Size of portrait mode...

armani · June 15, 2006

Hello,

I know there has been a discution about changing sizes or adding new sizes like XL. Don't know what the final outcome was, but anyway i see the size of L- photos in portrait has changed. I use a 17'' LCD and the new size is really to small. Also i used the linking-option to forums very often and for that purpose the previous size was much better.

Is there any option to display portrait sized pictures in a bigger size then the actual L-size?

Armani

Andy · June 15, 2006

armani wrote:

Hello,

I know there has been a discution about changing sizes or adding new sizes like XL. Don't know what the final outcome was, but anyway i see the size of L- photos in portrait has changed. I use a 17'' LCD and the new size is really to small. Also i used the linking-option to forums very often and for that purpose the previous size was much better.

Is there any option to display portrait sized pictures in a bigger size then the actual L-size?

Armani

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2006/04/27/new-features-april-27-2006/

No option yet, but thanks for the valuable input.

kevin.coppalotti · June 15, 2006

armani wrote:

Hello,

I know there has been a discution about changing sizes or adding new sizes like XL. Don't know what the final outcome was, but anyway i see the size of L- photos in portrait has changed. I use a 17'' LCD and the new size is really to small. Also i used the linking-option to forums very often and for that purpose the previous size was much better.

Is there any option to display portrait sized pictures in a bigger size then the actual L-size?

Armani

Yeh, C'mon Smugmug, I have to compete against Hawkman over at DP Review, his pics are bigger and better and faster than mine via Pbase.....

Have a look at this pathetic portrait size below, Call that a knife.....err.... Large? Crikey! I've seen crocodile teeth bigger than that!
whadda we want??
Bigger sizes!
When do want it??
Now!

From your good friend,
Comrade Kevin,
voice of the Workers Collective .

Andy · June 15, 2006

kevin.coppalotti wrote:

Yeh, C'mon Smugmug, I have to compete against Hawkman over at DP Review, his pics are bigger and better and faster than mine via Pbase.....

Have a look at this pathetic portrait size below, Call that a knife.....err.... Large? Crikey! I've seen crocodile teeth bigger than that!
whadda we want??
Bigger sizes!
When do want it??
Now!

From your good friend,
Comrade Kevin,
voice of the Workers Collective .

Hi Kevin nice to see you

Have you read about our custom link sizes?

OK - here's a wonderful shot by our own Harry Behret:
http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1204913/3/75636283/Large

SmugMug -L (600px high) and the link is what you are used to:
http://andydemo.smugmug.com/photos/75636283-L.jpg

Custom (809 x 1000) and the link looks like this:
http://andydemo.smugmug.com/photos/75636283-809x1000.jpg

GO GET THAT HAWKMAN

georges · June 15, 2006

my 2 cents on portraits
Andy -

Just my two cents. There are a lot of folks that have left comments requesting bigger portrait photos. I'm not in that group.

The photo needs to fit on the screen without scrolling regardless of orientation.

Captions complicate this. When I left captions below the photo, my viewers seldom saw them. When I moved them to the top, they read them, but a lot of the photo is "below the fold".

I think the guys that are saying that monitors are getting bigger live in a different, more technical world.

Most of my family members have computers purchased in the last 3 years and the monitors are set at 1024. Some of the children of the older family members have set their monitors to 800 so they can see better.

I work in a company with over 2000 employees. Many people ask for a larger screen, but only a handful outside of the IT area are set for larger than 1024. They can't read text when the monitors are set at higher resolutions.

Finally - I monitor the data from our corporate web site and the grand majority of our customer set their monitors for 1024 and 800, with larger sizes coming in a very distant third.

Everyone's viewer community will have a different composition, but I can safely say there are not very many monitors that have a square or portrait orientation.

Please continue to fit images into the 800x600 box. Feel free to offer additional option.

Thanks, gs

Andy · June 15, 2006

georges wrote:

Please continue to fit images into the 800x600 box. Feel free to offer additional option.

Thanks, gs

Hi georges

I don't think we'll get rid of the smaller options. We hope to offer choices to display at the larger sizes. I really like the custom image url thing, it's a nice feature for folks that are embedding photos - pick a size, any size

I agree with you, and choice is good, eh?

armani · June 15, 2006

Hello again,

The custom link size looks like a solution for linking to a forum if you want to post a larger size then the L-size. But how does that new size get created? Doesn't the photo looses any quality by resizing it?

Armani

Andy · June 15, 2006

armani wrote:

Hello again,

The custom link size looks like a solution for linking to a forum if you want to post a larger size then the L-size. But how does that new size get created? Doesn't the photo looses any quality by resizing it?

Armani

It would only lose quality if you've disabled originals, in which case if you asked for a larger size than our -L, we'd have to upres from the -L. It's all in the blog entry I linked above

dmc · June 15, 2006

Andy wrote:

Hi georges

I don't think we'll get rid of the smaller options. We hope to offer choices to display at the larger sizes. I really like the custom image url thing, it's a nice feature for folks that are embedding photos - pick a size, any size

I agree with you, and choice is good, eh?

I complained quite a bit when smugmug decided to change the large portrait sizes... until they came out with the custom url size feature... problem solved.

the custom url image size feature is one of the coolest features smugmug has added... especially if you customize your site (only $15 to upgrade to power user..)

kevin.coppalotti · June 15, 2006

Thanks Andy, I just posted a road test of this custom size feature on DP review to test it out.
link:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1029&message=18853380

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