as Niel said, this as also the forum's preferred size.

Hope I haven't made the water any muddier

Bob

all looks great to me brad. I had to scroll on my laptop to see the second photo but who cares it was worth the scroll. as for the reflection it gives it a different touch and looks quite good in my opinion. So keep them coming you have some great stuff there.


Cheers ian

Originally Posted by Dorno

all looks great to me brad. I had to scroll on my laptop to see the second photo but who cares it was worth the scroll. as for the reflection it gives it a different touch and looks quite good in my opinion. So keep them coming you have some great stuff there.


Cheers ian

Thanks Ian.
So are you saying the second photo is showing bigger on your screen?

Both pictures on my iMac are about 5" x 7" unless I scrunch the sides of the page in tight enough to touch them. They stay the same size even if the page is pulled completely open to the edges of the screen. Nice size for viewing. Are you resizing in a photo program or saving to the desktop and using the Preview to do it? I find it easier in Preview. The pens look good too.

Pete

Your 800px x 533px size works for me.
I resize mine 640px x 480px
A lot of sites automatically resize larger photo or will reject photos that are too large.



Les