I suppose with a camera, providing you don’t want to keep the photo and just take it for the site, can be reduced before taking.
My ipad takes quite small photos. I’m not bothered that the pictures are not tip top clarity as long as I get a photo of what I want to keep.
A photo can easily be copied before it is resized. The clarity or sharpness of a photo depends more on a steady hand when taking it than the size of the image. An image uploaded at 1000 x 1000 (or thereabouts pixels) which will have a file size of about half a Mb will still be able to be zoomed in to for plant IDs. IF it is sharp on the camera/tablet/phone before resizing.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
It's odd isn't it ... although download speed is undoubtedly a factor, there does appear to be something else affecting some people's ability to access the photos ...
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Some of this is down to the million variables of internet provision, I imagine - neighbourhood usage, time of day, blockers /filters on the computer/browser, other apps running, other computer settings, browser choice, speed/age of computer etc.
I use imgur a lot to show pictures to people, afterwards you can just delete it from the site but you still have your copy on your computer/phone. Its anonymous and free.
Imgur may be 'free to use' but don't you kid yourself ... you'll be paying for it with all the information they get from you ... just like Facebook
"... Imgur is already profitable thanks to its paid Pro subscriptions and deals with advertisers, but now it seems that Imgur has its eyes set on other types of monetization ....... Hwang will also dive deep into the data to analyze who uses Imgur, and why, where, what, and when these people share images."
I have 100/100 and all the images loaded from top to bottom at the same time, (old style dialup loading!) I don't have this issue on any other site so I suspect it is the site or a combination of the site and our individual hardware that causes the slow loads. I should add that by slow I meant not instant, they had all loaded by the time I read the instructions, so I closed the browser and reopened it to actually look at them load, less than 5 seconds for the slowest, which was actually number 1.
Today the images loaded almost immediately, within 7 seconds anyway, but the other day they took much longer at the same 4.60 mbps, maybe, Dove is right re another issue?
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The clarity or sharpness of a photo depends more on a steady hand when taking it than the size of the image. An image uploaded at 1000 x 1000 (or thereabouts pixels) which will have a file size of about half a Mb will still be able to be zoomed in to for plant IDs. IF it is sharp on the camera/tablet/phone before resizing.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"... Imgur is already profitable thanks to its paid Pro subscriptions and deals with advertisers, but now it seems that Imgur has its eyes set on other types of monetization ....... Hwang will also dive deep into the data to analyze who uses Imgur, and why, where, what, and when these people share images."
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-imgur-plans-to-make-money-2014-3?IR=T
If you value your privacy and don't want others to make money out of you without your authority, I wouldn't use sites like Imgur.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I should add that by slow I meant not instant, they had all loaded by the time I read the instructions, so I closed the browser and reopened it to actually look at them load, less than 5 seconds for the slowest, which was actually number 1.