size of picture in post
 

What effects the size of a picture in any posts? On an infrequent basis I see pictures that are very big in some posts, how does this happen if the size of the file cannot be greater than 2 mg? Just curious.

If it is hosted off site.

This is strictly on PP. Most other sites have more complicated procedures and lower quality pictures posted.

Pixel size can vary, also image quality that's why you see that. 400 x 600 is about as large as you want to go, that still fits most peoples normal viewing area.

This is a very large image reduced to 400 x 600 and from 2.3mb to 122k.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1352512921.jpg

What I meant was that if you embed the image from a site like flickr you can have it as big as you want.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6042/6...39b913fc_z.jpg
917K at Rennsport Monterey by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6042/6...39b913fc_b.jpg
917K at Rennsport Monterey by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

:D

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6...8669e956_o.jpg
906 at Rennsport Monterey by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

If you upload a picture to pelican for everyone to see, then pelican automatically reduces the size to be no wider than 800 pixels. If you find a picture on the internet that you want to post, and you post the link to the picture from where ever you found it on the 'Net inside the [ img ] [ /img ] tags, then pelican can't resize it.

The upside to uploading the picture to pelican is that it'll never be too big. The upside to NOT uploading the image to pelican is that Wayne doesn't have to buy as many hard drives to hold all of the random images, and we don't use Wayne's bandwidth when we pull up the page with the image because we are pulling it from someplace else on the 'Net.

Maybe I'm not explaining it correctly. I know how to make pictures smaller but can they be made larger than the standard?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1352513275.jpg
this is 2.3 MB

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1352513477.jpg
this is 596 KB

but they are both the same size when posted.

Upload the big image to photobucket or flickr. Then copy and past the BB code embed thing. Or else use the dedicated url for the photo that you can get on some sites.

They will then let you choose the size.

OK, thanks. Sorry to be a little behind on this stuff but that is what I was looking for.

Read my post above. If you upload/attach an image to a post, then it'll never be wider than 800 pixels. The only way to have it show up larger is to upload it somewhere else and then link it to pelican with the img tags.

Got it now. Thanks to all. Now I will let it go.

Yep. My monitors are both 1920 wide and 1080 or 1200 tall but lots of pics are still too big for them, and most folks are still using much smaller monitors. I'd consider 1024x768 the limit of what I'd stick in a webpage if the average Internet user might stumble upon it. And 640x480 or 800x600 would be even better.

Guess I have too much Friday night free time. I don't intend to do it but was just wondering how they came about. Thanks Wayne.

It was either this or go to PARF and I thought this was better for everyone. :D