Greetings . . .
I have received considerable feedback about the Photo Library capabilities that we enabled almost 2 years ago:
Inliners Post circa Sept '19 Many have suggested that it is just to much work to curate photos in this way before posting. Personally I think that the Forums medium is not unlike an online magazine – where one takes time to pick and choose one’s words and illustrates the objects/subjects of those words with equally curated images.
In an effort to simplify things I have configured the upload compression algorithms in the Photo Library gallery forum to enable ‘quick uploads’. These routines will take an unprocessed image and re-scale it on the fly. The result will be a 128 pixel thumbnail, 760 pixel medium image and a 1024 pixel full size image – with {img} tagged URLs. The routines are not sophisticated in terms of orientation – the image will be evaluated to determine if the maximum dimension is height or width – this max dimension is then used to scale both dimensions in kind.
I have done some experimenting with the compression routines to settle on a 3-megabyte 3MB limit. The compression routines are resource intensive. We will monitor this limit.
The 3MB limit should support most cell phone images – but newer phones are putting out some very high resolution content. These and 35mm DSLR photos will have to be rough cut down-sized before uploading.
Regards,
stock49
