Re: [OT] ideal file size of a jpeg or gif image

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"James Brook" <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor wrote:
> >
> > Legally, they have to have permission to use them, whether or not he
says
> > they have to ask permission.
>
> But my point is they can't say they didn't know as it is clearly stated
> on the image.

Are you telling me that a large state government body such as State Rail
does not have a legal section to advise them of the Copyright Act 1968 (as
amended), particularly since there is a copyright notice on the page itself?
Are you saying that they are so think that they might think that because
there is no copyright notice on the pic itself, then they can do what they
like with it? I don't think so.

But then, given your stubbornness over publishing photos that you want to
publish (and everyone else on the net has to adjust their computers to fit
in with you, rather than vice versa) this is not surprising.

(Everyone else, excuse the above - those who know me know that I do not
suffer fools gladly, and I call a spade a spade.)

> > Since a lot of computers also support much higher resolutions, will you
(and
> > other photographers) start making your images bigger, on the basis that
most
> > people can support them? Like it or not, 800 x 600 is the net standard,
and
> > until that changes, you will be the odd person out. What beats me is why
do
> > people publish things in a non-standard format? They obviously want
people
> > to look at them (why publish it otherwise) yet they do everything
possible
> > to make it hard.
>
> I run my monitor in 800x600 and this is exactly why I have published
> them at 900x600. This means people can easily use them as Windows
> backgrounds without losing any quality. They will also stretch to
> 1024x768 backgrounds without losing much quality. It's not that hard to
> change resolutions if you really want to see the entire photo without
> saving it. It only takes about 30 seconds to right click on the desktop,
> go to properties and then settings to change the resolution. I'm not
> sure about Win95 A, but with the B release you can also display the
> settings icon on your task bar. This gives you a menu with available
> resolutions when you click on it. This is very fast, easy and doesn't
> even require the minimisation of your application.

Ummm, so you are telling me that people have to change their computers
settings in order to view your pics?????

Ooooookay.

I might just bypass your pics - I know a lot of people who alrady do so -
until you lose some of your arrogance.

Perhaps you should speak to some professional website designers. Anyone who
designs websites would be laughed at for suggetsing that visitors to the
site should have to adjust their screen resolutions to view non-standard
pages.

Dave