Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 31853 Posts: 391
Posted: 2007-10-27 12:03:00
I admit to being completely stupid about picture size. i could distinguish a pixel from a labrador dog but only because I know what the labrador is!
I think the things I have been told by the red ink at different times may be contradictory but I don't think htis can matter a great deal when a complete ignoramus like me always ends up loading the picture I want.
--- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can.
Premium account Joined: Oct 02 Points: 17913 Posts: 294
Posted: 2007-10-27 15:41:00
Hello David
OK. Let me try... Every image on your computer screen consists in fact of many color dots. They call them pixels. Your computer screen is 800 or 1024 or more pixels wide - you define this in Windows (screen resolution)... In general: more pixels = image wider or more sharp (better resolution), but also the capacity of file (in kilobytes) is bigger. Some sophisticated cameras are giving very sharp (high resolution) images, but simple cellphones give very low. 600 pix image on your 800x600 screen will cover almost all the screen.
But trevel log pictures are displaled only as small size images - so there is no reason to require to upload them as 600 pix-wide image - because their size will be reduced by GS software anyway...
Hope it will help...
Have a nice weekend!
Wojtek
--- You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced... W.D.
good explanation wojtekd. I would like to add some info on size and need. As technology improves in the IT industry extremly fast, the size of pictures you do see on GLOBO might become to small in the future. Screen resolutions are getting bigger and bigger. Your "screen real estate" has increased in the last years dramatically and will continue to increase. This means that your resolution on a 5 year old computer (as GLOBO was born) used to be about 800x600. A 600 pixel (px) wide picture filled almost the whole screen. As of today resolutions of 1280 x 1024 and even higher are standard. That means that the same picture will not fill the screen anymore. Take this to over 2000 px in the next years and the image will be very small. This is why for example the travel log pics have to be 600px in minimum. The next main release of GLOBO might include bigger pictures as bandwidth also has increased. So loading times are no longer an issue in most countries. In fact the original picture you do upload is stored inside the GLOBO system, just in case new compression standards come along, or better image quality will be possible or similar. We can always rerender the original pictures and update them to newer standards! This only makes sense if the material at hand has enough "flesh" and this is the reason for the minimum of 600px.
Long story toled short. There is way more behind image uploads than you might think off :-) The bottom line is to have the pictures in the right size for storing (backup problems, to much hard disc space etc) and in the same time to be big enough for the future to come.
Hope that explanation sheds some light on that topic.
