Re[2]: New Photos!

["David M. Young" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some really good tips on formatting, thumbnails, etc... for presenting
your images in the web, take a look at:

	http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/images.html

Best tips for making your images look their best. 

Cheers, 
D.


At 02:36 PM 6/24/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Luvdove6@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> Hey...  I added much better b&w photos... before you only saw about 6 color 
>> IR photos that came out pretty crappy...  these were my experiences with
b&w 
>> (done RIGHT this time with the right filter)   Go see em!   Critiques are
>> welcome...  I'd rather get critique of my photography than my web-design 
>> since its pretty simple  ;-)
>> Thanks guys.. you've helped me a lot! 
>> 
>> http://members.wbs.net/homepages/f/r/e/freakkk/enter.htm
>
>That said, I would change the size of the thumbnails, making them smaller.  
>The 
>page is really taking a long time to download (it is still downloading as I 
>type
>this).  I use a 28.8 modem (it's now finished loading - took about six 
>minutes),
>which is actually rather typical.  The last thing you want is for someone to 
>give up because of a long download time.  It appears that you have much to 
>offer, as the thumbnails look very good.
>
>Cheers -
>
>george
>
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>Subject: Re: New Photos! 
>Author:  <infrared@xxxxx> at Internet
>Date:    23/6/99 22:46
>
>Hi Holly,
>
>I think the website design is nice and simple.  I have the added benefit of 
>being able to view your pages via a very fast link so the large(64kB!) 
>thumbnails didn't take too long (in fact some of your 'larger images were 
>smaller in file size than the thumbnails! eg. 'irtreesledges.jpg' was only 
>41kb 
>on the enlarged one!), 
>In general I will second George's comment.  That is keep the thumbnails small 
>(say 5-10kb, depending on how many thumbnails you want to display at once.  
>from
>my experience, any page which has more than about a total of 60 to 80kb of 
>pictures on it will not be stared at for long by a slowish modem user (ie 
>28.8kbps) and then all you effort has gone to waste on them :( Definitely
make 
>the bigger dimensioned image a larger file size (say up to 80-100kb MAX,
after 
>all the person did want to view the image!).
>
>  When you compress a JPEG image you usually get an option as to the 
>compression
>ratio (eg. in Paintshop Pro or Adobe Photoshop etc).  Obviously the higher
the 
>compression, the poorer the image quality but the smaller the file size, and 
>the
>more likely someone is going to hangabout your page waiting for the images to 
>download, So you have to balance the tradeoffs.  but you may be incredibly 
>suprised by how little detail is lost when compressing a jpeg (aka jpg) file 
>with a high compression ratio.  Try it and see for yourself!
>
>all the best
>regards
>Peter
>
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