Help – for Photo (display) Options
Seven
option selections for seeing 2008 Christmas Party photos are provided – each
has its own ‘link’ – numbered 1 through 7.
Example is below.
Simplest Summary: If you connect to the WEB with a phone line (or other slow connection), there is now an effective way for you to
see all photos.
Simple Summary: Slow
connection? --- options ‘1’, ‘3’ and ‘5’ (seen above) are an effective way
for you to see all photos.
Summary for the typical
viewer:
If you have a fairly high speed network connection and a classic monitor, you may
want to read no more – just use options 2, 4, and 6.
The
selection options offer one of three different methods of display:
i) ‘mini’ versions -
‘mini’ in that 3 photos go side by side –
thus file size is ‘mini’ and better for slow network
ii) ‘full sized’
versions – designed to take good
advantage of ‘classic’ monitor width = 1024 pixels
iii) ‘auto-scaling’ to fit ‘modern’ monitors - allows for
slideshow viewing or selective viewing (with saving allowed)
Each
method provides some usage guidance
when it starts – please read it.
The
fact is that all three methods have advantages and disadvantages. I enjoy each method. Please experiment and make your own
judgments.
BEWARE
- if you use a standard phone line
to connect or your neighborhood’s
‘high speed’ network has an overload and is not very fast then option ‘7’ (method iii) may fail!
That’s
the bad news. Good news – ‘7’ provides rarely seen advantages for a large, high
resolution monitor (when supported by a high speed network).
Option
‘7’ uses Google’s “Picasa Web Albums”. I
think it is VERY NICE! As used for
this application, only links that provide the password actually allow seeing
the photos. Usage hints: 1) Experiment! 2) If you click a thumbnail, the photos
opens and you may use arrows to go forward and backwards. You may also save a high quality copy. 3) You
will see an option for a ‘Slideshow’. When
it is used, if you move the mouse, a control feature appears at the bottom of
the screen that allows pausing and increasing (+) and decreasing (-) display
time and exiting the slideshow.
I
very much prefer to also put the browser in full screen mode – normally a menu
option --- and also done, in Windows Internet Explorer and Firefox, with FunctionKey 11 (an On/Off toggle).
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