Embedding large images

Anonymous

Is it just me that finds maving massive images embedded in the forum are a pain in the bum? not only do they not fit, and require scrollbars, it also makes the page take that bit longer to load.

If others agree, can we make some kind of forum rule where only thumbnails are to be embedded in forum posts, and that if a picture is large enough to require scrollbars, then it should be linked to instead?

supersonic

Is it not browser dependant too?

I use IE, and anything above 600x450 gets the scroll bars.

MacAndCheese

I resize most of mine to max width of 450px, they seem to fit quite well.

Anonymous

IE here as well. I'll just check the others.

Anonymous

nope, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera also get the scrollbars.
Actually, Opera is really odd - it adds a horizontal scrollbar to any image, whether it fits or not.
But, who cares about Opera, the money grabbing, moany muppets :roll:

blister pus

Doesn't bother me tbh, If a pic needs to be a large size to show detail (for example) to someone then you can and you use the scrollers. 8/10 I don't bother I get the gist and bypass the pic, so it doesn't phase me.

And judging by people's efforts I'd say you might as well ask them to speak Chinese than to ask them to embed thumbnails.

supersonic

Lol. Is 600x450 about right then before scroll bars?

Anonymous

well, linking to a picture is easy enough.

supersonic

supersonic

No bars there for me.

supersonic

640x480

supersonic

And scroll bars.

I put forward a motion to limit images to 600x450!

blister pus

Still means you have to set your hosting account up correctly from default usually. Which I would say is a step too far. People grasp >> upload >> copy / paste url into post it's least line of resistance no RTFMing and just works. I use photobucket and find their options setup dialogue a ball-ache.

supersonic

I'm photobucket too. Bloody slow at times!

Though I will make an effort to resize before upload to that res - I used to resize to 640x480, so no biggie for me personally.

MacAndCheese

I'm photobucket too, which is fine from my Mac or PC, but I can't resize from my iphone as the resize software is Flash.
I mostly use my phone as it's easy for snapping stuff quickly without having to fanny about turing the computer on so I have to admit I do, on the odd occasion, have images that are a bit big.

Anonymous

No need to resize, just suggest that anything over 640x450 is linked to, not embedded.
I mean, sticking it inside [ url ] tags instead of [ img ]

blister pus

Slow? try using their bulk image uploader. It's up there with some of the worst java implementation I've seen.

I always resize to 600 for this forum but then I always use Irfanview image viewer in Windows. But I have done larger to get detail across on here tho.

Kiblams

I find the images the most annoying thing about this forum (yes, even more than the 'patrons' :P )

Use a basic PHP script I have written to allow uploads/deleting without having to go into my FTP. I have been considering running a service to host images since I have had to script a password protect to the upload/delete page as someone had gone and deleted all of my images/files last week :evil:

I use my own hosting to upload my images and use MS Paint to rezise them to fit on with little/no horizontal scroll bars.

Interestingly, if you e-mail the image to hotmail, the preview that they show you within the e-mail is just the right size for this forum and can be easily saved (right-click) instead of downloading the attachment.

MacAndCheese

So, as a rule, 600px or less, and if you can't resize put a link??

supersonic

It is a proposition. Will have to run it by the other admins.

Seems a good guideline anyway.

blister pus

I've been in a few tech related forums where the female contingent won't put direct links to images from their hosting accounts because they didn't want to unnecessarily advertise any information in plain view.

It works as it is - unless you're on dial up of course.

Anonymous

Oh, and did anybody here knwo that if you have a hotmail account, then it means you also have a photo sharing account already.
What's more, you can upload images (and resize whilst doing so) to it DIRECTLY from within windows photo gallery.

neat.

Anonymous

blister pus wrote:

I've been in a few tech related forums where the female contingent won't put direct links to images from their hosting accounts because they didn't want to unnecessarily advertise any information in plain view.

It works as it is - unless you're on dial up of course.

well, whether you post the image, or the link, it's usually pretty trivial to see other (allowed) images on the same account.

MacAndCheese

I have always wondered what someone would think if they logged onto my photobucket account, just lots of random bike pics - particularly for the photo challenge on this forum! And a random picture of raw steak I added yesterday. but I understand if you have more personal pics you may not want to share.

blister pus

I can give you a few examples where a female forum member has posted a mug shot of themselves on an innocuous forum member pic thread and used their "family photobucket" album to host images. I can think of 2 women in particular who used their real names to sign up to the host (family name) and the information is displayed in the URL and each one was subsequently targeted by a watching (male) public trawling the web for more information - which was available it turned out.

Just be mindful is all I'm saying.

Anonymous

blister pus wrote:

I can give you a few examples where a female forum member has posted a mug shot of themselves on an innocuous forum member pic thread and used their "family photobucket" album to host images. I can think of 2 women in particular who used their real names to sign up to the host (family name) and the information is displayed in the URL and each one was subsequently targeted by a watching (male) public trawling the web for more information - which was available it turned out.

Just be mindful is all I'm saying.

But that could happen whether you're posting images, or posting links to images.

stubs

Ok how do I do a linkable thumbnail from flickr

got the thumbnail size up on flickr copied and pasted the URL between img tags and all I get is a tiny picture.

blister pus

yeehaamcgee wrote:

blister pus wrote:

I can give you a few examples where a female forum member has posted a mug shot of themselves on an innocuous forum member pic thread and used their "family photobucket" album to host images. I can think of 2 women in particular who used their real names to sign up to the host (family name) and the information is displayed in the URL and each one was subsequently targeted by a watching (male) public trawling the web for more information - which was available it turned out.

Just be mindful is all I'm saying.

But that could happen whether you're posting images, or posting links to images.

As things are now you have to go through the reply procedure to someone who has inserted a link to an image to see that url. Nothing is displayed apart from the image on face value.

Daz555

Those who find that the page load slowly with images embedded should look into getting an additional hamster for their broadband wheel.

Anonymous

blister pus wrote:

As things are now you have to go through the reply procedure to someone who has inserted a link to an image to see that url. Nothing is displayed apart from the image on face value.

Right click image, choose "properties".
I thought you were meant to be good at things like this

blister pus

That all depends if that's been disabled in the account though, admittedly people don't usually bother / forget / don't rtfm / can't be arsed.