... also apply to images posted in the Portfolio section?
The reason I need to know is because I've finally decided on an online photo host and they automatically size everything to be displayed on their site to 800x600dpi. This means that there's no point standardizing pictures at 720 on the long side as per NPN requirements because they are going to resize it to 800 on the long side anyway.
So I'm trying to find out if I would also need to resize every photo to NPN requirments should I decide to go ahead with an NPN portfolio as well. The reason I want a photo host in addition to NPN is because I want to be able to link individual photos to other sites and blogs. Can't do that from NPN Portfolios.
I'm not so presumsuous as to suppose that an online portfolio here or anywhere else will reap me tons of bussiness but I'm getting more and more requests from people who would like to see my work online. Some of these people (like the ones I meet on my canoe trips) I'm not likely to see again but they want to see my work and what I'm doing lugging ridiculous amounts of camera equipment around in the wilderness.
Bob
Posted by Alice Scoggins on September 2, 2007 at 11:05 AM
The guidelines in photoportfolios.net state 640 pixels on the longest side, and no more than 200kb in size.
Posted by Richard Ditch on September 2, 2007 at 1:28 PM
I would have nothing to do with a web host that dictated image size and resized my images to some arbitrary standard. Find another host before you invest any moe time or money in this outfit.
Richard, the resizing is only done to the pictures that are displayed on the web ... not to the original files and 800x600 is no more arbitrary than any other web display size including the 720pixel maximum here on NPN.
Bob
Posted by Richard Ditch on September 3, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Bob:
1. How are the images resized?
2. If they are resized, are they resampled?
3. If they are resampled, are they resharpened as well to compensate?
4. What settings are used to resharpen them?
5. What happens if your original image has proportions other than 4x3 - is one side streched or compressed to fit the 4x3 aspect ratio?
If you want your images to look their best then you need to stay in control of all this stuff, and not let it be done by a process you don't control or don't understand. If you spend time and effort deterining the proportions of any crop, selecting the correct amount of sharpening after resizing, and setting the amount of jpeg compression that maintains the look of you image why would you ever allow a web site host to screw around with evrything you've worked hard to get looking right? What am I missing in this?
If you want your images to look their best then you need to stay in control of all this stuff, and not let it be done by a process you don't control or don't understand. If you spend time and effort deterining the proportions of any crop, selecting the correct amount of sharpening after resizing, and setting the amount of jpeg compression that maintains the look of you image why would you ever allow a web site host to screw around with evrything you've worked hard to get looking right? What am I missing in this?
Richard, I don't see that you are missing anything. It might help to be aware of the intended web host and that is CNet Networks. That should speak for itself but I appreciate your concern for the quality of even the pictures for web display, and that is why I will resize (to 800x600) and compress and sharpen myself. Another reason why I will not upload anything bigger than 800x600 pixels @ approx 150KB is to make them unusable to possible theaves (how do you spell that?).
As for your concern about any deviation from 4/3 aspect ratio ... I use an Olympus E1 and E500 ... 4/3's system
The original intent of this thread was to try to find out if 800x600 pixel images posted on CNet could be linked to NPN (or loaded to a portfolio) and that question has been answered making it clear that any attempt to load a file larger than 640 pixels max "will be rejected". In short, if I want to create a portfilio on NPN in addition to my web presence on CNet I must create two different sizes of files to upload.
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5 repliesThe reason I need to know is because I've finally decided on an online photo host and they automatically size everything to be displayed on their site to 800x600dpi. This means that there's no point standardizing pictures at 720 on the long side as per NPN requirements because they are going to resize it to 800 on the long side anyway.
So I'm trying to find out if I would also need to resize every photo to NPN requirments should I decide to go ahead with an NPN portfolio as well. The reason I want a photo host in addition to NPN is because I want to be able to link individual photos to other sites and blogs. Can't do that from NPN Portfolios.
I'm not so presumsuous as to suppose that an online portfolio here or anywhere else will reap me tons of bussiness but I'm getting more and more requests from people who would like to see my work online. Some of these people (like the ones I meet on my canoe trips) I'm not likely to see again but they want to see my work and what I'm doing lugging ridiculous amounts of camera equipment around in the wilderness.
Bob
Bob
1. How are the images resized?
2. If they are resized, are they resampled?
3. If they are resampled, are they resharpened as well to compensate?
4. What settings are used to resharpen them?
5. What happens if your original image has proportions other than 4x3 - is one side streched or compressed to fit the 4x3 aspect ratio?
If you want your images to look their best then you need to stay in control of all this stuff, and not let it be done by a process you don't control or don't understand. If you spend time and effort deterining the proportions of any crop, selecting the correct amount of sharpening after resizing, and setting the amount of jpeg compression that maintains the look of you image why would you ever allow a web site host to screw around with evrything you've worked hard to get looking right? What am I missing in this?
Richard, I don't see that you are missing anything. It might help to be aware of the intended web host and that is CNet Networks. That should speak for itself but I appreciate your concern for the quality of even the pictures for web display, and that is why I will resize (to 800x600) and compress and sharpen myself. Another reason why I will not upload anything bigger than 800x600 pixels @ approx 150KB is to make them unusable to possible theaves (how do you spell that?).
As for your concern about any deviation from 4/3 aspect ratio ... I use an Olympus E1 and E500 ... 4/3's system
The original intent of this thread was to try to find out if 800x600 pixel images posted on CNet could be linked to NPN (or loaded to a portfolio) and that question has been answered making it clear that any attempt to load a file larger than 640 pixels max "will be rejected". In short, if I want to create a portfilio on NPN in addition to my web presence on CNet I must create two different sizes of files to upload.
Thankyou for your kind consideration,
Bob