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Re: Picture size
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:06:26 GMT
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> writes:

> In lugnet.publish, Frank Filz writes:
> > > What do you think is a good balace between file size (speed) and largest
> > > display (detail) of a jpeg photo on a website?
> > 
> > A picture much larger than 800x600 is also generally wasted because few
> > people run at higher than 1024x768 resolution. A 1024x768 picture is
> > acceptable if the detail warrants it. Much larger and you're down to a
> > tiny handful who will not have to scroll to see your image.
> 
> Agree, agree, agree, and agree. Just thought I'd put in that the only other
> concievable reason I could think of for pictures in excess of 800x600 would
> be for printing/photoediting purposes. But since that only occurrs once in a
> blue moon (IE usually your target audience for something like this is one or
> two people), I'd advise against doing it...

Anything in excess of 640x480 is too big for most users.  Screen size
is not the only issue - consider also bandwidth.  The file size grows
exponentially as an image grows. (Twice the width = 4 times the size,
3x width = 9x size, etc.)

Thumbnails should link to something no bigger than 640x480.  If you
want to have a larger version available, have the 640x480 link to
that.

All is IMNSHO... :-)

--Bill.

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  Re: Picture size
 
(...) Agree, agree, agree, and agree. Just thought I'd put in that the only other concievable reason I could think of for pictures in excess of 800x600 would be for printing/photoediting purposes. But since that only occurrs once in a blue moon (IE (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.publish)

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