What picture size works best for you?
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Topic: What picture size works best for you?
Posted By: Mike Savage
Subject: What picture size works best for you?
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 8:56pm
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What size pictures work the best for you? Most of my photographs are much larger than what I post here. With the popularity of wide screen displays and lower cost monitors I was wondering what worked best for people when viewing the message board.
Thanks for the help.
Mike -------------  |
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 9:02pm
The image below is 800 pixels wide.
 The image below is 900 pixels wide.
The image below is 1000 pixels wide.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: bbeck4x4
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 9:06pm
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900 pixels wide fits the laptop monitor, nice photo btw.
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Posted By: john hill
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 9:14pm
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they all look good to me ------------- out with the large and in with the nano |
Posted By: TriggerHappy
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 9:26pm
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1k looks good to me!
------------- 210 gallon Mixed Reef |
Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 10:22pm
Beautiful picture Mike, no matter what size. I like the 1k pixels myself.------------- 335G Reef TOTM. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/2/aquarium ReefKeepers TOTM Feb. 2012 http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month & |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 10:42pm
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Thanks! They all work on my laptop too but it is a newer wide screen.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 10:49pm
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All of my pics that I send to photobucket are automatically resized to 1024x768 pixels to fit a 17 inch screen.  ------------- 335G Reef TOTM. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/2/aquarium ReefKeepers TOTM Feb. 2012 http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month & |
Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 11:24pm
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For imbedded pictures in posts I think anything over 800 px wide is too big. I have fairly large screens, but I seldom if ever have Explorer maximized on the screen. It's usually just a window, among many, on the screen. 800 px fits my windows nicely.
------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 11:25pm
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I voted 900 because larger than that I get the sliders that you have to scroll up / down or sideways to see the whole photo ------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 2:56am
That is exactly my point. I don't like to get the sliders and have to scroll left and right.
Thanks for the input everyone. I hope to get more input before I talk to Jonathan about modifying his picture uploading utility.
Mike ------------- |
carlso63 wrote:Posted By: Debbles
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 9:18am
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I have a 15" screen and the 900 works great. The 1000 has the slidey thingys.
Deb
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Posted By: superman1981
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 10:32am
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I like 800... I scale all of mine at 650 though, usually I can get higher resolution if their smaller... ------------- Sure you are, you are Crappy Reef Club Member #1 -Chk4tix 6 gal nanocube 65 gal http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=78639&title=tims-65-gallon-build" rel="nofollow - build thread |
Posted By: jonafriendj
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 4:57pm
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Wow those are all beautiful pictures! It blows my mind how you can get a picture of something larger than life and still have it look good! ------------- Pleasant Grove |
Posted By: ReefBones
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 5:01pm
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Hay Brad .. I hope you don't mind .. I just set that picture as my background! ..
Awesome pic!!!!
Mike I was going to set yours but there was too much red .. lol .. but awesome as always!!! When can you come over and get pics of my tank???
EDIT:
O BTW .. I voted 900 .. looks great on my laptop! ------------- 140 gallon Reef 65 gallon Reef 55 gallon Aggressive www.thesalttank.com 801-865-6074 "encourage other divers and sea enthusiasts to take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but bubbles" |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: December 12 2008 at 5:18pm
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It doesn't much matter to me. I just scroll over if I need to.
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 13 2008 at 1:22pm
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Steve,
If you are seeing red in that picture then maybe your monitor needs to be calibrated. There is orange or orangish brown but no red on my monitor.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: mr_tongate
Date Posted: December 13 2008 at 1:23pm
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i have a nicer labtop and i dont get a slider l/r on any of them all sizes look good on my end... but i voted 900 cuz if fills the thread nicely
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: December 13 2008 at 1:33pm
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800
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Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: December 13 2008 at 2:33pm
That's fine with me. Thats what I always do. ------------- 335G Reef TOTM. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/2/aquarium ReefKeepers TOTM Feb. 2012 http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month & |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 12:54am
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My PC screen is huge and any would fit, but the 900 fills the laptop screen, any larger and I get scrollers. |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 7:25am
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I don't care for the scrollers either. For one the width of the picture dictates the length of the word wrap in the window and it is tough to read the text.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Hobby
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 2:57pm
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I know this is an old post.... I love evrything about this site except the scolling of the pictures within the posts. For me the photos are very valuable! You can learn alot just from a photo. If it was possible to reduce the photo size and remove the scolling feature? This would be awesome in my opinion. For example when you are looking at the aquaruim of the month, you have to scroll to see the whole photo. I think it would be awesome to be able to see the whole shot in one clean sweep. ------------- 210 gal Arowana tank 150 gal Gibberosa Moba tank 120 gal New World tank 90 gal Geo, Severum, Loach, Gar tank 90 gal Reef tank 65 gal Reef tank 95 gal Frag tank and too many more |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 5:18pm
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From the poll we decided 900 pixels in the longest direction was a good suggested size. 22 people voted for 900 pixels and larger where as 13 voted for smaller than 900 pixels. Not everybody adheres to this but I think most people do. I hope this can work for you.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Hobby
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 5:53pm
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It works for me. Will we still need to scroll to view an entire picture if we adhere to the 900 pixel size? ------------- 210 gal Arowana tank 150 gal Gibberosa Moba tank 120 gal New World tank 90 gal Geo, Severum, Loach, Gar tank 90 gal Reef tank 65 gal Reef tank 95 gal Frag tank and too many more |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 6:08pm
It just depends on your monitor size and resolution. This picture is 900 X 900 pixels.
 Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Hobby
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 6:29pm
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I have a 42" monitor and I still have to scroll. Beautiful picture by the way! ------------- 210 gal Arowana tank 150 gal Gibberosa Moba tank 120 gal New World tank 90 gal Geo, Severum, Loach, Gar tank 90 gal Reef tank 65 gal Reef tank 95 gal Frag tank and too many more |
Posted By: Eventine
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 6:34pm
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Your resolution probabbly needs changed. ------------- CrimsRayne's offical water mule West Jordan |
Posted By: Hobby
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 6:43pm
Yea but then I can't see the wording. I can live with it.  ------------- 210 gal Arowana tank 150 gal Gibberosa Moba tank 120 gal New World tank 90 gal Geo, Severum, Loach, Gar tank 90 gal Reef tank 65 gal Reef tank 95 gal Frag tank and too many more |
Posted By: CrimsRayne
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 6:45pm
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Wow way to bring back this post... I must have missed it the first time around.
I like 800 if the pic "needs" to be big. Full tank shots for example. But an 800x800 pic of a zoo polyp for sale is going to mean nothing to me almost makes me not want to buy it, as I know it won't look like that to the naked eye. If it interests me though, I size it down to actual polyp size to see if I still like it. Though they sure do look nice up close.
Ive been curious what mine would look like zoomed in that far. If the guy we know with the awesome photo skills can make it over this weekend, I should have nice close-ups of my zoos soon after. ------------- "What we know from this hobby is too hard to share with the people who just want to look and not get wet." -Rioreefer "The Puffer Girl" Zoo freak :) West Jordan |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 10:52pm
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Sorry Eva. I just saw this post. I should have brought my camera last night!
Mike ------------- |