what determines 'large' displayed size?

jim_h

My galleries are set to 'all thumbs', default size is 'large'. I saw that photos in portrait orientation were displayed at 800 pixels high. So, thinking I'd optimize for that size, I resized some photos to 800 high and sharpened at that size, then uploaded. SmugMug then punished me by displaying those images only 600 pixels high.

What controls this? I'd like to size and sharpen my images as they will be displayed. Why does it change?

Andy

Here's how we make display copies:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/display-quality

And, we also sharpen the images for display, too.

We'll have SmugMungous at some point soon, we hope, and you'll get bigger portrait L's

jim_h

Thanks - but I'm still not quite getting it. The Help section on Display Quality says this:

"If the original you upload is less than 801x801 pixels, but greater than 600x450, we do not make a large copy but instead use your original as large."


That seems to say that if I uploaded an image of 800 x 562, it would be dispalyed at that exact size, instead of being reduced to 600. Correct? But I've tried images at exactly 800, and well above 800, and both were reduced to 600. Some of my older photos are displayed at 800 pixels high, but I can't seemt to get any new photos to display at that size.

How do I get a portrait image to display at 800 pixels high?

Mike Lane

jim_h wrote:

Thanks - but I'm still not quite getting it. The Help section on Display Quality says this:

"If the original you upload is less than 801x801 pixels, but greater than 600x450, we do not make a large copy but instead use your original as large."


That seems to say that if I uploaded an image of 800 x 562, it would be dispalyed at that exact size, instead of being reduced to 600. Correct? But I've tried images at exactly 800, and well above 800, and both were reduced to 600. Some of my older photos are displayed at 800 pixels high, but I can't seemt to get any new photos to display at that size.

How do I get a portrait image to display at 800 pixels high?

If you're viewing your images in the smugmug style, you will only see portrait images at a max of 600px tall. You will be able to see the large version of the image in the single image view which you can get to from the flyout photo menu bar when you hover over your image. You will see links there for small medium and large, click on large and your 800px tall image will be displayed.

jim_h

As per my original post, I'm using "all thumbs" style where the large image comes up in a new page.

Andy

jim_h wrote:

As per my original post, I'm using "all thumbs" style where the large image comes up in a new page.

Hi Jim,

Right. And portrait Larges will be 600px high. Unless they are older images on SmugMug, before we changed it (early on, they were 800px high).

PBolchover

I suspect that the help page quoted above wasn't updated to take account of the reduction in the Large size...

Andy

PBolchover wrote:

I suspect that the help page quoted above wasn't updated to take account of the reduction in the Large size...

"up to 600 pixels high"

jim_h

>> Unless they are older images on SmugMug, before we changed it (early on, they were 800px high).

Not knowing that the rules had changed, I've been preparing 800px portrait images, then trying to figure out why they were displayed at 600, when older photos in the same gallery display at 800. Now I see that in fact, when I replaced older images with new ones, I lost the 800px and went down to 600 for good.

So my question has been answered, and all that's left is for me to say - just as a comment -that this is really disappointing, I've wasted a lot of time, and I wish SmugMug would get sort of get with the program here and offer larger image sizes.

Mike Lane

Andy wrote:

Hi Jim,

Right. And portrait Larges will be 600px high. Unless they are older images on SmugMug, before we changed it (early on, they were 800px high).

my bad sorry! I forgot about that.

PBolchover

I meant that the following bit on the help page hasn't been updated:

If the original you upload is less than 801x801 pixels, but greater than 600x450, we do not make a large copy but instead use your original as large."