Question for other people with photobucket.com accounts.

[AggroJones]

How come when I click on other people's photos (like danpik, Dave999) posted on this forum, they enlarge so much? Clicking on mine, I get a slightly larger picture. On everyone elses, it enlarges to cover most of the screen! Am I doing somthing wrong? If it matters, I have 90 somthing photos in my free photobucket page.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps its the size of the photos you post on the Photobucket site? Check this one of mine out, its 1000 by 573:



Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

Aggro,

I would like to know the answer as well. I don't use my Photobucket account anymore since they put the bandwidth limit on free accounts. I did the math and realized that I would hit the limit with one posting to the Atlas forum Sunday photos and I switched to rail images. I like Photobucket's speed and ease of use better. Have you had any bandwidth issues??

[dave9999]

Aggro,
I don't know... unless it has something to do with the size of the picture when you
upload it. I don't do anything special. I take the photo, load it on my computer and
then upload it to Photobucket.

Check the size of the photos on your computer before you upload. My photos on
my computer are all around 800 kb.
Photobucket says that photos larger than 250 kb will be resized. Photobucket
resizes them to around 200 kb and they show up large here. Good luck, Dave

[rrinker]

Size in bytes and size in pixels are not necessarily directly related. It all depends on how much compression you put on. I would NOT let Photobucket do the auto resizing. For example, photos from my old digital camera are natively 1024x768, and almost always bigger than the 250k limit of Photobucket. However, simply opening them and saving them with Paint Shop Pro, using the default settings, results in a file that is under 200k yet still 1024x768. Slight loss of quality but since I'm not trying to make prints out of these things, I can live with it. Easier to handle on my limited bandwidth. This at least is somethign I control - who knows what Phtobucket does to resize - you CAN reduce the pixel size without adding compression and it will shrink the file size in bytes, but then you have a physically smaller picture. I'll bet that's how Photobucket does it.

--Randy

[AggroJones]

Testing.....



See if this enlarges better.
I tried up loading them through a different path.

[dave9999]

Much better. Dave

[Anonymous]

How about mine? They are straight images under 250 kb without any mods.

I have yet to hit a bandwidth limit however am seriously considering a paid account due to the ease of use.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrinker

Size in bytes and size in pixels are not necessarily directly related. It all depends on how much compression you put on. I would NOT let Photobucket do the auto resizing. For example, photos from my old digital camera are natively 1024x768, and almost always bigger than the 250k limit of Photobucket. However, simply opening them and saving them with Paint Shop Pro, using the default settings, results in a file that is under 200k yet still 1024x768. Slight loss of quality but since I'm not trying to make prints out of these things, I can live with it.

Another way to keep images the same dimensions but reduce their file size in Paint Shop Pro (I use 8.1) is to use the "JPEG Optimizer" feature. You can dial in any amount of reduction and see the results in the sample window. I've been doing this for years for photos on my web site. I try to keep them all around 50K. They don't print good, but look OK on monitors.

Bob Boudreau