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RE: I would like to be able to upload higher resolution images.

levyj413 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:01:46 GMT

[quote][b]chrisbnp (3/6/2007)[/b][hr]Technically speaking, uploading at a size larger than the display leaves you at the whim of the rendering engine of the viewers display system. [/quote]

Umm. Your points would apply only if monitors stretched images to cover the full screen. And some Web sites screw up and display images at some size other than their actual size, producing distortions.

But I haven't seen a monitor do that by default.

And unless forced to by badly written HTML code, an image will take up however many pixels it needs, and no more. From what I've seen at DA, it displays images at their actual size, not forced to some arbitrary size.

For example, a 640 x 480 image shown on an 800 x 600 screen will leave 160 pixels blank in the horizontal direction and 120 blank in the vertical direction.

That's why images look smaller on higher-resolution screens: there's more blank space.

RE: I would like to be able to upload higher resolution images.

whitehawk — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:59:34 GMT

Good morning all. Thanks for the response,in retrospect you are both right the piracy issue is a problem but I would have guessed that by now most photo buffs would have purchased a large 19 or 20 inch monitor.Oh well thanks again for the replies and have a great day.

Paul

RE: I would like to be able to upload higher resolution images.

WillPat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:27:15 GMT

Hi whitehawk, and welcome to DA.

I think most of my images look better in versions larger than 640 pixels limits them to. But be mindful that the larger the size of images posted on the internet the more attractive they become to people who would steal them and use them in violation of the photographer's copyright. Many of our better photographers here at DA are concerned about that. And 1024x768 is still the most widely used screen resolution, so anything much larger than 640 would require scrolling by many users to view all of your image.

I would like to be able to upload higher resolution images.

whitehawk — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:29:58 GMT

Good morning everyone. I am fairley new to the site and really enjoy the interaction with fellow photo buffs. I would however like to be able to upload larger images and just have less of them .Does anyone else agree? Is this possible ? I think that using such low resolution files makes them look some what out of focus and to grainey.