Crappy blogger images

marikris

I'm using blogger right now and I'm really severely, completely, and sadly underwhelmed by how my images are being displayed. Is there any way whatsoever that I can uploaded better into blogger?

I have tried two ways of uploading: http://blog.krisfulk.com
The teaser of Jay and Lisa's weddings are directly uploaded into blogger, while the blog post before that, of a pretty PG boudoir, is linked from smugmug. The first is totally craptastic (admittedly I think these were web sized) and the second completely killed the pop from the photos.

I'd really appreciate any help in this - it's driving me nuts!

denisegoldberg

Frankly I don't see a difference between the photos in smugmug and those posted in your second blog entry -other than the size, that is, and the fact that blogger cuts off photos that are too large for the space in which you placed them.

You are referencing the -L version of your photo in blogger, and it doesn't fit in the available space (at least on my laptop screen). You might try switching to the -M version or using a custom size (http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-photo-sizes).

I would agree that using blogger's insert photo icon gives you very poor picture quality. I always use <img src statements to add to my blog.

--- Denise

ojn

marikris wrote:

I'm using blogger right now and I'm really severely, completely, and sadly underwhelmed by how my images are being displayed. Is there any way whatsoever that I can uploaded better into blogger?

I didn't notice any difference in appearance between your blog-presented images and the ones on the smugmug side (Safari on Mac). Pictures uploaded to blogger tend to get waay overcompressed.

We run a little blog of what our kid is up to for our extended family, and we've given up uploading pictures to it directly. Instead we have a separate gallery on SmugMug that we allow external linking on, and link from there instead. Like you've done in the second post on your blog.

I found it easy to just use the lightbox and drag the images over. I've started disabling the link so that people don't get brought back to the blog gallery on smugmug when they are clicked, but that's just a matter of preference. (I do it by editing the html for the post by hand).

I also go in and manually switch the width of a landscape picture to be 90% (i.e. replace the width: <x> height: <y> to just be width: 90%). For portraits we stick to 60% or they become a bit too tall. I normally drag over XL or X2-sized lightbox images to the blogger side.

The main drawback of NOT hosting your pictures on the same site as the blog, is that I've found that facebook doesn't allow you to use the picture as the icon for the link when you post it there.

Andy

why 'upload' to blogger?
Just link your images from SmugMug, in any size you like.

html help:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/html-help

links:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-sharing-links

custom sizes:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-photo-sizes

BradfordBenn

Andy wrote:

why 'upload' to blogger?
Just link your images from SmugMug, in any size you like.

I agree with this solution. What I have done is created a gallery just for Blog Links, I also have one for DGrin Links... etc. Works pretty well for me. I also wrote a "script" that will take the image link and parse it to IMG and Link format as I want.

marikris

Well goodness, thank you all for pointing out that it looks the same on blogger as linking off smugmug. I was convinced it looked a little softer! I really appreciated the advice, and now I'm off to utilize them!