Mod Post: Recommended Maximum Page Width
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scans_dailyGreetings one and all,
With the prevalence of digital comics, especially in light of current events regarding access to physical comics, the size of comic page images used as scans has increased significantly of late.
Currently the width and height of a single posted page can be somewhere around 2000 pixels by 3000 pixels, which is very, very large in most situations.
This, in conjunction smaller screened devices now being common, and Dreamwidths recent addition of default image shrinking, means that images can be either too small to read, or so large they swamp any reasonably sized screen with the click of a mouse/tap of a finger.
This has led to several members mentioning that it was becoming hard for them to read posts.
So, moving forward, we're recommending a maximum posting width of 900 pixels for a single page.
By this we mean the source image itself, rather than a larger image being displayed at that size using Dreamwidths image display controls, as this appears to cause some issues with image hosts, and the type of link used when shared on Dreamwidth.
With the ready availability of image editing programs which can be used to shrink pages without significant loss of quality, it should not be an insurmountable issue for our posters here. (Personally, I'm partial to paint.net, a free image editing software for Windows, which also allows images to be saved at a slightly lower resolution which means they are much smaller in memory size too, but if anyone has recommendations for other OS they'd care to share, that would be great)
Exceptions will be made for things like double page spreads, or significantly larger magazine formats etc, but even with these, please bear in mind that the wider they are, the trickier they might be for other people to read.
Please note that this isn't a "Set in Stone" rule as yet, this is a guideline, and the Mod Team will monitor how well it's doing, and track any unforseen issues which might crop up of it as a result, both those we notice ourselves and those which are highlighted to us. This is a new area for us too, so we'll all learn as we go.
Please also note that you won't be penalised for not following this new guideline, but we hope that consideration for fellow members will encourage posters to follow it.
With the prevalence of digital comics, especially in light of current events regarding access to physical comics, the size of comic page images used as scans has increased significantly of late.
Currently the width and height of a single posted page can be somewhere around 2000 pixels by 3000 pixels, which is very, very large in most situations.
This, in conjunction smaller screened devices now being common, and Dreamwidths recent addition of default image shrinking, means that images can be either too small to read, or so large they swamp any reasonably sized screen with the click of a mouse/tap of a finger.
This has led to several members mentioning that it was becoming hard for them to read posts.
So, moving forward, we're recommending a maximum posting width of 900 pixels for a single page.
By this we mean the source image itself, rather than a larger image being displayed at that size using Dreamwidths image display controls, as this appears to cause some issues with image hosts, and the type of link used when shared on Dreamwidth.
With the ready availability of image editing programs which can be used to shrink pages without significant loss of quality, it should not be an insurmountable issue for our posters here. (Personally, I'm partial to paint.net, a free image editing software for Windows, which also allows images to be saved at a slightly lower resolution which means they are much smaller in memory size too, but if anyone has recommendations for other OS they'd care to share, that would be great)
Exceptions will be made for things like double page spreads, or significantly larger magazine formats etc, but even with these, please bear in mind that the wider they are, the trickier they might be for other people to read.
Please note that this isn't a "Set in Stone" rule as yet, this is a guideline, and the Mod Team will monitor how well it's doing, and track any unforseen issues which might crop up of it as a result, both those we notice ourselves and those which are highlighted to us. This is a new area for us too, so we'll all learn as we go.
Please also note that you won't be penalised for not following this new guideline, but we hope that consideration for fellow members will encourage posters to follow it.
