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>Hi, Lucas, > >Whew, I'm afraid that you have exceeded my willingness >to invest the time and mental resources to fully >understand. I had the same problem with algebra until >my dad forced the issue. I use IMGBB thusly: I click >on "Start Upload", open the file and upload it. IMGBB >then gives me a few different options of how to access >the file. I choose the default method, the one that >pops up in the text box without scrolling. This >consists of a URL that, when pasted into my browser, >results in the pic being downloaded, albeit sometimes >with a noticeable delay. I don't know what exactly is >being sent, but it, for me anyway, has always been my >pic and nothing but my pic. The format (.png or .jpg) >is always the format I sent and when I copy the pic >from the web to a file on my hard drive, the format >stays the same. IMGBB has never changed one to the >other, as should be, otherwise it's like sending line >dancers instead of ball players. I prefer .png >because I prefer quality over convenience. .Jpg, >while it has a lossless format, also has lossy ones >and it's up to the file creator to choose - file size >vs. quality - and you have no control over what the >file creator chooses. .Png has no lossy mode, so you >know that the quality is the best available. Worst of >all is Google's WebP format which is always lossy. >God I hate Google! Unfortunately, WebP is always the >smallest file size, so it's becoming the default >format for web sites to minimize hard disk space and >file sending time, to the consternation of those of us >that value quality over whatever else you can get. I >have never sent IMGBB a WebP file and never will. > >My dad's digital camera saves pics in RAW format, a >proprietary format of the camera's maker. Windows >cannot display it, so you have to use the camera's >software to convert it to a format that Windows can >display. I have chosen .TIFF format because that is >not compressed in any way and therefore is the best >quality available. It, however, results in every >picture being 130+ megabytes in size. Windows photo >viewer can't handle files this size, so we have to use >the camera's software to see them Unfortunately, the >camera's engineers prioritized picture manipulation >ability over simply a slide show and it's a pain to >use. Therefore, for convenience we have bitten the >bullet and converted the RAW pics to Adobe's DNG >(Digital Negative) format and that into .jpg for use >by Windows photo viewer. WOW! this compresses a 130 >MB file to 3 MB. I cannot believe that we don't lose >a lot of quality that way, but I don't know how to >enlarge a .tiff file to see how the quality changes, >which is the way you know how much of the original has >been lost. There's got to be a way, I just don't have >the gumption to read the camera's manual. > >Enough of that. The bottom line is that IMGBB saves >the file you sent in the format you sent and >regurgitates same when you paste the URL into your >browser. I understand that you need a different >format if you wish to imbed the pic into the forum's >format for direct viewing. I'll leave that up to you. > How and why Graeme ended up with unwanted clickbait >will remain a mystery unless it happens again. Pray >that never happens.
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