Why does everyone post such massive pics?

[trebor31]

Something I have noticed amongst PhotoBloggers in general, not just PP users, is that they post massive pictures, which need to be scrolled on anything other than large res screens.

50% of computers have 1024x768 screen res - so why post a picture that 50% of the internet using population cant see in it's entirety?!

Yup, any picture looks better bigger, but no picture looks good when you can only see two-thirds of it!

[blinking8s+]

Ive complained about this for ages...

[nygorilla]

Generally 800px on the longest side for me...

If you are frustruated by others, you are welcome to visit my site anytime

[trebor31]

Originally Posted by nygorilla

If you are frustruated by others, you are welcome to visit my site anytime

If you live in Oz, I would rather visit your house!

(But I did visit your site - nice work and kudos on the 800px size!)

[dakwegmo+]

I keep mine to 640 px on the long side. To prevent scrolling even for portrait oriented photos on wide screen displays. It also provides a small amount of protection from people stealing them.

[Joe[y]+]

i have a fairly big resolution - but above all big images = slow loading times... which piss me off, i rarely wait more than a couple of seconds for an image - if it doesn't come then i'm off somewhere else.

[trebor31]

An excellent point Joe...it drives me nuts as well.
Hopefully people will cotton on at somepoint!

[wojtek]

well. I use 1800x1200 on two screens :-) and I post 850px wide or 800px high photos all the time :-)

[sentinel]

well maybe i'm wrong but according to my stats more than 2/3 of "my" visitors use 1280x1024 or any equivalent widescreen/higher resolution.
nevertheless i'm posting no wider/higher images than 800px (most of the time). maybe i'll test something that allows me to provide a big and a small version at the blog without using js..( i know bigger is not always better. but imho the trend definitly goes to higher resolutions than 1024 )

[austriaka+]

some images look great when big, others when small. There are even images which look really amazing only in thumbnail...
I have a maximum of 600 x 450 right now, but for some images that is too small.
Sometimes I decide to do another format, 500x500 IE if I decide the motive fits better.
So I think the square size is up to the Blogger...

What I think worse is if the images have a too high resolution or are too less compressed. When I have to wait one minute for a 800x600 photo (what happens really often) I give up.

KArin