On 11-02-17 4:01 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Currently images submitted for inclusion in our Pentax Users Gallery
(PUG) are supposed to meet the following criteria:
# Maximum file size is 256kb.
# Maximum image dimension is 720 pixels on the longest side.
From time to time there are suggestions that these limits are too
restrictive. So, a review is in order.
[...]
Your thoughts......
While it would be wonderful to support fancy automatic size-fitting
images to handle all manner of screens (what about those who view the
PUG on iPhones and Androids?), it will be an enormous headache.
Galleries like Smugmug, Flickr, Photo.net etc. do that sort of thing and
it's a lot of work to get right.
Enforcing a fixed upper dimension limit is fine as long as it's
reasonably generous. I think you can safely ignore those few who still
view the web on a VGA or even SVGA monitor. People like that will be
quite used to suffering anyway.
I'd suggest picking a simple fixed format like "image must fit within an
800x800 box." That will not unfairly penalize portrait or landscape
images, but may encourage square crops as a side effect.
If you must impose a file byte size limit, you must. People will just
have to crank on the JPEG Quality slider until it fits. That penalizes
images with a lot of transitions and detail; a little gaussian blur
before downsizing and compressing can help there. (Photoshop has that
option in their export menu.)
My 2 cents (Canadian; which is 1.016 x US atm).
-bmw
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