>>> Since I have a digital camera, I'm thinking I'd like to have a web site >>> to display my work for friends and family. >> >> I see you have a cox.net email address, just like me! Anyway, for the big >> bucks you pay Cox every month for your cable internet, you are also getting >> I think 70 MB of online webspace. Enough room for plenty of pictures. 700 >> pictures if you keep them to 100K each. (Any bigger than that is gonna be >> painfully slow for any dial-up visitors to your page) > > Since the computer monitors can only display 72 dpi, any resolution above > that is a waste. If you want to print them, ten 300 dpi is the way to go.
By my rough sloppy calculations, my monitor displays 85, 66, or 53 dpi, depending on what of it's three supported resolutions it's set at (about 12" wide, and it can do 1024, 800, or 640 pixels across.) I was talking about file size, not resolution. They are all interconnected though. I think that web browsers tend to show every pixel of an image, regardless of what you have the image's dpi set at. For instance, if I made an image in Photoshop that was one inch square, at 1000 dpi, and then looked at it in a browser, the browser would tend to show a 1000 pixel wide image, on my monitor (15" CRT running at 1024X768) that would be about 12" wide. And if I set my monitor to 640X480 or 800X600 the picture would be too big for the screen, even though when I made it I said it was only one inch wide. Also, having a small image size and resolution doesn't necessarily make for a small file. I just made a 640X480 72dpi document (all white pixels) in Photoshop, and saved it with no compression - the file took up over 900K! The amount of space a file takes up on a website depends on it's size in pixels, the format it's saved in (JPG, GIF, PNG, etc.), the subject of the picture (a detailed picture of a leafy tree takes up more bits than a picture of a plain white wall) and the amount and type (lossy or lossless) of compression used. You could always add a link to the album that says "email me if you'd like a high-resolution image of this picture suitable for printing." -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
