Thanks for stoping by. Ok about viewing "large" images on pbase. Go to any gallery and click on someone else's images. Once the image has loaded on your screen you will see at the bottom center of the images a list of choices, Sm, Med, Large, Original. Try clicking on original that way you will get to see the largest uploaded size for that image. Make sure you are logged into pbase and if you are from then on all images that you view on someone else's gallery will be show in "original" mode. If you have a slower dial up connection just to save you time you can view all the images you click on in small or medium and when you come across a image you like just click on original so see that photo in it's largest size. But remember from then on, untill you click on a different display size you will continue to see images in the original size which as I mentioned before can really be painfully slow if you are on a dial up internet connection. If you have dsl or a cable modem connection just surf with original.
Ok now on to your photos. I checked our your galleries they are very nice images but you are right they are a little small. And that does make them kinda hard to see and appreciate your work. I would suggest that you take your original images that you have scanned from film and resize them to 640x480 that is an image size that will fit on everyone's screen with out haveing to use the vertical or horizontal scroll bars on the internet browser. Even for people with 15 inch monitors. Hopefully when you scanned your images you scanned them large and just sized them down too much. If that is the case then it will not be hard for you to go back to those original images and resize them to 640x480. If you have not done it that way then don't try to take those smaller images and "upsize" resize them to 640x480 cause you will loose alot of image quality that way. Kinda like a baloon with text on it "happy birthday" if you blow the baloon up large then it was meant to be then the words look all distored and stretched out. The same will happen with "upsizing" a image scanned in too small. It's always better to overscan your needs and crop/downsize than it is to underscan the size you need and upsize.
I hope this helps. If this is stuff you already know please don't take offense.
Oh one last thing don't get too caught up on image file size being directly related to image quality, cause you can scan an image at some huge file size and them resize it to 640x480 and then in your darkroom software when you save it may ask you to tell it how good of quailty to save it at I always say 9 (out of 12 in photoshop) this knocks about half of the file size off but in web viewing conditions you wouldnt ever be able to tell the difference of the same photo saved at quality 12 vs one saved at 9 so it saves you disk space on your harddrive and on your rented space here at pbase and will have no effect on those folks visiting your galleries. So if you use something other than photoshop or photoshop elements it may ask you something like low, med, high, highest, if that is the case save at high.
Hi, I liked all your pictures. I'm having problems seeing the large view. My pictures are too small and even when I changed to 100kb I can't see anything large.
My daughter lives in Powell and I lived in Oak Ridge 10 years. I did love that part of the country.
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