JWFilips posted some good info. He's also accurate that GIF isn't the best format for photos. It works, but JPG is generally better for photos.
Some general guidelines when posting photos to any forum:
At the end of the day, our goal is the best experience for everyone involved in the site and we want you all more focused on discussing cast bullets than worrying about bits and bytes. We recognize that everyone's technical knowledge is different. If you know how to adjust image sizes and don't mind doing so, we'd appreciate it -- we all benefit from it. If you're not technical, that's okay -- do what you know how to do, but whatever you're doing here, have fun with it!
If you've got questions, feel free to ask. If I don't get back to you, bug Brad and he can let me know -- I'm the family IT nerd, he's the family bullet guy. I'm IT support here and you guys all know a whole lot more about casting and shooting than I do.
-Kevin
Some general guidelines when posting photos to any forum:
- Crop and resize the photo to what's needed. Modern digital cameras produce huge images -- the files from mine are between 12 and 24 megabytes each. A lot of phones also produce very large images, but not as large as most cameras.
- You're best off saving your photos as JPGs. GIF is better for charts, graphs, etc -- things with large areas of solid colors, lines in them, etc.
- A general rule of thumb is that photos for posting in a forum don't need to be larger than 1024 in any direction, and often smaller than that. The exception is if you're doing something that needs to show fine detail, where higher resolution is needed.
- Try to limit file size, as well -- typically when you save a JPG, it wants to know quality. Medium quality is sufficient for online purposes; you only need high quality if you're sending it to someone who's going to print it and they want a quality print. If your program lets you specifiy DPI, select 72 for online use.
At the end of the day, our goal is the best experience for everyone involved in the site and we want you all more focused on discussing cast bullets than worrying about bits and bytes. We recognize that everyone's technical knowledge is different. If you know how to adjust image sizes and don't mind doing so, we'd appreciate it -- we all benefit from it. If you're not technical, that's okay -- do what you know how to do, but whatever you're doing here, have fun with it!
If you've got questions, feel free to ask. If I don't get back to you, bug Brad and he can let me know -- I'm the family IT nerd, he's the family bullet guy. I'm IT support here and you guys all know a whole lot more about casting and shooting than I do.
-Kevin