martyyn 2 Report post Posted September 4, 2009 There have been a few changes behind the scenes just recently with how photos are displayed. You may have noticed the raw image is shown rather than the thumbnails of before. Mostly this is so we can try and educate everyone to resize their images before they post them. Sure we all have fancy camera's with 8+ mega pixels but the resulting file sizes are massive and completely irrelevant when displayed on a forum such as bimmersport. So can everyone please make an effort to resize their photos before posting. Its not hard, there are multiple ways of doing it and good knows how many ways described on the web. Self policing is where its at so please think about it before you post. Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi535 538 Report post Posted September 4, 2009 There have been a few changes behind the scenes just recently with how photos are displayed. You may have noticed the raw image is shown rather than the thumbnails of before. Mostly this is so we can try and educate everyone to resize their images before they post them. Sure we all have fancy camera's with 8+ mega pixels but the resulting file sizes are massive and completely irrelevant when displayed on a forum such as bimmersport. So can everyone please make an effort to resize their photos before posting. Its not hard, there are multiple ways of doing it and good knows how many ways described on the web. Self policing is where its at so please think about it before you post. Cheers so resize them to be say 800x600??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martyyn 2 Report post Posted September 4, 2009 Bingo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest FrantiC Report post Posted September 4, 2009 What if hosted elsewere? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30plz 1 Report post Posted September 4, 2009 What if hosted elsewere?I know with Photobucket it can resize them for you when you upload, I'm sure others can too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Braeden320 0 Report post Posted September 4, 2009 Microsoft Picture Manager works allgood for me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest FrantiC Report post Posted September 4, 2009 I know with Photobucket it can resize them for you when you upload, I'm sure others can too. And Imageshack, but I mean is the whole issue the file size of photos being uploaded to BS? Or is it big pictures in general? As in can we upload external linked images without having to resize? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pjay 8 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 http://www.iforce.co.nz/ is easy as pie Or http://imageshack.us for your own account. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
|ncary 0 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Most easy way of resizing if you are a noob: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whi...wertoySetup.exe All you do is right click on a picture and select resize, done. (I use Photoshop CS3 however and adjust levels etc. Takes longer doing them one by one, but looks better) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30plz 1 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 I mean is the whole issue the file size of photos being uploaded to BS? Or is it big pictures in general?Both, Resizing when you upload with Imageshack/Photobucket will make the files smaller anyway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenday-rulz21 6 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Bloody hell some of you do it the hard way. Just open it in paint, control-w, then make it smaller! It even takes it down from like a 500mb photo to a 250kb photo. Looks the same at the size wanted. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
|ncary 0 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 The first pic is a jpg saved in paint, the second is a jpg saved in CS3. Both have the same dimensions. The paint jpg is 195kb, and has so much noise in it, the brake hose, the logo on the tank, the fins on the engine etc The CS3 jpg is 177kb and has better colour grading and no noise at all. Takes the same amount of time (with practise haha) to - Alt+Ctrl+I > 1000 > enter > file > save for web > slide bar > save - as it does to do it the paint way. smiles! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenday-rulz21 6 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Mate, theres f all difference. I can't see any difference. (Call me blind) I'm guessing most people don't have CS3. I have, but opening paint is faster etc etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tire 10 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Whoa, I can actually see it in the brake hose. Thats cool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Simon* Report post Posted September 5, 2009 3rd party host sites (imageshack and photobucket etc) don't count as the images are hotlinked into the forum. They aren't hosted by BS so the only issue with them is "page-friendliness" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M325is 0 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 I actually prefer the paint file haha, the other one is blurry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
|ncary 0 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 (edited) It's not blurry lol, it's soft, it is smooth, not grainy and sharp and noisey. I'm sure anyone with photoshop XP would agree with this but as I said, the microsoft power tool re-sizer is the easiest and best way for generic photos. Ignore my suggestions though , I take photos like this: E: Resized your picture because posting a 2000 pixel wide image in a thread about oversized images is the height of fail. Good day to you Sir Edited September 7, 2009 by Simon* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30plz 1 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 ^ Exactly why you should resize... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apex 693 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Thats a cool photo. More! Maybe a random photo thread. Will resize with I-Photo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Simon* Report post Posted September 5, 2009 Wank factor is getting pretty high Henry. And +1 to what James said, that needs resizing to be easily viewed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark 178 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 I use Irfanview. Easy to do batch conversions to any size. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi535 538 Report post Posted September 5, 2009 ^ Exactly why you should resize...exactly.....the pics of the e39 phone brkt were the same...they wers so big it was hard to figure out what we were supposed to be looking at,and i have a 1300 768 screen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
|ncary 0 Report post Posted September 7, 2009 Thats a cool photo. More! Maybe a random photo thread. Got a few awesome shoots planned in the coming weeks: star trails, downhill drifting for the calender, girls, fireworks.. Won't make it to this forum however Might do a big flickr update, and continuing with my confident, cocky, internet only, persona, they are pretty good snaps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenday-rulz21 6 Report post Posted September 11, 2009 I swear people have started posting even more high res pictures since this thread started. Taking the piss. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Simon* Report post Posted September 11, 2009 I'll just delete threads until the message sinks in Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites