How do I post my original picture/size?

[chrisqueenz]

I have gone through the stickies and maybe I missed something, but I have a full tank shot taken with my DSLR that looks great, however when I upload to reefcentral using photobucket it resizes and doesnt show the "bigger" picture in full detail? Any help out there in RC land

Thanks!

 

[Brett9917]

Most hosts shrink your images automatically to save space/bandwidth. I know Flickr.com allows you to share the full size images if you have the Pro account... but that's $25/yr

 

[Reef Bass]

Photobucket used to have preference settings as to how to handle larger image files, like those over a meg in size, for example. Maybe they still do? It's not about pixel size, but file size. It appears that when an image exceeds a specific file size (used to be a meg, I believe), auto compression / reduction on upload kicks in.

Personally I reduce the dpi and resize the image size to create a "screen resolution version" when I post to Photobucket. Then Photobucket doesn't mess with my images. All that extra resolution, while quite necessary and desirable when printing an image, is not necessary when viewing an image from the web on consumer grade monitor. A small side benefit is image thieves and Google Images only get the low resolution photo.

 

[chrisqueenz]

Just testing here, this picture looks so much better on my PC

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57571884@N04/5299057204/

 

[Misled]

I'm on photobucket and flickr is different, so lets see if this works.


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57571884@N04/5299057204/" title="Wedding pics 12-26-10 404 by chrisretamar, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5299057204_b369f949f3_b.jpg" width="1024" height="374" alt="Wedding pics 12-26-10 404" /></a>

 

[chrisqueenz]

One word.... How?lol

 

[Misled]

:lol:

First when you bring up your link, click the share this box, then click on the drop box at the bottom of the right side of the pic to select the picture size. I chose large. Then click the "Grab the HTML/BBCode" box, it will turn blue. Right ckick the blue area and select Copy. Click and drag it to the Message box.

Nice tank too!!!!

 

[Brett9917]

A short cut is go to the large image, just right click on the image and select copy image location. Paste on to here and put [img ] [ /img] tags around the url. With out the spaces though...

 

[chrisqueenz]

Figured it out! Thanks a bunch! As for the tank thanks for the compliment, I just hope it can look half as good as some of the tanks on here one day.


Now can post some more pics!