Thread: Photo display size

Dear Admins,

Is there any easy way to control the display size of the photos which are submitted for us all to ooh and aah over? Generally what happens for me is that the photo becomes too large to be viewed without scrolling back and forth. While that is irksome, it would be tolerable if that photo were the only thing affected. What bothers me almost beyond words (note, however, that I'm finding enough to use for venting here) is the fact that it also seems to affect all subsequent posts so that to read messages after the photo was submitted, one has to now scroll back and forth to read a simple text message, and you have to scroll forth and back, back and forth for each line. I'm too cheap to feed my mouse Rodent Super Chow and its vitality flags about the same time as my patience fails from all this scroll to the right, scroll to the left, right, left, right, arrgh! The result is that I end up not reading a bunch of pithy input and am poorer for not up-picking all that helpful, hard-won knowledge, and, and I think I've developed tennis wrist, and, and, and the ribs are showing on my mouse. What a woefully sad state of affairs.

Are you able to offer any help?

It would help if you told us what resolution you have your monitor set for, whether the problem is present for you on all threads with pictures, or only certain threads where people have inserted pictures in-line. If only certain threads, can you provide a link for one that causes you problems.

Regardless, it's not a simple problem.

• our member-base use a variety of monitor resolution settings... eg, 800x600, 1024x768, etc. (1024 or greater is preferred)
• we have a large number of people posting pictures who (apparently) either don't know how to resize a picture or won't.
• we have a large number of people who link pictures instead of attaching them... attaching is preferred for a variety of reasons, but the germane. one here is because the system will automatically resize it for you if it can.
• attachments were recently changed to display full size instead of as thumbnails and the max size was increased to 700 pixels.

The last item, unfortunately, is the only one we control.

The next version of the forum software is supposed to include additional options in how pictures are handled, but that's a ways off yet as it's still in beta testing the last time I checked.

One rather drastic solution offered up a year or so ago... you can go to your usercp and turn off show images (ie, uncheck the edit options/thread display options/visible post elements/show images checkbox. If you do that, then all images are displayed as links. I don't personally like running in that mode, but YMMV.

Slightly related. In Opera attached images are displayed side-by-side instead of under each other (which is what Firefox and IE do). I don't know if there's anyone besides me here using Opera, so I guess it might not really be something that will make its way to the top of the priority list, but I thought I could mention it.

Björn, you tweaked my memory and I recall that the same issue came up when the change was made to make attachments full size... as I recall same issue was raised by Ilija. You might check w/him as to what he found out.

And Bruce, I recall that one of the threads that was particularly frustrating with the oversized linked pictures was the "what do you look like thread... BTC (before the crash) we had gone through that thread and fixed all of them.... I've done that again. There were a couple other threads that were fixed, but I've forgotten what they were and so they have reverted to their BTC state. If you/anyone knows of one, post the link to it and I'll take care of it.

On home-barista the image size is limited to 800x800 pixels and the up-loader defaults to 600 pixels so you have to change it to get any larger. There is also file size maximum of 160K. So if the image is larger than 800 pixels or greater than 160k in size the poster gets an error about the size/resolution. HB is built on phpBB, you are using a different BB application so I cannot provide any advice beyond this.

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

On home-barista the image size is limited to 800x800 pixels and the up-loader defaults to 600 pixels so you have to change it to get any larger. There is also file size maximum of 160K. So if the image is larger than 800 pixels or greater than 160k in size the poster gets an error about the size/resolution. HB is built on phpBB, you are using a different BB application so I cannot provide any advice beyond this.

I don't know anything about home-barista, but on SRP attached (aka uploaded) .jpg files are limited to approx 1.5 MB in size. If the picture file is larger than that you'll have to resize it and/or change the jpg compression... something in the range of 65 to 80 works great. Besides the file size limitation, .jpg attachments that are greater that 700x700 pixels (wxh) will be resized automatically by SRP to 700x700, with the original aspect ratio maintained. (The ideal size, btw, is no larger than 620 pixels wide... that won't invoke a scroll bar, whereas 700 does).

It is STRONGLY recommended that you attach (ie, upload) your pictures... but if you can't for some reason, do not link to a picture wider than 700 pixels... if you do you risk and admin changing it to an uploaded attachment.

A fix for anyone using Opera

When visiting SRP (like right now), right click, choose "Edit site preferences". Click on the "Display" tab. In the "My stylesheet" field it will probably say something like"C:\Program Files\Opera\styles\user.css", if it does, go ahead and open that file with Notepad (or some other text editing program).

At the bottom of the file add

fieldset.fieldset img.attach { display:block; }

Save the file. From now on all attached images will be displayed under each other instead next to each other.



Edit: If there is no file name in the My Stylesheet field, then you need to make a file with the content mentioned above, and then fill in the path to that file in the field.

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