*** MAY COMPETITION THREAD ***

[doodah]

Mrs Fish said:

We tend to do them to 750 pixels wide as that what Ted changes them to for the forum

750@72dpi it is then!

[dcw@pr]

doodah said:

750@72dpi it is then!

why do you want the picture to be 10.42 inches wide?

[Mrs Fish]

So the page loads quickly, cuts down on those huge pictures that take forever to load

[_dobbo_]

This whole DPI thing comes up occasionally....

Basically DPI is meaningless when talking about display on a monitor and really only matters when you talk about printing.

a 750px wide limit will suffice - not least because then the forum image auto-resizer doesn't butcher your piccies!

[dcw@pr]

someone exceptionally intelligent said:

resolution is a very misunderstood subject indeed. To quote a pixel size (e.g. 600x400) in relation to a resolution (e.g. 72DPI) has absolutely no meaning when the image is being displayed on a computer screen. A 600x400 picture is EXACTLY the same whether it is 1 DPI or 1000 DPI - it is always 600x400 pixels. This is not the same if you are quoting the picture size in physical dimensions, i.e. inches/centimetres/whatever. For example, a 6"x4" print at 10 DPI is made from a 60x40 pixels photo, whereas the same print at 300 DPI is made from an 1800x1200 pixel image. Obviously the higher DPI image is a better quality in this instance. The difference is due to the fact that a pixel is not a set size, whereas an inch obviously is.

[V6GTO]

But doesn't an image of 750px wide @ 300dpi take 4 times as long to load as the same size shot @ 75dpi, purely because it has 4 times the information? Or am I being a thick builder again?

Martin.

[dcw@pr]

V6GTO said:

Or am I being a thick builder again? Martin.

'fraid so

[Bodo]

V6GTO said:

But doesn't an image of 750px wide @ 300dpi take 4 times as long to load as the same size shot @ 75dpi, purely because it has 4 times the information? Or am I being a thick builder again? Martin.

No, a picture that is, say, 750mm wide @300dpi takes for times longer to load. A pixel does not say how big a picture is, but how much information is stored in the picture. You can make both, a 75px and a 750px picture 100cm wide; the latter will have ten times more details.

[V6GTO]

[dcw@pr]

Bodo said:

You can make both, a 75px and a 750px picture 100cm wide; the latter will have ten times more details.

only if the picture is 1 pixel tall - if it's not then it will have 100 times more information

>> Edited by dcw@pr on Wednesday 3rd May 10:53

[up-the-dubs]

V6GTO said:

Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing!

Nope, she's a heathen . Guinness all the way baby .

[focused]

Look what the Can-did to this Monk







A couple of others....

[cy88]

Time to change the sticky on the comp threads, please, mods??

[Mrs Fish]

Ask and you shall receive

[V6GTO]

Well done, Lisa. I think you're allright despite what the others say.

Martin.

[up-the-dubs]

Mrs Fish said:

Ask and you shall receive

While you're about, the yearly comp vote one seems to have died off with CY88 walking away with it .

[Mrs Fish]

V6GTO said:

Well done, Lisa. I think you're allright despite what the others say. Martin.

[Mrs Fish]

[Mrs Fish]

Caption time


That's my boy

[staceyb]

Hey I lurk on here a lot love the photos and I have a photo I would like to enter but its on my phone and I cant get it off on to the computer, so any kind person that would like to put it on for me I would be most obliged.