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David K
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Yes, but it is also 1,024 pixels wide.
Is there a way that you can re-size or upload the image to 800 pixels other than Photobucket? That you can explain here for anyone to do?
Edit: BajaNomad to the rescue again... Photo re-sized.
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by David K]
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Super picture I say agan....
This is for that fly on your screen to see...
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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willyAirstream
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Your welcome bigzaggin!
David, did you mean me? All image editing software is similar. Since I forgot to bring my Adobe suite software, I'm using open source free software
and loving it. For photos and raster images ( bitmaps - jpg, png, tiff etc) I use Gimp
available for free here
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Basically you resize your image, then either save it or export it as a jpg and set the compression. For a simple image, like the fly, you can use a
highly compressed image ( like 20) and reduce the file size by about 80%. The girls pic example shows that a compression of 80 is almost as good as
the original, while the file size went from 755k to 60k. And below 80 the pic really breaks up. Always work with a copy of your original and remember
that an original image can only be compressed once as doing it more will drastically reduce the quality and weird things happen to the image. There
are tons of video tutorials available for Gimp and other open source software. If someone needs a step by step on the above, I'll be glad to do it.
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tripledigitken
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Lencho,
The issue of 800 pixel width was discussed recently. See Doug's post here.........
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=49359&pag...
Ken
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willyAirstream
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the content table cell is liquid at 82%, which is 839 px wide at 1024 resolution, so allowing for side bars, 800px wide pics works fine. The forum
format is not a fixed width. The tables are all coded as percentages of the users screen resolution. ( the header and footer are a fixed width)
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David K
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I used the 800 number because any image posted wider than that distorts the entire thread for folks with standard monitors...
Yes, Doug would like it even smaller... but, if we can't help the few Nomads who repeatedly post images of over 1,000 pixels wide to get down to AT
LEAST 800... How are we going to get them to go to where you want? 
I am just trying to make it easy... and Photobucket has been the easiest I have tried, so far... I am open to try others.
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I have posted my photos for 4 years, hundreds of them, all at 800 pixels in width with nary a complaint.
What's the issue if Doug himself said 800 width is acceptable?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lencho
Doug, have you considered widening the forum template? |
I have - but there's a "catch 22" - by widening the template to allow for higher resolution photos to not "break" the width, it makes it a wider
"column" for the text (as a default) also. The wider column is not as "user friendly" to read (well, unless I enlarge the text/font size I imagine).
The newer XMB software releases have thumbnails for attachments - but I have not yet determined how much I can alter the size of the thumbnail images
(if at all).
Also - an fyi for the thread - one can use "advanced" [ img ] tag settings to resize an image. I think bigzaggin's images were 1024x567 - and I
resized them to 800x450 (proportional WxH) just by using [ img=800x450 ].
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by BajaNomad]
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willyAirstream
Are those the actually size of flies in Baja?
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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mcfez
I was expecting comments about the girls , No, the flies are from Sacramento .
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willyAirstream
mcfez
I was expecting comments about the girls , No, the flies are from Sacramento .
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Well, they are lovely young ladies! I might disagree however about the original compression being almost as good---may be acceptable, but the quality
is quite compromised, I think.
But they are still lovely in the more reduced photo even though the photo now looks awful! 
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Regarding formatting, my camera shoots in 16x9 native. If I resize to 800 x 450, will that compromise aspect ratio?
And as for your picture Willy, I thought it was a trap and any comment on the girls would be met with a swift "One more word about my daughters and
someone dies."
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Here's a test using "shrinkdown" BB code...
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by bigzaggin]
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by bigzaggin]
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by bigzaggin]
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took me a few tries - I guess the [800 x 450] only goes at the head of the post. For some reason, image looks less than spectacular now. Might try
doing the compression on my own.
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David K
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That's a beautiful photo... on a message board... For premium photo viewing, a link to your photo web site would be best... have it at max. resolution
there.
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David K
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Larry, wouldn't you agree that using a message board for anything more than casual viewing of photos is asking a lot? Wouldn't a link to a photo
hosting site be a better way to show your photos IF you wanted people to see them at their best?
A 800 or less pixel image on Nomad followed by a link to the photo site where it is at it's maximum size would be a way for a photographer to best
display his 'art' online, yes?
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