Photo test

[watervole]

This is test post to see if photos from DW hosting can be made to work. I've taken a photo, set the thumbnail size to 1200 and inserted that into the html text (I normally use 'rich text' for input)

If it works, go back to my poor garden post, which should now have proper photos!




How does that look? It's a pic of the sword dance team doing the most complicated move in our repertorire - the cross double-under.

Comments

[ranunculus]

This picture is perfect! Good size.

[watervole]

That's great to know!

[pensnest]

Works for me! Good size for a thumbnail, and I get the larger version when I click on it.

I'd never thought to resize the thumbnail but it sounds like an excellent idea.

[watervole]

I made sure I've included instructions in the post, so that I can remind myself what I did when I next try it.

[bugshaw]

Lovely! And I do like the waistcoats.

[watervole]

Thanks! I think they were a big improvement on our previous costumes.

[igenlode]

I'm unclear why anyone would ever want a thumbnail at 1200 pixels -- with the two-column DW layout I'm using, even if I expand the window to take over the entire desktop (not my normal browsing practice), I still can't view the entire picture in this post using a 1600x900 monitor. (I'm actually wondering if your DW layout could be auto-resizing all images down to fit the column width; mine used to do that, but I noticed a few days ago that it seemed to have broken again.)
The normal purpose of a 'thumbnail' is to provide a small preview image that doesn't take up too much screen space or bandwidth to download, and even for main web page display you probably don't want a single inline image more than 640 or 800 pixels wide -- remember, for a VGA screen that used to be the entire desktop area, and on a blog page you're trying to fit in navigation links, window furniture, and potentially other functioning windows belonging to other software your readers might be using at the time! (I know 640 x 480 sounds ridiculously small nowadays, but in the context of an image embedded in other content and where you expect to be able to read the surrounding text, it's actually quite suitable for most purposes; when trying to showcase images for other sites I'm always surprised by how much photos need to be sampled down for effective Web page layout.)

The garden photos are showing up at 800x600, which is a much more suitable size -- and, incidentally, less than half as large to download (there's a noticeable download/render delay on this post).

[feng_shui_house]

I can see the photo- I wouldn't call it a thumbnail, though. It comes to me as 1200 X 900-- 967kb. That's awfully big for a screen view. When I click on it, the original is 4608 X 3456. That's 11.4 MB.

You're starting out with a huge image, and it's being reduced to merely far too large, from what I can see. If you continue uploading such huge images you might run out of space.

I don't know what kind of DW account you have- I had to hunt to find the relevant FAQ about photo hosting-

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248
it's very short and not very informative, but it does say this:

All users have a quota of how much disk space they can use. Free accounts can upload 500 MB of images, paid accounts can upload 1.5 GB, and premium paid accounts can upload 3 GB.

If you have a free account, you'd run out of space at about 45 pictures at 1.4 MB.

[igenlode]

I can see the photo- I wouldn't call it a thumbnail, though. It comes to me as 1200 X 900-- 967kb. That's awfully big for a screen view.

That was my instant and immediate reaction -- I've just been looking at the access statistics for my own website, and the reported screen resolutions for the last five users to view pages there were 360x748, 2560x1440, 414x736, 800x600 and 768x1024. So only one of those people would have been able to fit a 1200 pixel image across their screen, even theoretically.

The point about mega-sized images not only potentially taking a long time to download but also taking up a lot of disc quota for the person uploading them is something that hadn't occurred to me!