Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> >From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >I think 400pixel is too small in today's standard, most people have 1024x768
> >monitor (at least for the photo fans), the image will be too small on the
> >monitor. I use 640-760 pixels and most file size around 90-120K.
>
> It all depends on your perceived market, no?
>
> A 120kB file will take 40 seconds to download over MOST phone lines. Even
> BEST CASE, assuming 56kbits, such a file will take over 21 seconds. Those of
> us with speedy DSL or cable access should not ignore that many people will be
> unwilling to wait that long.
>
May be I'm used to boardband for two years, but not long ago I was
still using 56Kb dial up modem and at that time the local News groups
limited the picture size to 100K to 150KB. I don't remember the time I
need to wait to see the image but 20-40 second is ok for me.
> (The WORST thing to do is to put arbitrarily-sized images on your site, then
> re-size them in the browser. Web authoring software sometimes encourages
> this.)
>
I never enable the resize "feature" on my web browser, I consider it a
bug rather than a feature, the resize quality is poor.
> It also depends on your goals. If you are selling your images, a 760-pixel
> image that someone downloads and prints for free is potential loss of
> revenue. Worse yet, it is easily poached for commercial purposes. It has a
> lot more value to thieves than a smaller image. OTOH, if you are simply
> putting them up there for folks to enjoy, and don't really care if it ends up
> as the background image on a porno site, make them as big as you like! :-)
>
I have never thing of selling my images, they are just for fun, there
are a lots of much better images on the net and many of them are with
size that I'm using and some even larger. I don't see it a problem, if
you worry your image will be stole just hind it inside your hard disk
and don't post it on the web. Even the image size is small, they can
copy your great idea and simulate it, they don't really need your
original file.
C.H.Ling
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