Comments on: Your galleries

By: Hanneke

Hanneke — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:44:56 +0000

For Emilyrln: thanks for the tip about the Simplicity pattern, I didn’t know them yet. I’ve been having fun looking at their pattern for historical lothing, trying to adapt the ideas to make some clothes for grandma’s old pottery-headed doll. She’s mine now, since grandma died last year just after her 100th birthday. I’d made her a dress when I was about twelve (she only had a tattered old white apron left) but that was falling apart, so I decided to make her some more clothes in a style appropriate to grandma’s childhood, and the line-drawings of some of the Simplicity patterns have helped with seeing how to construct those.

For Jane: I’m glad to hear you had a good time, got home safe and are getting off fairly lightly from the swine flu: please take good care of yourselves.

A colleague helped me to change the lilacs-picture to 1000 pixels in png, and that seems to have helped. I then tried to change the CC-scetches to 1000 pixels wide in png, and that looked a bit better readable than in jpg, but those wouldn’t upload. Mostly when it doesn’t upload I get a warning that there are too many pixels (1200 across is too much, even if the file is quite small), but the CC2 and CC3 png-pages didn’t trigger any warning, they just made my gallery page stay blank, and then weren’t uploaded. So I’m sorry but those remain very badly readable.
Maybe next week my colleague can help me get the bird-picture sharper in png as well; for the rose it hasn’t made much difference that I can see.

Also, about this blog-site: at the top right some things are showing not quite the way I think you intended:
- the important notice has 4 list-spots in front of it’s lines (1 at the beginning, and 1 in front of ‘Copyright’, ‘noted’ and ‘Thanks’), and those lines come down across the Blog101 an Links-items in the menu-tabs below it.
- The menu-tab ‘Your galleries’ is half-hidden behind the ‘Log in’ header.

And a question: when I’m logged in, I have sometimes seen a list of subscribers that I can click on to view their galleries, but it doesn’t consistently show up when I’m in the ‘Your galleries’ page, and I’m wondering how I can always get to that list?

By: kokipy

kokipy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:26:41 +0000

I just posted a few cat pictures.

By: mmberry

mmberry — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:37:42 +0000

I removed a hawk photo and uploaded a recent photo of Houdini & Khan. The kitten (5.5 months) is not quite as large as Khan (10.5 years). Houdini is not going to be my Bitty Boy much longer, his nickname will have to be Big Foot!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:31:40 +0000

I would suggest that you try resizing in one step to, say, 1000 pixels in the largest dimension, then saving as a png rather than jpg. It will give you a larger file size (but you’re supposed to be able to upload a 2M file, so that shouldn’t be a problem.) But png is just a better compression format than even the best jpg, and programs usually default to about a 20% compression. Most programs will let you do that.

Hopefully that will help. I’d love to see these in more detail!

By: emilyrln

emilyrln — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:17:28 +0000

I love your cross-stitch, both the image and the sentiment! And what a cute kitty! :DD <3

By: emilyrln

emilyrln — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:15:30 +0000

Thank you! The pattern is Simplicity 4092. Your patchwork quilt is incredible—I simply cannot imagine pieceing it by hand! My mom makes quilts by machine (both the pieceing of the blocks and the quilting), although she did one quilt with hand quilting… and said never again! It took ages!
Your dimensional paper pictures are likewise amazing—again, a level of patience I haven’t found in myself where it comes to paper folding/quilling/embossing projects. I do make cards for birthdays/etc for friends, but nothing with that extent of detail and care :)
As for picture blurriness, I’m unfamiliar with either program, but I’d advise doing any resizing all at once, not in stages. I have a feeling that might help… Sorry I can’t be of more help! :(

By: hanneke28

hanneke28 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:17:52 +0000

Hi! Emilyrln, your dress is gorgeous! Where did you find a pattern for it? Or did you have to make the pattern yourself?
I’ve put up some pictures in my gallery.
Request for technical advice, please. They were 2,5 – 6,5 MB to start, and when I reduced them to less than 2000 pixels across they were about 500-600 kB, but still wouldn’t load.
So I reduced them to 700 pixels across by saving them that way in Irfan view, and now they have loaded correctly, and are about 65 kB apiece. But now they seem a bit blurred or vague, even without zooming in on the details. Is there a way to keep the picture sharper when reducing it?
I usually use Irfan view for looking at digital photographs, but have access to Microsoft photo editor if that works better.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:41:52 +0000

You have to be a bit careful. 2MB and 2mil pixels are the limits. I just do pngs of an image about 700 by 700 pixels and it works fine. You can go larger, but I know those go up without any trouble.

By: aelith

aelith — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:48:04 +0000

Oh! beautiful dress. Wish I had a picture of my last medieval costume for SCA.

By: aelith

aelith — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:44:31 +0000

I have one new pic. on my gallery. I tried to up load four at one time but I guess they were too big. only the first one made it.