2000x2000 image forum upload limit makes bug posting screenshot very tedious
whitefrozenturkey
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It would be great if the forum allowed taller images to be posted, like have a max width of 2000 but max height of 20000 so that you can post screenshots for bug reports and not spend an hour breaking images apart and stitching them back together in the post.
I'm assuming that in a bug report screenshots are useful so having this arbitrary limit does not seem productive to me.
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The image size allowed in this forum is generous, compared to both the old DAZ 3D forums, and other forums around the net.
If too many too large images are posted in a thread it makes the forum very slow to load for those forum members who do not have a high speed broadband connection.
I also wonder how you manage to get a screen shot that is 20,000 pixels high. Screen shots are the same size as ones screen resolution.
ROTFLMAO!!! OMG....this is just too.... precious ...
I do want that screen driver what ever it is my max rez is 1920 x 1020.
There are programs known as "image editors" which allow you paste images together and save them as one. One such popular program is known as "MS Paint". Another is "Adobe Photoshop".
As for "slowness", it's the same amount of bandwidth whether the image is in 5 images or one. Surely this is obvious to you?
What is actually slow is typing back and forth with people across a million posts describing the all the various DAZ bugs. Having a series of screenshots shortens the entire process several times over.
What is more valuable, the time of the DAZ employees that have to post over and over trying to guess what the problem is or the price of a few millicents worth of bandwidth?
It's being a penny wise and a dollar foolish.
I am still not understanding you. You say you don't want to break images apart and then stitch them together in a paint program, and then you say that you want to stitch your screenshots together into one image in the first place, instead of just posting them as screen shots, as everyone else does.
If I am doing a series of screen shots I will tend to use one image in PS, layer each screen shot and save the relevant part of each layer as a jpg to post into the forum. You can attach 5 images for each post.
People do Tutorials quite easily so why are you saying it would be so difficult to make screen shots of any problems that you may be having.
BTW it only becomes a bug when it is obvious that the problem is with the program, or the product that you are using and can be reproduced by others, and at that stage you will be recommended to actually post a bug report. All the tine you are posting problems to the forums that are just problems that Helpful forum members and moderators will try assisting you with.
Ever consider that 5 Reduced Rez screen shots or even Clipped sections of a screen will serve just as well as a full screen shot? Also the Fact that you can upload 5 full 2000x2000 image files as long as the File size total does not exceed the max total is also allowed.
If I want to post a series of screenshots it's much easier to paste them into one photoshop image, make them vertically arranged, save and upload them as one image, one time than pasting each one into PS individually, saving it individually, uploading it individually, and hitting the preview button individually to get the next image upload slot.
It's just ridiculous. What is the point?
It's actually more bandwidth efficient to upload the same number of pixels as a single image than 2 or more because of the reduced overhead. Everything about this limitation is counterproductive.
"BTW it only becomes a bug when it is obvious that the problem is with the program, or the product that you are using, and at that stage you will be recommended to actually post a bug report. All the tine you are posting problems to the forums that are just problems that Helpful forum members and moderators will try assisting you with."
Whether it's a bug or user error it soaks up DAZ employee resources fielding the questions. Making it arbitrarily difficult to upload screenshots just makes it more likely that the threads will drag on and on with people asking for more information.
And as for sending bug reports in, I haven't had much luck with that. I just get generic canned responses from them. The forum answers are a million times better.
"Ever consider that 5 Reduced Rez screen shots or even Clipped sections of a screen will serve just as well as a full screen shot?"
No, because when things are going wrong it's impossible to know if there's something random somewhere else on the screen that might be important. For instance, when I was trying to understand how pins work in one thread it was something I wasn't even looking at on the screen that was the fix.
If you do not want information that works, and can be done, that is your choice. I prefer to use what is offered to the best of its possibilities than demand that a NEW feature be added just because I think it would be better. DAZ 3D has set the limit and file size for a reason and I do not see it being changed any time soon. It is so users with slower providers do not waste time loading one HUGE file and eating their bandwidth and time. I'm sorry you feel otherwise.
Upload your Huge file to a OFF SITE provider and Send a LINK. That also is allowed. I fail to see the issue in the way you do.
It takes more bandwidth for people to download 5 images than one for the same number of pixels due to the extra overhead. It's basic math.
I guess you like making things difficult for low bandwidth users?
I tested saving the 5 images I uploaded for my most recent thread.
The 5 images individually are 1,529,835 bytes
The same 5 images saved to one image by itself is 1,392,621 bytes
So the only effect of your limitation is to use up an extra 15% bandwidth for absolutely no reason.
And I'm not going to post a link to an offsite image host because I find that I get more replies when there are images directly in the thread. People don't like to click links, they want it right there.
SnagIt has a scrolling window image capture ... mind you for super long pages it would be a little hard to read lol ...
This is an image of a frog on a dog on a head for absolutely no reason.
Oh yes here we are ... an image with over 20,000 things ... one of the forum's pages as an image captured by SnagIt after I installed the update.
And it actually is readable.