The best way to upload a photo on CMON

[cleen X]

I was just wondering, what is the best way to upload a photo here and what is the maximum pixel width and height, image size, what fileformat (gif. jpeg etc), should I just upload from my computer or use photobucket and use url etc?
What do you guys do?
I know it all starts with taking good and clear pictures but I have had trouble with the pics looking worse after I upload them on CMON.

I would greatly appreciate any tips or just the way you do it if it works for you

 

[funnymouth]

stay away from jpeg - they get compression distortion.

 

[nels0nmac]

If I remember rightly if you upload an image the max width is 1200 pixels and the max size is 1Meg. The height can be whatever you like as long as hte image remains under 1Meg. Normal viewing on screen is 600 pixels wide but the new "magnify" feature that CA added recently allows images up to the larger 1200.

 

[No Such Agency]

You whippersnappers! I remember when the maximum was about 600 px wide, and only 100 kb. 100 kb is not much to squeeze in a decent view of a complex miniature! Sadly, as a result lots of great work posted early in the site's existence is represented only by very small images. And lots of mediocre work is represented by six separate postings of different view angles.

By the way, jpeg isn't so bad if you compress as little as possible. Even a 50% compression ratio can look just fine on some images (depending on complexity).

 

[SaintHax]

jpg is the common format professional photographers use for commercial previews, final internet viewing, and wedding/event images. TIF is normally supplied to high end/large printing and clients that want to heavily manipulate their images. Unless this site recompresses them (like MySpace does), you can get a high quality/low compression jpg that looks great.

 

[Chrome]

http://www.chromeminis.com/extgal/1680x1050show.jpg

This is a 600x2100px image. More than enough height to give a full 360 of a mini and with the amount of colour information on this you could almost double the length of it if you use a neutral background for the mini.

Oh, and it's 99k large and high def.

I was just wondering, what is the best way to upload a photo here and what is the maximum pixel width and height, image size, what fileformat (gif. jpeg etc), should I just upload from my computer or use photobucket and use url etc?
What do you guys do?
I know it all starts with taking good and clear pictures but I have had trouble with the pics looking worse after I upload them on CMON.

I would greatly appreciate any tips or just the way you do it if it works for you

600px is the width limit as stated, same with the 100k limit. beyond that you're pretty free to do whatever you want.
My recommendation is that you do not use photobucket to upload your pics, better to either upload them directly or buy yourself some space on a web hotel.

.JPEG is the most common format with the least destroying compression rate meaning most people will be able to see the pics and they will look good without taking up unnecessary space. You basically decide yourself whether a .JPEG looks good or not.

 

[Chrome]

After doing some reading on the site I realised that the upload size limit has been changed (Don't ask me when it was though) "Upload A Picture (Max 1024kb)"

That makes For really, really detailed pics if compressed right