"someone" wrote in message
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While everybody's photos are nice, and that's why we look at them,
nevertheless I find myself drawn to the ones that are less than 500 kb in
size. Padraig's "Rufous Hummer" is only 144 Kb, and loads very quickly,
for
those of us with dial-up and other slower computers.And it's a
fantastically
clear photo, and fits into my monitor with only a little moving R/L or
Up/Down.

Photos of over 1 Mb are usually ignored by me because they are, frankly,
far
too large to fit on my monitor, so I have to do a lot of scrolling. So I
never get to see the whole photo.

I hope I haven't offended anybody over this but I just think there must
be
a way for people to reduce their picture size so their photos don't take
so
long to load, and also fit on the monitors of their viewers. Padraig has
done this, and hats off to him.

s.

I've been away while Spouse was building my new super duper pc but I agree
with you.

The first time I posted a picture here I was told, ever so gently, that it
would have been better for viewers if it had been smaller. That was quite
right and now I always make sure that any pictures I post to anyone are
easily loaded and viewed. It's a courtesy.

While loading a huge file our lives are ticking away, we should make full
use of every second.

Mary