Request for another OSX user, a test please.

[Faustus]

Drag my avatar to the desktop and open it in preview. Is it really tiny? If so WTF?!?!?

[Faustus]

Anybody?

[thecoalman]

I'm on a pc so... I can't duplicate it. Maybe it's changing the dimensions? Maybe it's on its way for a smoke break and didn't get the whole image? I was purusing your FAQ, very amusing. If you want you can e-mail me the image on your comp and I'll compare them, my guess is that it is the same. Is there maybe a view setting for your preview? I was going to say preview window but I know how you Mac guys feel about windows.....

[redwudz]

I opened it in Panther on a 15" LCD and it's about 1/4". Tried a couple of others, including TGPO's and they were about 1". (I'm posting on the laptop, the G4 is in the other room.)

Edit: Only strange thing I see is that it shows as a 144K file, but the actual size is 285K?. The other avatars seem to have the file size and the actual size close to the same. I don't have a clue on that.

[galactica]

its saves over and opens up fine on mine

its "full size" and i can zoom and unzoom if i want.

not sure whats going on...... but unless you have lots of people giong to save your avatar pic then i dont see a problem

[Faustus]

Problem is it was made on a PC to be 80x80, but its tiny on my mac so it doesn't work as my logon icon or my ichat icon very well. Very strange stuff.
EDIT: Photoshop sees it at the correct size, but even if I resave the file it still shows up in preview and the OS as tiny. WTF!!1

[thecoalman]

Ahhhh, your preview is using the resolution info for display. Most software ignores this info and displays actual size except for printing. Your image has a resolution of 266, most images for the internet are 72 to 96. 72 because that was about the threshold for what older monitors could display and 96 because that is the threshold for most modern monitors. It won't show up on your browser because it ignores this info and uses the actual size. Probably a Mac thing since so many graphic artists use them. Just go into photoshop and change the resolution, it won't affect the image in any way.

Guess it was the user on a smoke break....hehe I'm still cracking up about that. Could you imagine a tech giving out that info to a consumer, It's on a break...rofl.

On the lighter side has anyone ever seen the exploding whale this is absoluley one of the funniest things I have ever seen. http://perp.com/whale/video.html

[Faustus]

Interesting. I resized it then just changed the pixels per inch down to 72, this however lowered the rez to 72x72, I switched it back to 80x80 and the P/I stayed at 72. Saved the file now it works. Very odd.

Thing is.. HOW did it end up like that to begin with? It was just a cropped image from Paintshop Pro on the PC.

[thecoalman]

If it was a scanned image that was the resolution it was scanned at. That's a odd size though, it's usually goes in increments of 50 or 100. But if you had an original image at 300 res then resized it in inches it would adjust the res to the correct ratio.

Also you lost data if it resized it to 72x72 when you changed the resolution, try just changing the resolution to retain the original image data. You should have an option for just formatting the resolution, or if your using format size select percentage at 100% or pixels at the original image size of 80x80. Most likley when you reformatted the reolution you had inches selected so it resized it. Not sure how your software works but it will have similar options. It should just change the resolution which has no affect on the actual dimensions. Always work in pixels unless your going to use the image for print.

Resolution is a pain in the ass to explain since it has no real bearing on the actual size, like I said before most software ignores it except when printing. It's really only used to set the scale of the image. For example if you set the resolution to 25 when you went to print it your going to get 25 pixels to an inch or in your case the image would display very large in your preview. It would look like crap but it would be big. Scanning is another application where it is used, the higher the res the more dots per inch......

Edit:

Interesting. I resized it then just changed the pixels per inch down to 72, this however lowered the rez to 72x72,

Just noticed this, you have to distinguish between resolution and actual size. Actual size is 80x80. It's the same image regardless of what the resolution is. Again most software ignores this info. It's only real use is for setting how much data a scanner gathers from a photo or for printing. Let's say you have a 3x3 photo, you scan it at 300 res (dpi). You now have an image at 300 dpi on your computer. You select print it will make an exact 3x3 copy of your image that you scanned because it knows that it has to print at scale of 300 res per inch. If you change just the resolution to 150 and select print it's going to print a 6x6 image.

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