Brian,
The gallery will accept very large images. I sized it to suit the quality
of the image, which is a crop.
To view the image at its best, click on the interlocking squares above or
below the initial image. This will bring up the properly-sized image, for
best quality.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 6:58 AM
Subject: [OM] ( OM ) Jim Nichols' patchwork
>I applaud Jim's visualisation, but there's something about the resolution
>(or
> something) on-screen that bothers me. I don't know quite what it is.
>
> So I wonder if Jim has sized the image to precisely the width that the
> host
> page will accept as maximum?
>
> I ask this since I have found that such sites will resize images that
> exceed
> their arbitrary maximum. Two examples:
> Facebook, for individual albums, requires that an image be no more than
> 604 pixels wide. Any more than that and their own software will resize it.
> The
> resolution and file size will suffer greatly, and the displayed image will
> show
> it.
> oldfriends ( www.oldfriends.co.nz), similarly impose a maximum width of
> submitted image of 580 pixels. Any more, and their processes will degrade
> the uploaded image.
> For example, this ** copy of a childhood school photo was awful until I
> determined their maximum size and observed their unwritten rule.
> http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/InstitutionPhotoView.aspx?id=112625
>
> (see me in this one, but I didn't copy it!, and Elizabeth wouldn't have
> observed the unwritten rule)
> http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/InstitutionPhotoView.aspx?id=112852
>
> and my grandfather in 1932 ... **
> http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/InstitutionPhotoView.aspx?id=110715
>
> Photos ** were copied using an E-1 with Zuiko 50/3.5 macro. Probably
> resized and sharpened etc using Irfanview
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian Swale. Daytime phone 03 326 7447
>
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