On Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:49 AM, "Bruce Walker" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-10-27 8:30 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > > I suppose all of these posts on the 'new' Pentax Gallery are getting a > > bit boring. But what the hell... > > > > I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but when looking through my > > gallery, I've noticed that the images look quite soft - certainly more > > so that I remember from the 'old' PPG. After thinking about it for a > > while I've realised that the 'new' gallery dynamically resizes images to > > fit the available real estate in the browser window. This means that if > > one is viewing on a reasonably large monitor (say 19' or more) with the > > browser maximised, the image will be displayed at a size larger than the > > size of the original image. For example, on my 23" widescreen monitor, > > landscape format images are displayed at about 1140 x 760 pixels whereas > > the original size of these images is only 900 x 600. No wonder they > > look soft! > > > > This problem won't affect images uploaded to the 'new' PPG as the size > > limits now require a minimum image height of 900 pixels. > > > > Just another little observation...... > > Not just soft, but artifacty too. I noticed that all the images I looked > at seemed "crispy", distorted, like they'd been resized with a crappy > algorithm. > > I'd say this re-design has been done without the guidance of any picky > photogs or artists. "Hey guys, my young nephew is a web-thingy wizard. > Yeah he's the one glued to his Xbox. Let's ask him if he'll do it."
Yeah, it's disappointing and doesn't do the status of the gallery any good as a showcase for photography. It shouldn't have been too difficult to include a routine to ensure that older images don't display larger than their original size. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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.
