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jypsee wrote:Pbase images shouldn’t be longer than 800 pixels on the width, or 600 pixels on the height in order to display correctly. I’ve learned this from over 10 years of posting in Pbase.
What you describe is just the opposite of what happens to pictures I upload without resizing. The “large” view is soft and the “original” view is not.
The way you’re viewing pictures may contribute to how they look on your screen. I use an iPad Pro 12.9 inch to view Pbase. It’s great at showing me pictures that I should have resized or sharpened.
I’d love to turn off the auto function on image viewing.
richo wrote:jypsee wrote:Pbase images shouldn’t be longer than 800 pixels on the width, or 600 pixels on the height in order to display correctly. I’ve learned this from over 10 years of posting in Pbase.
What you describe is just the opposite of what happens to pictures I upload without resizing. The “large” view is soft and the “original” view is not.
The way you’re viewing pictures may contribute to how they look on your screen. I use an iPad Pro 12.9 inch to view Pbase. It’s great at showing me pictures that I should have resized or sharpened.
I’d love to turn off the auto function on image viewing.
Well, I have been posting images on Pbase since 2002 and never had a problem with softening of images at sizes larger than 800x600. Until recently, I had been using 1040x640 and now mostly use 1280x915 or 1280x720. Image softness can be affected by the resolution of the viewing display, but that is not what I am seeing. I am seeing an actual change in the sharpness of the image when viewed in auto - they look unsharp compared to any other size. I picked original because the effect is more noticeable.
PBase images rarely look good at anything other than Original size, whatever that size may be. That's why I for one would prefer Original to be the default, though that would still cause problems with people who either forget to or don't know how to resize, and post 6000 pixel wide images showing every pore and nose hair of a model.
The key problem with viewing any size other than Original is that PBase's resizing algorithm is pretty primordial compared to something like Photoshop's. A 1200 pixel wide image which is viewed at the 800 pixel large size will lose sharpness. But so will a photo which is resized by only a few pixels because it's the entire photo that is being resized and reprocessed, not just those few pixels.
Your image PalmBeach Waves Crashing in your New Zealand gallery, for instance, has an Original size of 1,280px × 960px. However if you toggle to Auto this becomes, and I quote, "1,280px × 960px (scaled to 1,273px × 955px)". Yes, that's only 7 pixels of width and 5 of height but it does mean that the whole image has been reprocessed to fit that smaller size; it's not just an exercise in cropping. It's not a catastrophic change, but it's a noticeable one.
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