A humble request.

[=[Ga]= AutoDMC]

Everyone loves posting pictures and screenshots. I love doing it as much as everyone else does.

But could we please resample pictures down? Not everyone has ultra-l33t monitors like you, and posting 2000 pixel wide pictures stretches out the board to incredible proportions.

It not only affects your post, but everyone else's on that page (even worse when you have the "number of posts per page" set really high!) gets stretched to 2000 pixels wide. Even on my 1440 pix wide monitor at home, I have to scroll back and forth just to see the text on the page above and below (and I rarely have my browsers maximized; usually I'm running them about 800 px wide).

If I really must post a wide screenshot, I'll link to it, off site, like this:

A page from Missing Number: Adventures in Glitch City, a webcomic by AutoDMC, Chris da Wolf, and Duke1701

or

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2317/2136036697_f7b5fb4949_o.png

But if I'm going to post it to the board, I always resample it down.

"How do I resample?" I hear from the back of the class. If you've got Photoshop or Gimp, there's usually something under the "Image" menu to resample, resize, etc. If you don't have image conversion software, use Irfanview:

http://www.irfanview.us/

It's free, and zippy.

Tutorial here:

http://www.somewhere-in-time.net/tutorial/irfanview/

(Don't download the program from the tutorial)

What's a good size for pictures on the board? After much trial and error, I've found 500px wide to work incredibly well:

Make sure when you resample that you "keep the aspect ratio" (there's usually a button or checkbox labeled "aspect ratio"). This will keep your pictures from squishing up.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate not having to scroll back and forth along epic 2000px wide text just because somebody wanted to post a screenshot or picture. Everyone can post narrow pictures (500px!) and/or link to the full versions off site, and everyone will be much happier.

Remember! Scroll wheels only go up and down! So don't stretch websites sideways!

Thank you for your time.

EDIT: Note, this applies to sig images too, but even moreso: as a sig appears on every post you ever write, a wide sig image stretches hundreds or thousands of threads

I don't know why some sig images trigger the auto-scroll-bars on sigs, and why some do not...

 

[xosniper]

ok, first off when I post my extra large pictures, I'm only sharing them in the greatest form possible...16,000x12,000. P) I will take your post into consideration next time and make them more crappy monitor friendly P)

 

[PurpleNurple]

Actually, the Image Resizer from the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows is the easiest thing EVER for picture resizing. Once you download it, you just right click on a pic and tell it what size you want it. You can even highlight an entire group of pics, right click on one and resize them all in one click of the mouse:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It's called image resizer towards the bottom of the right column.

So easy, even I can do it.

 

[Frank Booth]

Or post the thumbnails.

 

[xosniper]

There, Hows that Auto?

 

[Badfish]

Agreed about the resizing of pictures but i can't be to mad about it since just today i posted a screen shot that was massive. Thanks for those links i will use them next time

 

[gotrice]

Ohh John T told me that too about my spray so I had to get a new one