Image size for upload?

philx123

What size image is best for upload to a gallery? Do you resize for web, first? I always do, usually going for max size of 800x600.
Then I noticed some really bigger images on other smugmug sites, and that got me thinking, should I size them up, whether indeed, I was doing it right at all.
I began to wonder whether if I upload full size images, smug mug downsizes them automatically like some other sites.
I realised that I never actually read a protocol for the best sizes to upload.

How do you do it?

jfriend

Most people upload full size images (no downsizing at all). Smugmug will then automatically create eight different web-sized versions for you (Ti, Th, S, M, L, XL, X2, X3) and those are used automatically in the various viewing styles that Smugmug offers.

If you don't want some of the largest sizes offered, you can set the largest size you want viewers to see in your gallery options.

By uploading the original pixels, prints can be ordered (including large size prints) and those prints are made from the high resolution original that uploaded (which generates the better print). But, even if you aren't doing printing via Smugmug, it's still nice to let viewers have access to the XL, X2 and X3 sizes if their monitors are large enough for them.

I even have some galleries where I let my viewers download the high res originals so they can make their own prints, add them to their own digital albums, etc...

philx123

Thanks for that. I'll have to rebuild my galleries now. Doh, that'll teach me to dive in without checking first.

All the best. Have a good Christmas.

Phil