Image scale when uploading

[The Hat]

Hi all!

I'm new to the forum and was wanting to upload some photos after editing them in Gimp.

The problem is when i work on them the images look best at 50% size but when i upload them they revert to 100% and look to big.

eg. The window around other people's pictures in a gallery have more grey space but mine take up almost the whole screen!

How can i fix this?

Cheers
Adrian

[PegaZus]

I believe what is happening is that your 100% sized picture fits the CMON minimums so the site displays it at 100%. If you really want it smaller, I would just resize the picture to 50% when you are done editing.

The other way, if you want to have the larger view available as a click through would be to make the final picture be at the max size allowed, but it would still probably display at the 100% size that you don't like.

And sorry, I don't have those exact size values right off hand (on the couch with a phone browser right now).

[atgill]

Well, I think PegaZus made it very clear...

Other way is to download some picture that in your opinion fits well in the screen. Open it with your editing software, look for its dimensions in pixels and set your pictures to that size before uploading.

[The Hat]

Thanks for the the advice guys. I worked out the problem with help from atgill. It turns out after looking at some other pics on coolmini that mine were set to almost double the width!

[ManakinRex]

Nice 'quick tips' I was wondering this myself. Thanks all (and OP for asking in the first place

[nels0nmac]

As far as I am aware, in general the standard window that pics are displayed at is 600 pixels wide. So if you crop/resize your images to that size that is how they will appear on CMoN. You can upload wider images - up to 1200 pixels wide but the viewer will need to click on the image with the magnifying icon to see the larger image.