I am having a difficult time with image size. I am saving my images in Photoshop at the sugggested less than 450 combined pixels. I then upload them into Vendio and they end up with a way less than 450 combined pixels.
Also, I am having a hard time figuring out why some of my images have the click to enlarge option while others do not.
If I may bother you further, I have seen other people's auction images fill the entire screen when you click to enlarge while mine do not seem to be much larger than they were before clicking on the enlarge button.
Could someone please tell me exactly how to make my image quality very good while at the same time having them come up quickly (immediately would be nice) while also having the option to click to enlarge?
posted on February 6, 2004 06:13:22 PM new
The "click to view larger version" option may be enabled or disabled by following these steps:
-Click on the "My Account" tab
-Click on the "Global Preference" link
-Check or uncheck the box for "Automatically scale down large images for faster download and cleaner presentation"
-Click "Save Preferences"
Please be aware that automatic resizing will -only- be activated if an image is over 250 pixels wide. If your image is 250 pixels wide or smaller, there will be no "click to view larger version" option on your auction listing.
Also note that you must copy and paste all of the code generated by our system into your auction if you are using image hosting only in order to take advantage of this feature.
posted on February 6, 2004 09:27:07 PM new
Hi dgfindings. Your image will display in vendio at whatever size you upload it, as long as you have the automatic resize feature disabled. There are 2 aspects to image size--what the visible dimensions are and what the file size is.
Since the web is a very low resolution endeavor you can show even large pictures with low file sizes using photoshop and get a good picture that fills the screen if you want it to. Photoshop is really good at "optimizing" (shrinking the file size) for web display.
In photoshop, set your image at the image size you want it to display or the size you want the enlargement to be on the enlargement page as the people see it. Don't worry about the number of pixels. Just set the maximum width or height in pixels for whatever you want. The image may not look very big right after that step in photoshop but it will be okay in the next step.
Then in the file menu select "save for web". Photoshop will bring the picture up the full size it will appear on the web so you can confirm that is what you want. (if you want it bigger or smaller, just hit cancel up in the right hand corner, go back and reset the image size from the image menu, and re-choose the file--> save to web).
When you have it up in the save for web screen, then look under the picture to the lower left and it will give you the file size in kilobytes (KB, Kb, kb etc). Up in the right corner there is a small-medium large-maximum drop down menu, and also a slider for % . Either of those will allow you to to increase or decrease the number of Kb per image and watch what that does to the quality of the image right before your eyes (the kb number will also change under the picture). When you are happy with the Kb and the image quality combination name it in the box on that screen and save it.
Vendio allows enormous file sizes to be uploaded (as much as 350kb per image) but the more the kb the slower the image loads into your description. For fast uploading to image hosting and fast nearly instant loading into your listings try to keep your images under 50kb each or under 75-100 if they are really big. Then if you want a smaller click-to-enlarge picture, just go back and enable the auto resize default in your vendio settings. Let photoshop and vendio do the work for you. As a reference, the pics in my listings are either 500 pixels max ht or width, or 550 pixels max width, but they all are 28-39 kb or less. A 500-550 pixel width fills up about 1/2 or a little more of my inner template area.
