+New England n00b Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I am working on a new cache submission, and I want to put a picture or two on it. What dimensions (in pixels) are best for this? I don't want it to be too huge, obviously. The picture is not part of teh puzzle or anything like that... Thanks for the advice! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I make mine no bigger than 400 pixels wide - just me tho Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think the website will resize them accordingly. Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think the website will resize them accordingly. On the cache page? I know they do for the cache LOGS, but I thought that the images on the cache page are not... ? Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Select an image for your machine to upload. The site will resize your image once it has finished uploading. If your original image is under 125k or 600 pixels wide, the largest image will not be resized. It doesn't do the best resizing job. Editing your own larger image is preferable. Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think the website will resize them accordingly. Im not sure this is true. Ive seen some cache pages with such a big picture that you have to scroll from side to side to just to read the description. Then when you try printing them out, you only get half the page. Those pages are annoying! Not sure what the max size is off the top of my head. I'll try different sizes and placements on the page until it looks right to me. Trial and error yes, but its not hard to do if you have some kind of photo editing software. Quote Link to comment
+Goldfinch593 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 The image I used for my Dream Catcher travel bug is 300 x 225. I liked that size because it fit nicely on the right side of the page and allowed room on the left side of the page for text. You can use it as a guide. Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 My eyes went right past the TB to the blanket. I love it. I want it. I must have it. Er, where do you live? And what time are you usually not at home? Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think the website will resize them accordingly. Im not sure this is true. Ive seen some cache pages with such a big picture that you have to scroll from side to side to just to read the description. Then when you try printing them out, you only get half the page. Those pages are annoying! Not sure what the max size is off the top of my head. I'll try different sizes and placements on the page until it looks right to me. Trial and error yes, but its not hard to do if you have some kind of photo editing software. If you link from IMageshack or something it might not even know there WAS an image, so to speak. ? I am also looking at the edit page for my other cache, and the only image request field is for background images... I'm missing something here... Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 It all depends on what you want the page to look like -- the picture on this page is 225 pixels wide, and sits nicely off to the right side of the page with text to the left of it and below it, while the picture on this page, at 560 pixels wide, takes up almost the whole page width. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Images uploaded to GC.com are resized unless they already meet the criteria posted above. A background image can reside elsewhere (somewhere other than GC.com) and so those or any other image that isn't stored on Gc.com doesn't get resized. Anywhere that you can point outside of GC.com for an image file doesn't get resized. I'm not sure there is a rule of thumb but anything that makes your screen have to scroll sideways is a PITA. In that light most people can tolerate 800x600 though 640x480 is a good limit. Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I agree that sidescrolling is a PITA. From looking at some of the other caches posted above, I think I'll stick to about 500 pixels wide. Thanks very much everyone! Leaving open for.... well no reason. Comment away! Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Speaking for the others who have slow dialup connections like mine, I would say no larger than 600 pixels on the longest side. That is the size GC.com resizes them to, but if the image is hosted elsewhere, it can be much larger . . . and that is when it takes forever to get the page to load with a 24K connection . . . Quote Link to comment
+Goldfinch593 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think the website will resize them accordingly. Im not sure this is true. Ive seen some cache pages with such a big picture that you have to scroll from side to side to just to read the description. Then when you try printing them out, you only get half the page. Those pages are annoying! Not sure what the max size is off the top of my head. I'll try different sizes and placements on the page until it looks right to me. Trial and error yes, but its not hard to do if you have some kind of photo editing software. If you link from IMageshack or something it might not even know there WAS an image, so to speak. ? I am also looking at the edit page for my other cache, and the only image request field is for background images... I'm missing something here... Here is the code for my Dream Catcher photo. I placed it inside and at the top of the "description" box on my travel bug page: <img align=right src="http://img.Groundspeak.com/track/display/366c2c0a-cb71-438e-abc3-12127c92dfeb.jpg"> Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 noob, I typically use 500 pixels for a full width image. It works great for a 17" monitor (800 x 600 pixels). It does not force a horizontal scroll. If someone has a monitor smaller than that, then it makes them want to upgrade. Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I always upload my picture the cache page. Then I use html to change the size. I can go in and make it any size I want easily, until it looks just right to me. For example: <IMG SRC="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/51825b49-f612-450e-bacc-fe141b04dcf7.jpg " ALIGN=RIGHT BORDER="0" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="6" height=325 width=500> First off, I go to the page that shows the picture and copy the url. The picture url is put between the quotes. You can take the spot the says 'RIGHT' and change that to 'LEFT', (this puts the picture to the left or to the right of the text) or take out the ALIGN=RIGHT altogether and put <center> before the whole text with </center> at the very end if you want the picture in the center. Border says "0", but you can change that to "1", "2", etc, and that puts a different size border of black around the picture. Finally, you can keep messing around with the height and width numbers until the picture looks just the right size. Not sure if this is an answer to the question, but there you go. Quote Link to comment
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