Panorama image sizing

[mhawkins]

Currently its difficult to view panorama images. The thumbnail, small, medium, and large sizes are all too small for a typical panorama. I think viewers have an expectation that panoramas will take longer to view, and posters have an expectation that these images will take up more space in their account. So I think it would be desirable to make these images larger for easier viewing.

The problem seems to be that images are resized according to their longest dimension. My suggestion would be to determine if an image is a panorama by checking whether one dimension is, say, 3 times longer than the other or more. If so, then size the images according to the smaller dimension. For example, for a horizontal panorama, make the "large" image size be 500 pixels tall and let the width dimension fall where it may. Medium could then be something like 300 pixels tall, small 200, thumbnail 100 for example.

[matiasasun]

Agree... I have being thinking the same these days. Maybe a special gallery design for Panoramas with 120px high standard or something like that.... Or maybe each one will have to do it by himself (like the rest)

[simonb]

I third this request

I would like to display my pano's in a more friendly size (that displays better than the 'large' auto-format, but the only wat to do it now is to edit the uploaded image and link to the original.

[glenneroo]

got a fourth request here!!

and to make it even easier (or not?), just allow us to manually set the large/medium/small dimensions of individual images and/or galleries... then no guesswork needs to be done!

[nuggie]

yes please. Right now panos loop stupid.