Bruce R Leech
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dose this bother anyone else or is it just me
I hate it when some one posts one of those giant photos of something and it is so big that you can only see a small part of the photo. and it
stretches the whole thread out so you cant read a post with out using the arrow keys to go bake and forth.
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woody with a view
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yeah, bruce
i'd rather squint.............no, really!
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bajajudy
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Bruce what size is your monitor?
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Bruce R Leech
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so is that a yes or a no Woody?
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Barry A.
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Bruce-----
----this happens within the "e-mail" world, but I have not experienced it in this Baja Nomad forum. Strange-----have you??
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Bruce what size is your monitor? |
17 inch
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woody with a view
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bruce, i've had a few "pops" today as this is the annual OB STREET FAIR AND CHILI COOK-OFF. the surf sucks, but doesn't it always? to answer you
question, though, YES!!!!!!!
ya got me REALLY confussed, senor bruce.....
my friends usually go forth and bake.....    :moon: 
[Edited on 6-25-2006 by woody in ob]
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Natalie Ann
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dose this bother anyone else or is it just me
Bruce, you're not alone... it bugs me, too.
I brought this up once before and the general consensus seemed to be that I needed a more modern monitor and/or a trip to the laser vision dude. I'm
saving all my dinero for the next trip South.
After briefly considering the options I've decided to continue to scroll as I read.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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bajajudy
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Nena and Bruce
Point me to a post that has this, por favor.
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Don Alley
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Page widening is usually accidental, but it has been used deliberately by trolls seeking to disrupt a message board thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_widening
I could demonstrate here, perhaps by posting a huge, oversized picture of a can of processed meat, but I won't.
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Paula
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I'm with you, Bruce.
On my laptop some posts are too wide for my screen, and I don't like to have to scroll back and forth. An example is a thread opened by a newbie
yesterday. The picture was not improved by being too big for my screen, and the thread was more verbal than visual. ( Boy, was it ever!!)
There are exceptions. Some photo threads are enhanced by large size. The flower thread a while back is an example. Bigger = Better on that one.
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Bruce R Leech
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here is one currant example
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=17942&pag...
but some are far worse. my good Friend sharks Baja posts some huge photos.
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Bruce
Both the size of your monitor and the resolution you are running it at depend on how much of a picture you see on screen.
For example I have a 19 inch monitor. It is capable of showing 1600 x 1200 pixels. However the screen size I run it at is 1024 x 768. It is the video
card or chip in your computer that determines what your resolution is. The higher the resolution the smaller everything looks on your monitor. As a
side note to this, unless you have a very good video card then the higher the resolution the lower the refresh rate. This doesn't have anything to do
with the size of the picture just how long you can view it before you get a headache.
I try to post my photos at 640 horizontal resolution and leave the vertical resolution to what ever it scales down to in my photo editing program. I
either crop the photo to that size or I just downsize the whole picture to that resolution. I also edit the pictures to 75 pixels per inch. Most
digital cameras take photos at resolutions much higher than that. There is no need to go bigger than 75 ppi for web based pictures. Very few monitors
are made that are capable of displaying more than 75 ppi.
You can look to see if your video card is capable of doing a higher resolution. You might be able to go higher. Possibly you won't have to scroll
around to see the whole picture but you probably will have a hard time reading any text.
Basic steps to take for getting a picture ready to post on the internet.
1. Set the resolution to 72 or 75 ppi, what ever will multiply into the original resolution evenly.
2. Crop the photo size down to 640 x 480. Or resize the original down to around that size.
3. If your editing software has got it then run an "unsharp" filter on what you have left.
4. save the picture as a jpeg. This is where you change the size of the file via jpeg compression to get it under the 50 k limit. The fancier the
program the more control you have over the amount of compression. Do not do a "save" do a "save as" this will create a new file and you leave the
original unchanged. Jpeg compression is "lossy" meaning it looses some information about the photo. Do not do repeated jpeg compressions on the same
photo, you get lots of artifats.
burro bob
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Barry A.
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Bruce----
Your "example" came thru on my screen as a normal size (tho wide) picture, with me having to only slightly adjust to see all the width.
Interesting. I have a 17" monitor.
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bajajudy
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BA
It is according to what resolution your monitor is set on as well as the size.
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Barry A.
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Thanks, Judy-----
--------it is all a mystery to me. My son set up our monitor, as well as everything else involved with this "machine". It works, and that is all I
care about.
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Bruce,
Did you try to adjust your screen resolution ?
Right click on your desktop and try adjusting the screen resolution to allow the wide photos. I can get the whole photo on my 17" screen as long as
the "favorites" or other bars are not active.
I am set to 1152 x 864 under the "appearance" tab.
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Bruce R Leech
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I am set to 1152 x 864 also with a 17 inch thingy
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Diver
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Bruce,
Is your font size on "large" ?
Or is this one of those "special" computers from outer Mongolia ?
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