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BurgRider
Posts: 1597 - Karma: 17
I've never uploaded an image to NS until just a few minutes ago and it told me my image was to large (size over 100k). Im a ColdFusion programmer and I know that ColdFusion has a function that can take any image and reisze it to within given specifications while still maintaining constaints. I know that NS isnt ColdFusion isnt it PHP? I would think that PHP would also have some function to resize images as well. That would be nice if the site could automatically resize images. Just a thought
Sep 30 2006 2:30PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
I don't think NS is php actually.

As for the image thing...

Photoshop is where it is at for resizing for internet.
Oct 1 2006 9:56AM
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BurgRider
Posts: 1597 - Karma: 17
if it isnt php what is it?

Photoshop is ok for resizing but Fireworks is much better for resizing. I think it compress's it a lot nicer.
Oct 1 2006 12:29PM
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nothanks
Posts: 13551 - Karma: 31
NS was php I know that for a fact. Last re-do and re-adressing I don't know where it's at now.
Oct 1 2006 1:07PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Eh, I might be thinking back to the old days possibly.

Sometimes I am wrong.
Oct 2 2006 6:05PM
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bacon.
Posts: 12 - Karma: 10
NS still uses PHP scripts, but as for the uploading forms I have no idea what they are.
Oct 2 2006 7:11PM
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Justo8484
Posts: 3905 - Karma: 206
sure, you can write script to resize an image, but thats not what the NS size limit is. in fact, you can resize an image easy enough with plain old html. pixels are not the same as Kb my friend. i'd imagine it would be quite a task to write a script to compress an image's file size down to 100k.
Oct 4 2006 1:50AM
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BurgRider
Posts: 1597 - Karma: 17
Thats what I mean. let me rephrase what I said it can compress the images while still maintaining height and size
Oct 4 2006 3:57PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
Hey guys,

I think we are totally going to do this.

The problem is that images that come from modern digital cameras are multiple megs in size. NS Only accepts images smaller than 100k. Which means you have to resize every image before you upload it.

NS does us PHP, and PHP does have functions to manipulate images. We use this technique in the new picture gallery to create the thumbnails.

I'd like to upgrade the gallery to accept images as big as 5Meg, which would then be saved to a smaller version for use on the site. It would keep images loading quickly, and would be much easier to use than the current picture gallery. 

~Paul
Oct 4 2006 5:48PM
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Itsbackfliptime
Posts: 18901 - Karma: 75
not sure if this would go over well on NS but if you could tag images facebook style I think that would be kinda neat.

If you don't know what I'm talking about its like this. You upload the picture, then you click on the picture where there is a person and mark a user. So then you could click like "View pictures of User" and see all the pictures other people have uploaded of them.
Oct 4 2006 8:02PM
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BurgRider
Posts: 1597 - Karma: 17
That would actually make things load a lot faster and it would keep server space down as well
Oct 8 2006 12:41PM
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Schoening
Posts: 14332 - Karma: 1,268
definatly like the idea of not having to change the size of images
Oct 8 2006 2:15PM
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Silence
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definitely agree with not having to resize images whilst everything still remaining fast
Oct 9 2006 4:43AM
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