Shane, I thank you for removing the very onerous 500kb and 5 picture limits.

Wow! That's a pretty generous limit on image size. Thanks!!!!!! It will be super handy when detail is needed for some discussions. The only concern I have is if people don't do their own image downsampling to control size, that too many images are going to default to something that needlessly takes up the whole screen. I use a lot of images on the internet, so I keep 3 basic sizes in mind as I process those images before upload.

The basic sizes I use by default are:

For general images: 3.5" @ 150 dpi = 525 pixels wide
For large format: 4.5" @ 150 dpi = 675 pixels wide
For high detail instructions: 6" @ 150 dpi = 900 pixels wide (and these are rare)

I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth. This is something I have asked for in the past, but I was wondering if there was a way to set the default server-side downsampling to 640 pixels, but the user could click a check box if they actually wanted or needed the full 1280 pixels. (kind of like an acknowledgment that they were about to post a very large picture, just in case they didn't realize it--especially because they can't preview the image, which is why I keep editing this same posting.  )

For example, the default image size I use in manuals is 3.5" @ 300 dpi, and this is how they appear in print or Adobe Acrobat, but if I accidentally upload one of these without dropping it down to the 150 dpi (525 pixels), web browsers do not recognize the image dimension 3.5" and go strictly by pixel count, so the image takes up the whole screen and most people have to scroll horizontally to see the whole thing. This is something I try to avoid, but many people are not accustomed to dealing with images as much as others.

Just to try this out as an example, I will upload one of the Kapex images. This one is 3.75" @300 dpi = 1125 pixels, which is still below the 1280 limit.

It is not so bad when it is a thumbnail, but when they are not thumbnails, it can be cumbersome. P.S. This is not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. With some forum software, a wide image in one posting will force people to scroll horizontally to read the text in the entire thread. At least with the SMF software, you only need to scroll the image, not the whole posting.

Alex, the code was written by someone else but based on my understand it will only resize as needed.  I don't know the default compression setting for JPGs that it resizes but I uploaded several images as tests and I would say the quality was still quite high.

Hey Rick, that's a great picture and I don't mind scrolling it in order to see the detail.

By the way, I am looking at it on a small netbook computer with a 10 inch screen.

Thanks! I also appreciate the photo because I've had the Kapex for some time now and it never occurred to me that that groove could take a clamp!

Wonder what else I've missed 

Shane,

Thanks for making this change.  There has been a few times when I wanted to post a picture but did not know how to resize.  Computers and cameras are just not something that I have learned very much, as of yet.

JJ

MFT/800.  It's square.