Hi Duane,
Thanks for the props.
I have, for the last year or so, made my postable images 900-wide in landscape and 750-wide in portrait.
Most of the filesizes range in the 200-300kb area, which, if you have broadband, is no big deal. If you don't then you are waiting.....
But, I find that I am not letting the tail wag the dog. My livelihood depends upon clarity and the larger images show just that. (They come out of the camera at 3200-pixels wide uncropped).
Soon I will upconvert to 1024 wide for posting. It's time.
One problem is fitting all the image in the browser window. There is no getting around it in portrait mode, unless you size it down. The computer screen has menu bars above and below, and so the viewable area is really a comparatively narrow and wide space. Most new monitors are offering 'widescreen' which ascerbates this problem. Compare that to the wishes of Magazine publishers who print much of their work in portrait mode, making room for columns.
I love the look of a great portrait image, but it isn't as well-suited for the web.
And, having said all that, it is all dependent upon the viewer's screen resolution anyway.
I am using 1920x1200!
:thumbup:
Coop