Tutorial On Sharing High Resolution Photos This Holiday Season
Written on December 20, 2009 by Kay
Online High-Resolution Photos
When it comes to digital photos, the more megapixels your digital camera can output, the more detail you’ll be able to unlock inside the pixels when, for instance, zooming in, or creating poster-size printouts of your Hawaiian vacation. It’s just a shame that your computer’s screen can only display about 1 to 2 megapixels at a time, so you lose most of the viewing advantages that your 12 megapixel camera affords you when viewing on a computer’s screen.
And let’s not forget, it’s not very kosher to attach a 12 megapixel photo to an e-mail to send off to grandma, so you must shrink it down, which basically negates all the visual detail that a 12 megapixel image locks away in its pixels. There’s a way to show off your high-resolution photos to others without sacrificing quality. Read on to find out how.
It’s All In The Pixels
A high-resolution photo, for example, can be zoomed in upon to inspect tiny, subtle details. It can also be blown up to poster-size without sacrificing quality. It’s just too bad that few people will ever get to see all the detail when you post your image on the web. Usually, when uploading your photos to, let’s say your Facebook page, you’ll need to diminish the size of your images. While this cuts down on storage space and image-to-browser download time, it also cuts down on your high-resolution image’s brilliant quality.
Closr: Keep Your Image Details
A free website that goes by name of Closr let’s you upload all of your high-resolution images as they are. While there’s a cap at a 100 megabyte file when uploading, this doesn’t present a problem as most 12 megapixel images weigh in at only 3 or 4 megabytes.
Because Closr allows you to upload such large images, you will be able to show off your 12 (or larger) megapixel vacation photos in all their splendor without cutting down on their quality. As if this weren’t enough, you can also display huge panoramic photos that you’ve stitched together from other high-resolution photos, giving you a way to show the world awesome vistas that you’ve captured with your digital camera.
Before you use Closr, you’ll need to create an account (one of my pet peeves, but it’s hard to get around this). Once your Closr account has been created, you can start uploading your photos. You’ll start to see the real beauty of Closr once you have a photo uploaded; Closr displays your image as a widget, which gives anyone viewing it the ability to zoom in to get a gander of all the minutiae locked away behind each photo’s multitude of pixels. You can also go full-screen, which does away with the somewhat restrictive frame that encompasses each image when in normal viewing mode. Very cool.
If you’d like to send an e-mail to show your photos to your friends and loved-ones, all you need to do is include the URL to your images page on Closr. No more attaching humongous images to e-mail and risking mailbox clog on the recipient’s side. If you’re a blog author or website administrator, you can embed a script that will display a Closr image widget directly into your blog or web page.
Now that you know about Closr, you’ll never need to sacrifice high-resolution image quality when uploading your photos to the web.
