Tip for Resizing Photos on RC

dja1980 · 02/19/2016, 11:10 AM

I'm sure many of you already know this, but I learned something new yesterday, and I figured I'd share!

Back in the day of point and shoot digital cameras, we had to copy the photos from our camera's storage to a PC, resize them if needed, and upload them to an online photo storage site for hotlinking to RC. Now we're in a day and age where most people use their smartphones as their everyday camera. This is great because with automatic backup, your photos are already online and ready to be shared. However, most phones back the photos up in high resolution. It's because of this that when they're hotlinked to RC, we have to scroll to see the entire photo.

I'm an Android user, and I use Google Photos as my primary gallery app as well as automatic backup. I use the High Quality backup setting, which gives me free unlimited storage, but has the potential to reduce size from the original if your phone has a very high MP camera. When I look at MY backed up photos online, this creates photos that are 4320 x 2432... way too big to post on RC without having to scroll. However, when I right-click and "copy image address" (Chrome) on a photo in one of my shared folders, it gives me a URL that resizes the photo to 1740 x 979 based on the size it's being displayed in my browser at the given time (fully expanded)... this is still slightly too big to avoid scrolling when I view RC on my PC.

I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to find out if I can resize the photos using the online editor, but it doesn't appear that you can (at least with Google Photos). When searching online, the only advice I could find was to download the photos to your PC, resize them, and then upload them again... seems like a lot of extra work when photos are already available online to share. So, after studying the long URL I copied and pasted to RC, I noticed that there are size attributes at the very end of it (see below). I tried manually changing them, and sure enough it work!

I'm guessing there are several other easy methods people use to resize their pictures... and again, I'm sure many others already know about this... but I figured a few of you might find this helpful...

xxxxhttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aiSCPf2clGWr0lBf-K0s9ZYn668ePta_iGra7D6qgwa8yk1cQt4BMTsn1YFN_sQy4LOhPCbbWhtn_HIhanikg4j5UCeScPy-9YlctNDbQCb4eD11SkAOqoGMVmGfc5fi39-D-lNYmHTGVHRxl216xP7QGlyAj3YQMgDNJKliLqZTnFYlIHduy2v0duIBSvaZ_1rcmcIUs-V35Clcu2iXzcnC-ne0XRHuIRyJstmBCNBWZk9jZLJpBwFdpfZkV0ygXzCwfphCqdtXIJwUp1fMlh3nCmwKLneN0kHq23CTXFJk8cwVYdKvF9GuZe7UI wQgjZ2JTOqRopXqbKVsWGKxmjdE7NdI2vR8y5pxUB0gxFxXEYx_SvCsh6mmZf-kLLgh0bO6UMGUM4w54dB9BLfXW73TsiYsGCoi6BUmQH_pupbG1y-KTRbeYpdKT1qR9iwuDYb62gMBOq8AxvFBSAAb_ylp0ixc3lNOhuDmItrblXlnxrnj5TteaKw3XXSMrniAD5xj5HNyqXPEXQ9eNSs 5Clwbg5cyrNDLoajsIzSzPOG9gPLSiqDlNBxjH-TlrJJ71vVq=w1740-h979-no

Same URL with manually modified size attributes...

Using w4320-h2432...

Using w1740-h979...

Using w1080-h608 (25% original)...

dja1980 · 02/24/2016, 11:03 AM

Even better would be if RC supported this, but it appears they do not...

http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=10

If this were supported, we'd be able to use size attributes within the image tag...

[img=100x50]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]

happyhourhero · 02/24/2016, 11:32 AM

I hardly use this site any more except for reference due to the picture issues.

02/19/2016, 11:10 AM	#1
dja1980 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sycamore, IL Posts: 1,375	Tip for Resizing Photos on RC I'm sure many of you already know this, but I learned something new yesterday, and I figured I'd share! Back in the day of point and shoot digital cameras, we had to copy the photos from our camera's storage to a PC, resize them if needed, and upload them to an online photo storage site for hotlinking to RC. Now we're in a day and age where most people use their smartphones as their everyday camera. This is great because with automatic backup, your photos are already online and ready to be shared. However, most phones back the photos up in high resolution. It's because of this that when they're hotlinked to RC, we have to scroll to see the entire photo. I'm an Android user, and I use Google Photos as my primary gallery app as well as automatic backup. I use the High Quality backup setting, which gives me free unlimited storage, but has the potential to reduce size from the original if your phone has a very high MP camera. When I look at MY backed up photos online, this creates photos that are 4320 x 2432... way too big to post on RC without having to scroll. However, when I right-click and "copy image address" (Chrome) on a photo in one of my shared folders, it gives me a URL that resizes the photo to 1740 x 979 based on the size it's being displayed in my browser at the given time (fully expanded)... this is still slightly too big to avoid scrolling when I view RC on my PC. I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to find out if I can resize the photos using the online editor, but it doesn't appear that you can (at least with Google Photos). When searching online, the only advice I could find was to download the photos to your PC, resize them, and then upload them again... seems like a lot of extra work when photos are already available online to share. So, after studying the long URL I copied and pasted to RC, I noticed that there are size attributes at the very end of it (see below). I tried manually changing them, and sure enough it work! I'm guessing there are several other easy methods people use to resize their pictures... and again, I'm sure many others already know about this... but I figured a few of you might find this helpful... xxxxhttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aiSCPf2clGWr0lBf-K0s9ZYn668ePta_iGra7D6qgwa8yk1cQt4BMTsn1YFN_sQy4LOhPCbbWhtn_HIhanikg4j5UCeScPy-9YlctNDbQCb4eD11SkAOqoGMVmGfc5fi39-D-lNYmHTGVHRxl216xP7QGlyAj3YQMgDNJKliLqZTnFYlIHduy2v0duIBSvaZ_1rcmcIUs-V35Clcu2iXzcnC-ne0XRHuIRyJstmBCNBWZk9jZLJpBwFdpfZkV0ygXzCwfphCqdtXIJwUp1fMlh3nCmwKLneN0kHq23CTXFJk8cwVYdKvF9GuZe7UI wQgjZ2JTOqRopXqbKVsWGKxmjdE7NdI2vR8y5pxUB0gxFxXEYx_SvCsh6mmZf-kLLgh0bO6UMGUM4w54dB9BLfXW73TsiYsGCoi6BUmQH_pupbG1y-KTRbeYpdKT1qR9iwuDYb62gMBOq8AxvFBSAAb_ylp0ixc3lNOhuDmItrblXlnxrnj5TteaKw3XXSMrniAD5xj5HNyqXPEXQ9eNSs 5Clwbg5cyrNDLoajsIzSzPOG9gPLSiqDlNBxjH-TlrJJ71vVq=w1740-h979-no Same URL with manually modified size attributes... Using w4320-h2432... Using w1740-h979... Using w1080-h608 (25% original)...

02/24/2016, 11:32 AM	#3
happyhourhero Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Pensacola, FL Posts: 383	I hardly use this site any more except for reference due to the picture issues. __________________ Zack Current Tank Info: 65 gal mixed reef.

02/24/2016, 11:03 AM	#2
dja1980 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sycamore, IL Posts: 1,375	Even better would be if RC supported this, but it appears they do not... http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=10 If this were supported, we'd be able to use size attributes within the image tag... [img=100x50]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]