Hello tug, many thanks for response. Its a bit of a long story.
Since lockdown I have been thinking about doing a build thread on my current project. Not having posted photos for along time and not being able to get the image server to work I started a thread “Attaching photos” and with the help of Stan established procedure to resize pics in windows 10 photos and attach them to the post using Attachments and Options which is the system he uses for his many posts. This works fine except the preview in my post window does not work...........................................
I will continue to use this thread to test any changes but will add a note as to what I have done.
Any help would by very much appreciated but the subject seems be an ongoing issue on the forum with no definitive solution and may be an inherent deficiency in the software. I sincerely hope not.
I do agree with your comment on cropping.
Sorry its so long.
Peter
Peter
Lets take this slowly & sort out your problems.
1. You do not need to worry about the size of the photo too much. A picture with more pixels will appear bigger on the thread but only until it fills the available space with ways. If it is larger the forum will make it fit and it will nor change the aspect ratio (length to width). The advantage of them being bigger is that someone who is interested can click in the link ans see it bigger on their computer. If you look a the nice Lobster Boat picture that Stan has posted above you will see that it says that it is 1260 x 840 which is bigger than the forum puts in the thread (on my computer anyway). If you want to see it full size just click where it says "Lobster Boat.jpg" in blue and it will open full size. Somewhere around 1250 x whatever is appropriate to maintain aspect ratio will be a good starting point.
2. The reason that your photos look odd appears to be that you have lost the aspect ratio. Resizing only works if you change both width and height by the same proportion. eg half original size. Most resizing software has an option of changing one and the other sets automatically. If you have it correctly set the resized photo should look exactly the same as the original with no distortion.
Is that true of all the photos that you have tried to post?
3. Changing the size should not noticeably change the quality. If it does we need to sort that out as well
4. I am not aware of anything in the image posting on the site that would distort a picture so lets sort out your answers to the above before we go there. Do the resized pictures when viewed on your computer before you post them look good?
I guess that they do as these are 2 of your distorted pictures.
I await your reply.
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