PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING YOUR PICS...

[HankScorpio]

... about posting pics 750 wide?

There are a lot of good pictures ruined by the clunky resizing on here. (I understand why the resizing, that's not an issue.)
I know if I'm using firefox, I can do "view picture" but I don't always have access to that and other browsers aren't as friendly that way. Anyway, doing that spoils the flow of a thread and for the multi pic threads it's a PITA. (Also a PITA is viewing a resized image that's only 800 wide, presumably people posting are smart enough to work resize but why not do 750 for on here?)

So how about a sticky detailing this info and suggesting people post pics at 750 and if required, put a link to a higher res?

[Mrs Fish]

You heard what the man said

[PetrolTed]

To post a pic:

Use the [pic] and [/pic] tags to surround the URL of the picture.

If the picture is larger than 750pixels wide then script on PH will resize it to 750px to prevent horizontal scroll bars appearing.

Therefore, if your pic is bigger it's wise to also display the actual link below the picture so that people can easily view it in its original format too.

[Mrs Fish]

Thanks Ted

[simpo two]

And for portrait format I usually use 500 pixels wide otherwise they seem to take up too much forum space and it looks greedy!

How about instructions to resize and compress using PS, which seems the most common software amongst us?

[HankScorpio]

Thanks Ted!

[simpo two]

A well-deserved bump.

HankScorpio said:

So how about a sticky detailing this info and suggesting people post pics at 750 and if required, put a link to a higher res?

[superlightr]

Funky Nige kindly Said:

Try the XP Powertoys image resizer, it lets you specify how many pixels wide you want the picture to come out as -

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downlo


>> Edited by superlightr on Sunday 30th October 16:25

[PetrolTed]

I've altered the way the code works now.

Both [pic] and [img] tags will work. Also, clicking the picture will now open the original image in a full sized popup window.

[Mr Noble]

EXCELLENT NEWS TED. THANKS.

[beano500]

[pdV6]

Nice on Ted.

Just trying it out (on the October winner thread) and it seems a bit patchy, though.
Some images do nothing, some come up in a new window and some you get a "page not found" error.

[PetrolTed]

Could you email me an example of the text that isn't working please?

[PetrolTed]

Might just be the first post in a thread that screws up.

[pdV6]

What happens for me (on FireFox 1.0.7)

Thread: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=218687&f=109&h=0

Detail:

HankScorpio's Balloon (1st post on thread):
javascript:void(0)
- obvoiusly doesn't do much

Tall_Paul's postbox:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73
- works fine

Rustybin's children on stairs:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a37/
- works fine

cy88's Jag:
http://images15.fotki.com/v231/photos', '_popupImage', 'width=750,height=562,scrollbars=0,resizable=1,toolbar=0,personalbar=0,menubar=0,status=0'%20); windowHandle.focus();
- 404 Not found

imperialism2024 (using [ img ] tags):
no script generated
- clicking does nothing (well, duh!)

[Mr Noble]

The first post in V6GTO's thread below works and you can click on the image to get it to open in a new window.

Does this mean that we no longer need to resize all images to 750px?

If everyone does then you will see the same image in a new window if you click on it surely??

Prahaps its not working fully with the img yet. Seems to work ok with pic.

Greg

[PetrolTed]

Ah, I see what you mean.

It'll work with new pictures

[pdV6]

PetrolTed said:

It'll work with new pictures

[PetrolTed]

With new pictures you shouldn't need to resize as clicking the image will open the original in a new window.

[_dobbo_]

There's an argument for resizing anyway though, since it speeds things up a lot if you do.