Problems with the painful procedure for placing pictures...

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Hey Mikey

I posted 2 photo's here: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=535

They are hosted on my own server (Parkdale Yard) and should look like this:
http://www.parkdaleyard.com/houses4.jpg
http://www.parkdaleyard.com/houses5.jpg

When I first posted the photos in the Scratchpad, the forum software was cropping off the right side of the photo. Now, it is horizaontally compressing the photo instead.

I have a lot of photo's I would like to post here. They're already uploaded to my server, so I wasn't expecting to have any problems. I really don't have the time to open them all up in Photoshop and re-size them to fit what seems to be changing parameters anyway.

I have a suggestion. First, it makes sense to have a size restriction on any photo's that are uploaded directly to the Gauge servers - ie the Gallery section. I would suggest that you make it 600 x 400 or 800 x 600 - standard sizes on Photobucket.

For photo's that are remotely hosted, there should be no size restrictions.

You mentioned that bigger photos mean there may be complaints from some people about having to scroll. So, to accommodate this possibility, it actually means that I have to spend hours re-sizing and re-uploading all my images just because a few people can't be bothered to scroll!!!! And this isn't even a real issue yet, just something you anticipate. It hardly seems fair to me.

cheers
Val

That's just it Val, We're only changing the settings to allow for larger sizes, not smaller, we're relaxing our original tight restrictions, although, I'm going to have to ask Pat if we can go to half a gig

The pictures you point to, I see - They were proportionately resized so their width would fit inside the "frame" of the boards, I agree, there should be some way to post them full size...(make the board stretch horizontally)!!!!

My original thought was that the board was actually shrinking the width and leaving the height intact, which would produce a vertically stretched image, and would not be viewable, so I'm glad it's proportionately shrinking them, at least.

I set the dimensions to 2000 x 2000 so anyone "can" post here from photobucket for example, so we have no real size restrictions, I also turned off the thumbnails - same reason. Don, Pat & I want everyone to be content when they visit Big Blue.

We really are trying to listen to everyone's issues and repair them, but this may be something built in to the board's design, so we may not be able to fix it.. and this would be the same issue, whatever server we were hosted on, since it seems to be in the coding of the board..

Something that I'm at a loss to explain, because some designer had to purposely do that. There must have been a lot of complaints about scrolling on the last version to give them the idea to change it.

I only hope Pat can find a fix for it... We'll have to wait and see.... But for now at least he fixed the cropping problem, the pictures look good, even though they are reduced.

~~~ Thanks!