Why are pictures so small?

[Mac Bentley]

I've asked this before but didn't get an answer. Pictures used to be big on this site, filled up the screen. All these little pictures posted now are no fun. Is this a site restriction or do posters do it on purpose?
Thanks, Mac

 

[Phil Herring]

Mac, are you referring to the forums, the classified ads, the owner mods, the owner photo album... ?

 

[Mac Bentley]

Forums. I read the 'new posts.'
Mac

 

[Phil Herring]

You're clicking on the small photos, right? That pops open a new screen with a large photo.

Photos that are uploaded to the server show a small thumbnail in the post and open larger, as described above. Some folks, Maine Sail, Tim R., among them, link to photos on other sites and those appear in the thread at full size.

 

[kpgraci]

I've NOT noticed that pics open larger when attached to forums, but they do in other parts of the site. This is why I usually use a link to photobucket if I want a more detailed pic to appear.

 

[Ed Schenck]

I have not noticed a change over the years. A picture like the one below has always opened to the same size. I don't have a photo website from where I can imbed the pictures in line. So I almost always use the "upload" feature below.

Maybe you are experiencing a change in your browser where the picture below does not open into a new and larger box when you click on it. Happened to me recently.

 

[kpgraci]

Well, now I'm NOT right, because you're attached picture does open larger when I click it.

Go figure.

 

[MrUnix]

The attachments *should* open up in a new window/tab and be larger. You may have your browser set to automatically shrink oversize images to fit the screen and clicking on the image will expand it (in firefox, the pointer turns into a magnifying glass with either a "+" or "-" in the middle). Having an external hosting site will allow you more possibilities, such as:

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Click on the little picture above and it will take you to a larger version hosted elsewhere. Or you can embed a full size image like this:

Which may or may not be scaled to fit the window depending on your browser. The image has also been added as an attachment. I have noticed that clicking on the attachment image will bring up a larger version, but not as large as the original for some reason.. it appears to limit the size. If some of these methods don't work, then I can only imagine it has something to do with the settings for your browser.

Cheers,
Brad

 

[Mac Bentley]

Here's a small one

Taken from another person's recent post. It's 640x480 pixels. About all the ones I've seen, 640 is the max, either horizontal or vertical. When uploading, it says 800 pixels is the max, but these aren't even getting that big.

 

[Ed Schenck]

The picture in your example above opens to 6" x 4" and is very clear. And that's the way it has always worked. "Properties" shows it to be 100+ by 100+ pixels.

 

[Mac Bentley]

Here's an example

Here's a picture, Winsome fleet, out of the owners' photos. It's 600x450 pixels.

I downloaded this photo a few years ago and it's on my hard drive at 1024x768 pixels. When I uploaded that one here, it's the second one, it's at 800x600 pixels.

 

[Mac Bentley]

Ed,
100x100 is probably the thumbnail.

 

[TingtingTan]

how to post the image bigger?