[ubuntu-uk] Flickr

[Tony Arnold]

Freddie,

Freddie Ruddick wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:51 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> A bit of a hijack, but in F-spot when uploading to Flickr, there is an
>> option to set the resolution/size of the image, but it's a single figure
>> with units of pixels. Any idea what this means?
> 
> Tony,
> 
> As I understand it, F-Spot will retain the orientation of the photo,
> then scale it down so that the longest edge of the image is [whatever
> you put in the box] pixels long. So if you have an image 1000*1200, and
> you enter 120 in the box, it will scale it to 100*120. Or if your
> original image is 1200*1000, it will take it to 120*100
> 
> I hope that made some kind of sense!

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Regards,
Tony.
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