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Post by Original Admin on Jun 12, 2006 6:50:14 GMT -5
Should I create a board called "Rocking Related Pics" - A place to post your pics of tumbles kits and all kinds of rock creations, travels, locations, finds etc.
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"Member Pics" - A place for pets - people and fun in general
This sort of thing - so separate pics board for the general stuff and one for the rock stuff.
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Post by deb193 on Jun 12, 2006 8:56:55 GMT -5
Mark - I think the main reason for a seperate picture area was bandwidth. So further topical seperation should not be necessary. However, given bandwidth concerns, I think we might pin some general tips and guidelines, such as use thumbnails, and limit images to 6 or 7 hunderd pixels wide - or indicate that it is an oversize image.
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Post by Cher on Jun 12, 2006 9:57:32 GMT -5
If you're going to stipulate sizes, anything over 500 pixels wide leaves me scrolling back and forth to see the picture. As far as thumbnails, those are a pain for me. I don't use photobucket so have to make my own thumbnail pictures. I'm on dial up myself so I know slow. I reduce the size of my pics so they don't take long for me or anyone else on dial up.
The thing is, even with thumbnails, if they pull up a picture that's over 100kb, most of the time I don't wait to see them anyway. Unless it's something really uncommon or special, all I see is the thumbnails. Anyone with a digital camera has some kind of graphics program that came with it. It's not hard to learn to crop the pics (take out most of the unneeded background) resize them and raise the compression to lower the file size. It not only makes a big difference when viewing them but also when trying to upload them as well.
I don't think we need another photo forum. The life/universe forum is fine for family/pet/whatever non-rock related pictures. I do think though, that pictures should be kept off of the general forum, leaving it primarily for questions. Rock hounding trips and what not could also go on the life universe forum. They are generally more about scenery and not tumbling or specific rocks so would fit there.
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Post by parfive on Jun 12, 2006 15:21:48 GMT -5
Don't we have two separate boards now? Rock stuff in 'Members Photographs' All the rest in 'Life, the Universe . . ."
Rich
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Post by gaetzchamp on Jun 12, 2006 20:55:17 GMT -5
If you use Photobucket.com, you can also go in and "edit" the size of your picts. Experiment w/ that too and see what works for you.
gaetz
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since July 2009
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Post by rollingstone on Jun 12, 2006 21:14:21 GMT -5
I find it interesting that Cher on dialup doesn't like thumbnails. I have high-speed, and I hate thumbnails. If someone posts say 10 pics, they load instantly for me as screen-sized pics. With thumbnails, I have to open each one seperately, then close the window, and repeat this for all 10 photos. As I result, I often only open a couple of the thumbnails.
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rockhard
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since March 2006
Posts: 227
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Post by rockhard on Jun 12, 2006 21:50:58 GMT -5
Looks like I'm voting with the majority. It is good to see the feedback about thumbnails and picture sizes- I'll give up on getting picturetrail thumbnails to work, and smallify posted pictures further, maybe leaving a link to a high resolution one if warranted.
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jrtrio
has rocks in the head
With10 tumblers tumbling the sound is so delicious!Send me more of those little red fellas, please?
Member since February 2006
Posts: 535
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Post by jrtrio on Jun 14, 2006 3:58:32 GMT -5
I guess I'm the odd man out. I like thumbnails for one reason. If they are the "third" option from Photobucket then when you open those up and hold your curser over the picture, in the upper left corner appears the "print" icon. And in the lower right hand corner appears the "enlarge" icon. I love that icon. Because if the picture is big enough when you click on it the picture becomes large enough to really do some exploring! If you look at some of my pics of my shop and shelves and things. That when you enlarge those tumbnails you can acutually look inside some of the boxes on the lower shelves! I find that interesting myself. But, I'll do what most people will want to do. But, I think we'll need a larger vote on this before making any changes.
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Terry664
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since March 2005
Posts: 1,146
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Post by Terry664 on Jun 14, 2006 6:29:49 GMT -5
I'll stay by the comment I made in other thread relating to this. Leave as is. What if you have a picture that relates to a tumbling question, such as I have too much grit left, do you post in general or members photos, or comment in one and picture in other? I think we are making this way to difficult. Terry
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Post by Original Admin on Jun 15, 2006 9:10:19 GMT -5
Ok - as theres a majority - I will go with it. I cannot limit the size of pics - because not everyone has the software to compress them down. So there would always be large pics coming in. Thumbnails - thats for the more experienced users (IMHO) - again - software and a bit more knowledge in HTML is required and not everyone has this - so basically a knid of "global rule" wouldnt work 100% of the time. (Ive seen people produce thumbs of 300K on avatars!! I reckon were doing ok with the board pics the way they are at the mo - and the vote seems to say the same so I wont mess around with it. Cheers for voting.
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