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Title: Tiny pictures
Post by: tim-pelican on August 21, 2012, 10:58:01 PM
Been meaning to post for a few days... did something change recently with the locally-hosted images?  Of late, it seems that a lot of the pictures in-line in posts have really tiny (like postage-stamp sized) thumbnails in the post, and on click-to-zoom expand out to something like a quarter of their real size.  I have to click on 'Details', then 'show full size' to get to the pic.

I could understand a bit if these were like 10 or 15MP images or something, but when I get to the final pics, they're only 1024x768 or similar.

Is it just me?  OS X 10.6.8, Chrome 21.0.1180.79, if it's relevant.

Cheers,
Tim.
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: scotsoft on August 21, 2012, 11:26:26 PM
I know I have done what you have described and must admit I never gave it second thought, I just clicked and viewed.  If there are a few pictures I use the arrow keys to move forwards or backwards to change the picture.

I will make some enquiries for you and return (eventually) with an answer for you  :thumbsup:

cheers John.
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: Tank on August 22, 2012, 10:06:15 AM
Hi Tim,
Nothing has been changed.  Can you put a link to an example please?
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: tutenkhamunsleeping on August 22, 2012, 10:48:04 AM
This one gives me a tiny thumbnail: http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=5668.msg82640#msg82640 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=5668.msg82640#msg82640)
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: tim-pelican on August 22, 2012, 10:55:53 AM
Hi Tank,

One that's tiny:

http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=7292.0 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=7292.0)

To me, that looks like:

(http://clover.pelican.org/~tim/ngf/1.png)

(I've deliberately included the banner and the avatar pic so you can see a size comparison)

If I click to expand on one of those, it gets a bit bigger:

(http://clover.pelican.org/~tim/ngf/2.png)

But I have to go into details, view image full size, to get this:

(http://clover.pelican.org/~tim/ngf/3.png)

Compare with this thread, http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=1520.0, (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=1520.0,) with externally-hosted images, which look much better in-line:

(http://clover.pelican.org/~tim/ngf/4.png)

Does the size difference between 1, 2 and 3 explain what I mean?  For 1, I can't even tell what the pictures are for the most part...

Thanks,
Tim.
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: Tank on August 22, 2012, 11:15:35 AM
Thanks for the good explanation chaps.  We'll look into it now. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: Tank on August 22, 2012, 11:22:10 AM
If you Refresh your browser, the thumbnails should be bigger now. :thumbsup:  I hope that's OK?

:thankyousign:
Title: Re: Tiny pictures
Post by: tim-pelican on August 22, 2012, 11:53:39 AM
Much better - many thanks!