Anyone know how to control the display size of an image?

I posted this elsewhere but thought someone here might know the answer ....


I tried an experiment today. I uploaded an image that I'd saved at three different sizes - 800 pixels wide, 1000 & 1600. But they all displayed in the message at the same width, with various degrees of compression.

With my SLR camera I shoot RAW files which are pretty big (~25Mb) and use Photoshop Elements to convert them to JPEGs and to resize (usually to 1000 pixel width) which usually reduces the actual file size to between 500 - 1000kb.

The reason I'm asking about controlling the display size is that there's little point in carefully reducing images to 1000 pixels wide if the forum software then displays them at an unknown size (but considerably bigger than that) and adds a load of 'noise' in the process.

I've looked at the HTML (or Javascript) behind an image (using right-click then Inspect) but can't find the display size anywhere, plus I'm really struggling to understand the code.

 

I just post Jpegs as already stated, but then I dont mess around with pictures in anyway, what you see is what it was.

 

I've found if the images are much too big then the forum will reject them.

 

I've seldom had problems with my photos that I've uploaded. The only problem I see from time to time is that the file names are sometimes too long & I have to shorten them before they can be uploaded!
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Just me being a perfectionist. Typical camera nerd

 

Because the JPEG only needs to be the size needed for on-line display and it's easier to just create bespoke ones when the need arises. The smallest JPEG that the camera creates is 2592 pixels wide & 2MB in size, whereas I usually create one no bigger than 1000 pixels wide and therefore within the usual forum file-size restrictions. I think of the RAW file as the digital negative from which I then make 'prints' according to requirements. To be honest I enjoy doing the conversion manually plus any required adjustments. Once you have an established 'workflow', it can be done in less than 1 minute.

See ..... told you I was a nerd

 

When I first joined this forum I had a few problems and was advised to resize to 800 x 600 pixel and that I have done since then and had no further problems. There have been changes to the forum software/setup since then. So do I still need to, no idea. However that size works well for me here and on other forums and media. I can always crop to highlight the flower and then resize. If someone wanted a bigger image then they could ask and I could email the original, never happened though.