Chile Forum

We now have a photo Gallery. This is still very much in the testing phase to make sure it does not cause any problems.

Please resize your photos before posting. It will keep our bandwidth bill under control.

Also please let me know if any spammers should sneak in.

ONLY PHOTOS RELATED TO CHILE.

ONLY PHOTOS FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE

Charles,
Seems some of the pics have dissapeared.
Any thoughts as to why?

Please resize your photos before posting.

Charles , can you tell what will be the normal size or weight for the pictures to be uploaded...?

Thanks

Wouldn't it be a good idea to create a flickr allchile group? It'd also increase the awareness of the forum, and you'll also save resources.

That is exactly why this forum is here, so that Chile related topic stuff does not get swallowed up by some massive MSN/YAHOO/Google social networking monster that covers millions of different topics with billions of pages that have nothing to do with Chile. It turns Chile topics in to the needles in the haystack of the internet.

sorry, somehow missed this posting. The photo gallery will transform them on the fly. However if you try to upload say a photo that is 20 mb, you are going to have trouble. There are caps to control spammers and denial of service attacks. I think I set the upload size at 1 mb, but can not remember at the moment.

The gallery will automatically resize the photos to 600 wide by a variable height to keep proportions, and should come in at under about 200 kb per photo allowing for a lot more photos and faster load times. Quality is set at 80 compression for JPG

There is really not that many good reason I can think of for posting a photo on the internet over that size (at least that anyone will stick around and wait for it to download). It is completely possible to have 600 x 800 photo, that is around 200 kbs, and very little quality loss. Most data above that is just waisted data space, unless you are intending to print. In that case, the internet is the wrong place to go looking for high res photos for printing.

Charles,

I don't know how to resize a photo to include in a post that might be relevant, like other posters do. Is it simple? I'd like to have an avatar but don't know how to resize for that either.

Vicki

Mark,

Nothing fastidious about me...I will try the site first. As a last resort, I will PM you for help! Thanks so much!

Vicki