terryjr wrote:
I also upload all my photos to smugmug, online photo server i pay good money for. From there its very easy to get a link to embed it with img code but this site doesnt downsize automatically so the photos blow off the page and make it hard to read.
Smugmug should offer you link codes in alternative sizes - something like the X2 or X3 would be a good balance of the image being large enough dimensionally but without the huge filesize and associated data penalty.
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal ... ay-qualityThe file size mattered much more back when some people still connected to the internet with 56k modems, today most people have at least some form of broadband. But even with broadband, a page full of 6MB photos straight off of a phone can take ages to load. And for someone browsing on mobile with a data plan, a single build thread with a couple hundred pictures could eat into a monthly data plan pretty quickly. An image sized to fit a typical computer screen doesn't need to be any bigger than ~500KB while still maintaining great quality. This picture was 2.4MB from my phone, but I sized it down to 1000 pixels wide, which fits well on most monitors. Its filesize is 538KB, so it loads quickly on just about any connection. And the quality is still 100% there - you can see every spec of dust.
When a site auto-resizes inline images, it only artificially changes the picture's dimensions to fit it in the screen, it still requires that the viewer download the entire large image, so relying on the forum's software to shrink the exterior dimensions of the image isn't a full solution.
All of that being said, please keep posting here! Some of the best builds here are "out of the ordinary" and don't seem to fit it. Who knows - maybe you'll see a few people taking inspiration from your build and doing a Subaru drivetrain or truck-style build!
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, but I now do it pretty much as Gonzo described- with my phone and email.. I used to use a digital camera, but I've found the phone/email/desktop way is really pretty quick and easy.. as an aside, I'm using an Iphone 6, and when I send it to email it asks for size preference (small/medium/large), and I've found that Medium sizes it perfectly.. (also, if I need to add any lines/arrow/notes to the pic, I open the desktop pic in Paint and get all artsy from there)..
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