Bogley

[KillEmAll]

stefan wrote:
okay, so the difference i was getting at is, were you thinking of it as one many modes of operation, perhaps that you could turn on or off at your leisure (since some folks don't like the thought of it) or that it should be the primary mode of operation. i got the feeling you were getting at the latter.

Ah, gotcha. I really haven't thought that deeply about. I definitely don't think it would or should be used everywhere. It just doesn't seem appropriate. I certainly wouldn't want to see any of Carpey's or Richard's photos distorted in any way. But some things aren't as beautiful and really could be distorted as needed. I don't think this is an across the board kind of thing. As always, I think the content creator should have the ultimate control over how their work is viewed. You might even have legal issues if you did this across the board, modifying images that don't belong to you. I'm not a lawyer though, and Scott's probably so board with this thread by now he's stopped reading it hours ago.

[Sombeech]

I think there's a lot of debate on this technology. True, you wouldn't want your scenic award winning shots manipulated, but most photos on the web aren't of the outdoors. This breakthrough is geared towards PDAs and blackberry phones, for quick reference visuals.

Plus, I'll bet there'll be an option to right click on it and see the original file if you really wanted to.

I think it's great.

Another option, thinking of this forum, there are technologies out there that would let you upload your 3MB photo to a forum, and it would be resized for you and your viewers to the 800 X 600 size.