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pmillen:
All of my Windows computers have 16:9 aspect ratio screens.

It seems that lately, in almost every post that has photos, the photos exceed the screen size.  Of course there's a horizontal scroll bar but it's only available after the last photo.

I resize my photos so they fit and I'm assuming that most posters do too.  So I'm thinking that it's some setting on my screen or on LTBBQ.

What have I done wrong?

spuds:
Hold down control and scroll up or down with mouse wheel to adjust page size.

rexster314:
A lot of people are posting pics from their cell phone. If they're taking pics on fine settings the pics will be bigger than your screen.

Las Vegan Cajun:

--- Quote from: rexster314 on June 24, 2014, 04:21:43 PM ---A lot of people are posting pics from their cell phone. If they're taking pics on fine settings the pics will be bigger than your screen.

--- End quote ---

I'm guilty!!!   ::)

TentHunteR:

--- Quote from: pmillen on June 24, 2014, 03:50:19 PM ---I resize my photos so they fit and I'm assuming that most posters do too.
--- End quote ---

Not a safe assumption to make,  but it doesn't hurt to be sure your zoom size for LTBBQ isn't locked in at higher than 100%.

You can try Holding [Ctrl] down while scrolling with the mouse wheel (like Spuds suggests), or...

an easy keyboard shortcut to reset your zoom back to 100% is: [Ctrl] + 0  (Control + Zero).



Ironically, Tim and I were just talking about this subject a few evenings ago.  As a general rule of thumb:

640 X 480 is a good average size for most pics.

740 X 555 good size for money shots;  easy to view without being in-your-face big.

800 X 600 should be considered a good size limit for forums running the SMF engine (like LTBBQ).

Anything bigger and pics start getting uncomfortable to view, or start requiring scrolling which actually detracts from your photo.

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