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Hai! ^_^
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I took a short course in photography at Southbank Institute of Technology over the past 4 weeks and one of the things my teacher mentioned was image size... I'd never really given much thought to how my shots looked to other people but hearing about the monitors the other budding photographers used in my class made me stop and think.

I have a 20" widescreen LCD monitor and I run it at 1680x1050 (I don't wear glasses yet!). The majority of people in my class had 15" - 19" square screens and ran at 1024 or less. Needless to say, I was shocked and I think a lightbulb appeared over my head.

So I changed my monitor to 1280x768 and had a flick through my dA gallery. OH MY GOD my cats looked like monsters - from what you could see of them on the screen without scrolling... How awful. Anyway, so I was of two opinions. One that didn't care, because the image size was perfect for my screen (and therefore my viewing), and one that kicked myself for being so selfish, especially to people still on dialup who, not only have to wait forever for the image to load (if they even did) and then have to scroll around the screen to see the picture which completely killed the impact.

From now on my images will be 800x500andsomething or so and although they look miniscule on my screen, I'll still have my raw and full size images on my computer, external hdd and backup DVD's to look at. This isn't too big still, is it? I had a squiz at the sizes of some of =wazabees images and they're in the 800sx500s and he's got everything pretty well sussed

I've also gone through and resized my latest pics (the macro's) but don't much care about the rest of them since I'm not 100% happy with them anyway. However, if you would like to see an image of mine smaller, please let me know and I'll resize and re-upload.

Apologies for my snobbery and it won't happen again

EDIT:
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So, the more I thought about this, the angrier I got with myself so I just went and re-uploaded pretty much all the images I took with the 400D. I feel so much better

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Bai! ^_^