The Photo Forum Screensaver

['Daniel']

54 in the colour

40 black and white

(approx)

I think they're good amounts if theres a 10 second delay. Dunno what others think?

 

[lazarus219]

10 seconds seem kinda long, except i do alot of video editing so i notice how much really fits into 10 seconds, so my judgement of time is probly different to most,

Still if it looks good im happy,

Did you recieve my email?

 

['Daniel']

It can be less than 10 seconds(I hope), I didn't really think about that figure.

I just got some emails I'll reply shortly.

 

[LittleMan]

I would suggest 5 seconds.

 

[Unimaxium]

I think 10 is a little long too. 5 sounds better IMHO.

 

[kelox]

Daniel, i sent you two pics, let me know if you didn't get them.

 

[lazarus219]

Just got your email Daniel, thanks for letting me be in on this

It's a great idea, and is gonna be one good screensaver,
Will there be any way to identify the photographer of each photo? (maybe by file names or similar)

 

['Daniel']

Hmm I'm not sure, I would have done titles at the bottom of each but there weren't titles for all so it would be hard. I also am not decided on something. I have some that are smaller than 1024 wide or 768 high so i put then on a black background to stop them being stretched. Should I resize the others or keep them full screen. I think it will look great with full screen pictures however might look odd with some that aren't.

Any opinions?

 

[LittleMan]

Hmm I'm not sure, I would have done titles at the bottom of each but there weren't titles for all so it would be hard. I also am not decided on something. I have some that are smaller than 1024 wide or 768 high so i put then on a black background to stop them being stretched. Should I resize the others or keep them full screen. I think it will look great with full screen pictures however might look odd with some that aren't.

Any opinions?

You should probably make them all the same size.... with a black background behind them.
Because all of them aren't the same crop and it will also be bad for us with huge screen sizes.
I think a good size would be 800-900 pixels at the widest point. Good luck!

Making them all smaller would help you out a lot and make it a lot easier. Otherwise they will all be different and not look uniform.

 

['Daniel']

Hey guys, I have been working on the B&W Screensaver. I have tried it out where it makes the images fit the sreen and I think it works very well. The portrait ones don't look as effective but I think it still looks better than with a fixed size. The Only problem is that Some people have sent pretty small pictures sooo we havea some choices.

• I can request for people who have doesn't small pictures to send big ones (around 3MP)
• I can set them all to a fixed size (will mean alot of work and I'm off on holiday on thursday so you might not get it fo a couple of weeks) which I personally don't think looks as good.
• I can keep it how it is and sacrifice a bit of quality on a few pics although I run at 1280x960 and its fine in my eyes, some may not think its acceptable.

I will have to ask for people who submitted smaller colour ones to send larger versions too. I don't think I can get both done before thursday if we have it fixed size because it requires fiddling about in photoshop. So you could either wait for colour or I could send it to someone who is willing to do it.

So in summary I think full screen looks great on good res photos. It will mean you get a better looking screensaver and faster but will require some to resend r we can do one of the other options.

Sorry for a bit of rambling but I want it to be right. Replies soonish would be good obviously.

 

[PlasticSpanner]

What size do you need them? (Width/Height) I can re-size mine if you need me to.

 

['Daniel']

I reckon about 2000px width if its portrait would be good and 1000px height if portrait. I dont think many people have higher resolutions than that do they?

 

[LittleMan]

Listen, Daniel. Just make a decision and get it out there. It's your project.

 

['Daniel']

Ok you're right

Right I need resizes by people. They need to be big around 2000px in width or 1000px in height. I need them ASAP. I will send email and PMs to the people who I need resizes from.

If I don't get them soon then I wont be able o compile it before my holiday. I will have to consider dropping these people's pictures all together.

 

['Daniel']

Sorry for double post.

I'm working on the B&W one now, Its those I need urgently. The people who i sent E-Mails to could you please send resizes of all your photos sent please. In general people sent all big or all small images so I shouldn't need to email anyone else.

Please get back to me as soon as you can. From previewng the screensaver I think it looks really good.