Mark Roberts wrote: > One trick I find useful is to shrink my own image to thumbnail size > (say, 45 x 60 pixels) before deciding to submit. Most of what you see > in the Gallery shows up as a recognizable image of some sort even at > that size. No, it isn't universal -- I've seen some that are virtually > unrecognizable as thumbnails -- but the majority seem to hold to this > rule of thumb. I call this the Stenquist/Cassino property :) Just look > at their photos in the Gallery and you'll see strong compositions that > contain elements that show up even in the thumbnails.
This is very true. I've sent two mails to the Gallery Administrators on this subject, asking for larger thumbnails to improve evaluation at the thumbnails level. I have requested thumbnails of 120 pixels by the longest side. On another note, it would be interesting to hear what kind of bandwidth people have when trying to cast votes. I've looked into the load size of the voting page, and it kinda makes my neck hairs stand on end. A typical load size is 1.5 MB (!!). In addition, it is constructed so that the javascript that controls the display of the full-size images is loaded last of all, which means that if you try to open a full-size image before the page is fully loaded, you'll get error messages saying that some element "is null or not an object" which means the javascript try to call a function that hasn't been loaded yet. When that happens, you have to reload the whole page. This is also a bit quirky. The only clean way of doing it is to change the "submitVoteOnPhotos" in the URL into "VoteOnPhotos". Or you can go to another page in the application, like your profile page, and then back to the voting. It's poorly designed by any measure. :-( In both cases I have received responses from Carolyn saying "thanks for your thoughts", but I have no idea if they've given it any further consideration. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
