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Sep 26, 2014 12:37 PM CST
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
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Paul,
Nothing wrong here either. I love all your photos so don't stop posting because of one person. I think you have a very big fan club on this site and if you stop posting pictures you might cause a riot! Hilarious!

Seriously, your pictures are welcome especially on those long gray days of winter. Big Grin
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Sep 26, 2014 1:33 PM CST
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Name: Kent Pfeiffer
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I may be wrong, but based on my own experience, I don't believe there is such a thing as a "correct size" for the pictures. How well the pictures are displayed depends on which computer I use. My wife's iPad generally does the best job and the old computer with the 17 inch monitor we let the kids have does the worst. Shrug!
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Sep 26, 2014 3:14 PM CST
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
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Depends on individual settings, too. I noticed that a lot of times I'll have to scroll down to see all of the photo, but if I use the "zoom out" feature on my browser, I can see the whole photo at once.
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Sep 26, 2014 3:37 PM CST
Name: Connie
Willamette Valley OR (Zone 8a)
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Like Lynn, I can usually guess which photos are Paul's before I look. Keep them coming, Paul!
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Oct 1, 2014 10:08 AM CST
JC NJ/So FL (Zone 7b)
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since all my photos are from the digital camera they are quite large for upload 3-4meg, so i resize all of them. you can use e.g. ms pic manager to do that or paint or other utilities. there are 2 numbers width and length(pixels) that gives you the dimension - i roughly reduce the size percentage wise so that the width comes below 1000 pixels. that reduces the pic size anywhere from 300 - 600kb. usually it is advisable to keep the pic size below 1meg (1meg=1000kbytes) so that people can view it on small screens: it downloads faster. some people have slow inet connections too - keeping the size smaller speeds up viewing. also when the screen is small and pic is oversized - you'll need to scroll right/bottom to see the whole pic. and then when you can't see the whole pic at once the whole effect is lost so to speak.
of course you don't want to make it so-o small, that you can't see much detail either.
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Oct 1, 2014 10:16 AM CST
JC NJ/So FL (Zone 7b)
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i find that multi-plan photos taken on the street or where plants are unlabeled take a lo-ong time to research.
very often i can get away with just generic tags, but sometimes i don't even have any idea what some of the plants are.
it would be cool if smbody else tried to identify them. of course, i can open a comment and ask, but i think that photo comments are not read enough to be useful for that.
so when i have a lot of unknown plants in the pic - i just don't post it until i manage to get closer to identifying them at least in generic terms. now, to id cultivars of most landscaping plants is almost impossible unless they are very unique.
i could say smth like 'large purple' or 'dwarf red', but i feel kinda silly to post that.
i had an idea: i can post a multi on my blog together with more close-ups of individual groups of plants for detail. and then even individual pics of some plants. so you can view it as a group and at the same time see each plant clearly.
that should help in terms of landscaping choices, i think.
but it would be really nice if we can group multi-plant photos somehow for searching purposes into sub-categories.

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