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Thread: Gallery-- UPDATE! | Forum: Community Center
I can live with the fact that thumbnails have now been changed to 300 pixels wide. Like Tara, some of us create our own thumbnails rather than allowing the site's upload algorithms to automatically create them. But it would have been nice to have been given warning of the changes beforehand.
I have to wonder to myself if the programmers are aware of the basics of photography and image resizing.
If I do a print screen of the photography gallery and then crop one of the thumbnails, it works out to approximately 432 pixels wide. That is nearly half again larger than the required thumbnail size of 300 pixels wide. The previous 500 pixel wide thumbnail was perfect, imho.
If I do a print screen of the image of any photograph posted in the photography gallery, after clicking the thumbnail and WITHOUT clicking to zoom in on an image, the print screen crop works out to approximately 1312 pixels wide. If people are not aware of this, smaller image uploads created to be smaller than that size are automatically stretched to that 1312 pixel wide size. If a person clicks on that image again to view in zoom, then the image is stretched again to be seen nearly all the way across the computer screen.
This merely stretches the existing pixels across a larger plane and causes image degradation. One of the first things that photographers learn is that one can resize an image down, but never resize a smaller image up because the software or viewer extrapolates the existing pixels across a larger area. Stretching, for example, a 1000 pixel wide image to the approximate 1312 pixel wide image we see when viewing images in the gallery will never be as clear and sharp as the originally created image. After figuring this out, I came to the realization that I would need to change all my normally created 1200 p. images to be larger than 1300 pixels wide, and if I want the image to look halfway decent when zoomed, I would have to create the images to be much larger than that, perhaps 1700 or 1800 pixels. wide.
It would have been a conscientious and polite effort on the part of the forum and moderators to inform people of these facts when changing the site's layout back in August or when these newer 'tweaks' to the site's functionality were made. Thankfully, because of the greatly increased image size allowances (and we do appreciate this change!), we can increase the size of the images we create so that they will look better when zoomed. But when images are automatically resized up from 300 to 432 pixels, we have no control over the loss of image quality we strived to create in the first place. It doesn't make that much difference on a very small thumbnail, but it does make a difference on a 'regular' or zoomed image.
It's just the principle of the matter that we work very hard to learn how to take photographs at the best quality we are capable of, yet the quality of the images posted show definite lack of quality because of factors we cannot control. Like RodS said, we care about this site - I've been posting here since 2002 - it's been my home away from home for 13 years. It's the only place I post my photos online and I have made many friends over these many years. I still love this site, and am saddened that so many talented folks have decided to find other outlets for their images, because of changes they disliked. That's my two cents on the recent changes.
Thread: Thumbnails and Avatars | Forum: Community Center
Thank you very kindly, Tara. I had to go to Firefox and clear my browser history and cache. Didn't think about that.... worked a treat. Appreciate it!
Thread: Thumbnails and Avatars | Forum: Community Center
I tried to update my avatar. Found the original image, cropped to 200x200 and uploaded in the edit profile section. The message at the top of the page said something like "Success... your profile had been updated". But... where the profile picture is at the top of the page... next to the word "Browse" it says "No File Selected". And I see the original small avatar as a small square inside the avatar circle. Is there a file size limit preventing this from working? Any hints as to what I've done wrong??
Thread: Updates Thread | Forum: Community Center
I haven't received a single ebot either - only emails about Renderosity's Marketplace which I have no need for.
The only place that I see avatars is here in the forum. I see no avatars on any of the gallery pages or beside any of the image comments.
The gallery page is still very slow to load for me on Firefox and waiting for the scrolling gallery page is even slower.
Thread: Gallery Images | Forum: Community Center
Just for reference for the mods to read, I am also unable to upload images [on Firefox] and both preview attempts and upload attempts send me to a blank white page.
No error messages to tell me what I have done wrong, or which of the two images don't comply to site requirements, just a blank white page.
I have always made my images and thumbnails, 1200 x 800 and 300 x 200. I don't mind making thumbnails and assumed my images were small enough to comply with requirements.
For now, I will be patient until the IT folks have time to work through all the problems. Thank you.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #29 | Forum: Photography
Many thanks to the staff for choosing one of my images. Congratulations to everyone. I'm honored to be among all the other photographers here.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #28 | Forum: Photography
Thank you very kindly for choosing one of my images. I am honored and congrats to all the others chosen.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #26 | Forum: Photography
My sincere thanks to the Photography Staff! I'm honored to be included and congratulations to all the others chosen.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #23 | Forum: Photography
Many thanks to the staff for including one of my images! Always an honor! Congrats to everyone chosen!
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #20 | Forum: Photography
What an honor to be chosen alongside so many talented artists and images this week! Thank you to the Staff!
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #16 | Forum: Photography
Many thanks for choosing one of my images for this week's gallery! It's always a great honor. Congrats to all the others chosen!
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #13 | Forum: Photography
Many thanks to the Renderosity staff for including my image in this week's gallery.
Beautiful images, all, and I'm honored to be among them. Congrats to everyone.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #43 | Forum: Photography
Many thanks to the staff for choosing one of my images! Always such an honor to be included among so many talented photographers! Congrats to all those chosen.
Thread: Last Week in the Gallery #39 | Forum: Photography
My thanks to the photography staff! I'm honored that one of my images is chosen alongside so many great pics this week! Congratulations to everyone chosen!
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Thread: Last Week in the Gallery 4/3/16 - 4/10/16 | Forum: Photography