So I just got my new iPad today and the screen is out of this world.
Which brings a question - what to do with my pictures?
Should I redo my website and upload everything again in higher resolution?
What do you guys think? What is your approach?
This thing is crazy, 2048x1536 and it's just the beginning. Samsung is coming up
with even higher resolution very soon. Next generation laptops will probably match...
What s@cks is that Safari on iPad is not color managed. So we are back to sRGB
Interesting stuff. I didn't even think about that.
Quite honestly I'm not too worried about people mooching my images off the web. I supply all of my clients with full-resolution images anyways, and I make very little off prints - much less prints 8x10 or less.
I care more about presenting my images in a high quality manner that would wow people and allow me to book a $4000 wedding more than worrying if I'm losing $20 from someone printing one of my images without me know.
I think the real problem is scaling photos across displays. My website automatically scales images up to relatively high-resolutions (although I think I might need to bump it up even higher now). The problem is that I suffer from slower load times because of that. The other issue is my blog. What the crap size should I put my blog images at? I'm thinking 1000 px wide would be a good start, but I suppose we'll see.
Most photo-websites just don't look good on the new iPad...
I guess I need to research making two versions - "regular" and higher rez.
Maybe some autodetection of the screen resolution (is it possible in simple html?)
would be useful...
Intresting, Andrew! I wonder what Flick'r, Picasa and othe massive photo sites will do, too. For them the challenge must be huge if everyone upolads to that level of definition, just because they can now view it easily.
Zenfolio dynamically switches to the appropriate sized version of the image when you change the size of the browser window. Some examples from our forum member thedigitalbean: http://akimagery.com/
I also picked up the new iPad yesterday, and will probably not change anything about my online posting. My 27" NEC PA271W has less pixels in the vertical dimension than the iPad! What resolution is a good compromise between 2048x1536 and 2560x1440 I might make some specially prepared versions for the iPad though, to get the maximum effect on that screen.
I've been more interested to see if there is a iPad workflow possible so I don't have to bring my laptops on trips. Not to permanently process but more as viewing quick edits and backups.
FlyPenFly wrote:
I've been more interested to see if there is a iPad workflow possible so I don't have to bring my laptops on trips. Not to permanently process but more as viewing quick edits and backups.
Take a look at Filterstorm. But after you do the edits on the iPad, how are you going to transfer them to a computer?
FlyPenFly wrote:
I've been more interested to see if there is a iPad workflow possible so I don't have to bring my laptops on trips. Not to permanently process but more as viewing quick edits and backups.
You may want to consider a MacBook Air, or something similar. Mine feels barely larger than my tablet, but runs LR4 great. My tablet is pretty much for reading books by my bedside, at this point.
FlyPenFly wrote:
I've been more interested to see if there is a iPad workflow possible so I don't have to bring my laptops on trips. Not to permanently process but more as viewing quick edits and backups.
This is probably the only reason I might have considered the iPad but it's lack of SD card slot plus lack of memory expansion makes it a no go for me for such a purpose. Better just to take something like a MacBook Air which is much more capable or at least a tablet which offers more features/ openness. Hopefully, Apple will give the next MacBook Airs decent IPS screens finally!
wfrank wrote:
Regarding editing software, I thought Snapseed was about the best you can get?
+1. This has certainly been my experience, although admittedly I haven't been looking for what else is out there since getting it. Which probably says a lot, too.
tomrock wrote:
Snapseed is a toy -- a cool toy, but it's not a raw editor.
Everything is a toy.
The main problem is the core idea of iOS - limit users from accessing their files.
The reason is also very simple (if you don't know, it's about money )
Apple controls the environment so they can make 30% on each application
installed on any iToy in the world...
It s@cks and it makes less and less sense as the power of those things increases.
Windows 8 might force Apple to change it, until then it's only a toy.
I have tried a few of those photo apps. iPhoto is useless, deleted it after 5 minutes.
The best IMO is Photogene. iPhotoshop limits size of files to 1600px (!).
Back to the websites - does someone know how to use "viewport" tag properly
to avoid weird scalling with all the screen resolutions?
I have one issue - my subpages bump single images to more than full screen and crop them...
LightShow wrote:
Do your images look ok on the ipad? I guess you could bump rez a bit to it's native rez.
The site looks great btw.
Even my main page looks bad as all the icons look lowrez.
But look at the fredmiranda.com - all the icons look terrible.
The problem with hirez icons would be the lowrez displays
It must be a different version of the website.
I might make some specially prepared versions for the iPad though, to get the maximum effect on that screen.