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Subject: Re: Photo sites, dial-up and image size

Date: Fri 20/04/07 22:15:34 GMT

Name: MG

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The quality of the photography is so good these days that large pics are well worth the wait. It is true that a bit of cropping here and there on some photo's would speed things up.But I would not ask anyone to do that,I must say that if they did I would appreciate it.As someone mentioned it could be done in some photo's without taking away from the picture.I can understand, that when you have had high speed for years it is easy to forget about dial up. If we get it here I won't look back either. Telecontar thankyou for asking.Perhaps it will freshen a few minds that there are lots of dialup users still out there.

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Photo sites, dial-up and image size

By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Fri 20/04/07 10:18:33 GMT

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Since MG brought up the issue of dial-up, I thought I'd ask more clearly this time -- are dial-up users happy with photo sites?

The most recent Liquid Ladies photo set, for example, has photos reaching 1 MB per image, which on dial-up would be particularly painful. On average, Liquid Ladies images are about 600 kB each, which would take a little while to get through (something like two minutes!) The thumbnails are too small to substitute as full-size images for dial-up users.

I don't know how other pay sites work, but they all seem to offer large images these days and it must be pretty uncomfortable for dial-up users to get into wetlook at all.

The sites that use Gallery 2, though -- Squishy Shoes and Tub Queens for example -- have thumbnail, medium and (extra) large image sizes all automatically generated. Dial-up users can settle on medium for the most part, and open the large images for those shots that are particularly special (and since some of them are freakin' 8 MP or something -- three times the width of my monitor -- go and have a long soak in the bath in your jeans while the modem sits and thinks about downloading a copy).

Is everyone happy with sites the way they are?

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