quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Nothing has changed on my end in the forum software. The only thing that has changed is the maximum display width. But that's a browser instruction. It leaves the original image alone, it doesn't physically resize it. So in short, nothing has changed in the way the forum handles images except that it tells your browser to never show the image wider than 1800px - but again, that doesn't make any changes to the original image (you can test that by right clicking on the image, and choose "display image in new tab/window").

Cliff, when I do exactly what you've suggested I try... the results are exactly what I've previously reported. I right click on my image in This post, I select "Open image in new tab"... and in the new tab, it states the image dimensions to be 1920x2567. When I then right click the image and select "Save image as", it downloads a 447 KB image. Keep in mind, this uploaded image was originally 6843 KB with dimensions of 3088x4128... just as I earlier reported.

The forum does indeed appear to be resizing uploaded images. In my example above, my image has been resized from 3088x4128 to 1920x2567.

I don't understand how you're seeing something completely different. I'm doing all this on a Windows 10 PC using the Google Chrome browser.

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quote Originally posted by Patrick Here: The image file sizes in the opening post are were... 4032x3024... each about 3.7 MB

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Yes, images larger than 1920px wide are indeed sized down to 1920px wide.

Okay great, we're now both on the same page about that. I'm still puzzled by the following though...

quote Originally posted by Patrick Here: Wait wait wait... something isn't making sense here. If that was indeed the case, why were the huge images originally uploaded to the opening post replaced by icons... and when they were clicked on and opened, and then downloaded, they were still the original huge size. (It's unfortunate they're not still available to demonstrate that.)

Is that possibly due to those images perhaps being hosted somewhere other than the PFF server, and then being linked to from there in the opening post? Would those images be treated differently by the forum software in that situation... ie displaying icons instead of images?


[EDIT] Alright, I answered my own question. The first image below is linked directly to the website it originally appears on. The forum software has not altered it in any manner. It has not been resized (from 2560x1440), and the file size remains the same (737 KB). I'll make the assumption that if the image file size had been larger than 2 MB, that the image would've been represented by an icon here instead of by the image itself (as had occurred in the opening post). The second image was downloaded to my PC, and then uploaded to the PFF server. It has been automatically resized (to 1920x1080) by the forum software, and the file size has also therefore become smaller (now 284 KB). And to be clear, everything I've stated about these two images has nothing to do with how they're displayed here. As Cliff has stated, the maximum display width is now 1800 pixels.






Okay, let's see some ignition lock cylinder innards!

[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 06-25-2024).]

quote Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: This image looks like it's part of a scene from a horror movie. I want to see more... haha...

Careful what you ask for. You do not want to see the inside!

It's one of my parts cars that I had a tarp over. I peeled the tarp back, and this is what I saw. My neighbors love me.




I just realized that mirror (and probably the one on the other side) is in better looking condition than the mirrors currently on my Formula.

[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 06-26-2024).]