Compress your @*#(ing pictures before emailing them.

[Kanalua]

Does no one host their images? I just post a link to the flickr set of the pics I want my friends/family to see (actually post to fb or g+)...hardly email my friends and family.

 

[Eos]

Does no one host their images? I just post a link to the flickr set of the pics I want my friends/family to see (actually post to fb or g+)...hardly email my friends and family.

Hosting ftw. I go one further and offer multiple resolutions; 800x600 (yuck!), 1200x960, full res. Works great, and only a little more work for me.

 

[SonicIce]

or theyll scan something and the item scanned is a small part of the image among a huge white space

 

[Leros]

Does no one host their images? I just post a link to the flickr set of the pics I want my friends/family to see (actually post to fb or g+)...hardly email my friends and family.

Are there any hosting services that easily let you download the entire album at the original image quality?

 

[Jeff7]

or theyll scan something and the item scanned is a small part of the image among a huge white space

Along these lines: Retailers that put a tiny 150x150px image of the item that's captioned "Click on image to enlarge," which links you to the same image. They should just add a little animation that points and laughs at you.

 

[Eos]

Along these lines: Retailers that put a tiny 150x150px image of the item that's captioned "Click on image to enlarge," which links you to the same image. They should just add a little animation that points and laughs at you.

Even worse: The stupid website forces MULTIPLE clicks to get to that tiny image.

 

[Locut0s]

Along these lines: Retailers that put a tiny 150x150px image of the item that's captioned "Click on image to enlarge," which links you to the same image. They should just add a little animation that points and laughs at you.

In their defense most of these retailers have thousands upon thousands of products and they just take the images and product descriptions copy and paste from the manufacturers web site. The "click to enlarge" is just a script that resizes images that happen to be larger to a small thumbnail size that looks better on their main product page. It's almost all automated.

 

[notposting]

easiest way if using win7: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ <--image resizer powertoy for win7

 

[indamixx99]

easiest way if using win7: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ <--image resizer powertoy for win7

+1
Still my favorite Windows powertoy!

 

[Eos]

Thanks for posting that. I've never found a good batch resizer.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Throw those pics into a modern turbofan and you get a nice 30:1+ compression ratio!

 

[StinkyPinky]

easiest way if using win7: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ <--image resizer powertoy for win7

Yeah I've been using that since its XP days. Very awesome. Even my father can resize images with this tool.

 

[Jeff7]

In their defense most of these retailers have thousands upon thousands of products and they just take the images and product descriptions copy and paste from the manufacturers web site. The "click to enlarge" is just a script that resizes images that happen to be larger to a small thumbnail size that looks better on their main product page. It's almost all automated.

Alright, a script or something then:
IF (enlarged image size == original image size)
{
Remove "Enlarge Image" link from page.
}




Another kind of compression issue I run into on retail sites: "Spatial" compression

Newegg does it, and apparently Staples does it, as I just found.
They do this with their image viewer.
They do at least use high-resolution image, but only let you see a tiny portion of it at any one time - and the viewer window is not resizable. The image itself is 400x400 pixels. Who thought that this would be a good idea? Does anyone ever try to use their own creations before publishing them?

 

[Locut0s]

Alright, a script or something then:
IF (enlarged image size == original image size)
{
Remove "Enlarge Image" link from page.
}




Another kind of compression issue I run into on retail sites: "Spatial" compression

Newegg does it, and apparently Staples does it, as I just found.
They do this with their image viewer.
They do at least use high-resolution image, but only let you see a tiny portion of it at any one time - and the viewer window is not resizable. The image itself is 400x400 pixels. Who thought that this would be a good idea? Does anyone ever try to use their own creations before publishing them?

Yeah true that would be easy to do but, yeah they don't. lol

Probably because they use some turn key web store product to create their online storefront and it never had this feature.

 

[Ichinisan]

Sweet! Thanks for the wallpaper!

Can I has 2560x1600 pls?

 

[Ichinisan]

The worst is when they hit print screen and paste it in outlook. Those files are huge.

This. It's MUCH worse when everyone has dual-displays.

I tell them all the time: HOLD ALT WHEN YOU PRESS PRINT SCR!

I send images in bitmap format to ensure there is no quality loss.

Use PNG (or stop trolling).