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Yeah the default way vBulletin4 works is it creates a thumbnail version of any attached images which it displays (Think its set at a width of 600) and clicking it brings up a larger version in a lightbox. Even this is often scaled down a little but if you click it again it will load the full size imageHave there been changes to how images are attached?
I just added a few images and now they appear as small (no complaint about that) then when you click on them they appear larger but it appears you are controlling the size (no complaint about that either).
Thanks for all your work with the upgrade, looking great!
Should be fixed.I uploaded a couple of photos to the gallery, and now they are waiting for a moderator. Is that the way it's intentioned to be? In that case, I must upload my photos to another gallery. Part of the fun is to get stuff online right away.
ThanksShould be fixed.
-bob
it still exists sort of.My photos are hosted on Flickr or my own server. I don't upload them separately to every bulletin board forum. I find I can still use the IMG url /IMG mechanism, but I have to enter it manually—the image tool defaults to uploading the image here now.
Can we get another icon that loads images from a url the old way? Thx.
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I missed that. Looks much better now .Hit the right X boxes the reviews disappear.
View attachment 93135
from flickr by uploading from URL
Icelandic Horse by Bob Freund, on Flickr
Second example is by copy/paste the BBCode option from flickr.
Actually the original on flickr was 800 px wide.I presume the second image is the size that you set the image to be, without scaling. Look at the over-sharpening in the first, a result of scaling and resharpening.
My example ... Done right, the two images should be identical and unscaled (the photo is 1200 pixels wide).
from flickr by uploading from URL (retrieve from remote and reference locally disabled):
Leica M-P + Nokton 50/1.5 ASPH (LTM)
from flickr with BBCode:
You do have to be sure you capture the hard link from the original post sizing, not from a scaled version. Flickr adaptively scales things too; it's why I hate seeing scaled photos.
Note that on my iPad mini, both your images appear the same size. On my 27" display, your two photos appear two different sizes. Both my images appear the same size (smaller) on either device, and are scaled much less obtrusively on the iPad.
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Exactly what I want to avoid happening to my photos, bob. All my photos are output to fit within tha 1200 max bounding box, with some minor exceptions. I don't trust the gallery to resize them the way I want them to appear.Actually the original on flickr was 800 px wide.
Our display column width is 1200, so the image was up-rezed.
-bob
I make it policy that I upload and link 1200 pixel wide images for in-line viewing, and if a larger representation is needed that is made available by an explicit additional link so that viewers know they will be downloading something big. That way my flickr original upload is always the correct size (typically 125-400K) and renders properly on all devices without too much unnecessary overhead.It can be done at the expense of mobile users which now constitute about 25% of all our page views.
Where I am most concerned is for those folks who store a very large images some as large as 80 Mpx, where a direct url to the image would cause that entire image to be downloaded to their mobile device and only then scaled by their browser.
That adds considerable load time when browsing the site by such devices if such large images are referenced.
I hope that folks will have the good sense not to directly link huge images as it really slows down thread browsing.
-bob