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lyc β PSA: Set your display options!
Published: 2016-08-20 02:01:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 5244; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 12
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Something I see pretty much all the time on dA since they changed their submission process is people showing their latest pride and joy at postage stamp resolution when fullviewed, only because they didn't set this option!I truly cannot understand how people can care about and spend time on a piece of artwork, then either not care or somehow not notice (?!) that the image is being brutalised by deviantArt's resizing and re-compressing. This is not a subtle thing at all: the image is absolutely tiny, and especially shades of red get completely destroyed by deviantArt's careless robo-resize.Β The worst is when people disable downloads, so you get nothing except the postage stamp sized JPEG mash... eeeeew...
Yes, you have to set the setting every time. If you can't remember that, that's too bad, because it makes the result almost not worth viewing.
Come on guys, don't kill your artwork in the 11th hour!
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Yeap it downsizes for me and doesn't let to display full size I'm gonna friggin flip
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Every time I upload a long tall submission nowadays, it always goes to 600 pixels wide. Even when I edit it it reverts to this. It's too narrow. I've asked DA about this twice and have received no answer.
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I'm having the same problem. I wonder what kind of 'feature' this is supposed to be.
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For some reason there isn't an option in my submission page.
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I'm agree with you. Don't waste your time to submit artwork again, just change it in edits. The Deviantart is keeping every submitted art with original(full) resolution.
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This also annoys me. I would prefer to show something like 4000Γ3000 by default and let users download even bigger. All the fixed size options are too low.
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For mobile connections this things are really useful... and saves a lot lot ofΒ bandwidth to them.
I set all of mine to 1600, although they can be download at full resolution. I checked a lot of time ago how many visits and favs have the same image with different sizes (in MB) and I found that above 2000 (don't remember the amount in MB but all of that images of that size of mine have similar sizes) Β the visits are always less. Maybe is my audience, that has worse DSL connections, I don't know.
I have to check again thought.
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The thing is, no one clicks download, and those few who are mindful of it have to click this much smaller button (first checking if it's available, if it's bigger than the fullview image, ...).
You can be pretty sure < 5% of your audience clicks download to get the "actually really honest fullsize" image.
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yes, well, I dont mind 
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I think it's mostly about theft ... I think watermarks take more out of an image so I don't use them, Β but I don't want charlatans getting away with a super detailed piece.
Also my uploads are usually 5000 pixels wide, which is shown in the details panel to the right. Anyone wanting to buy a print would be able to see that their purchase will be far better than what is shown on dA.
Having said that, I display at 1024 wide for square images and portraits and 1280 for landscapes, which should be plenty
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Hmmm, slightly different issue I think. What I'm referring to here is, Joe wants to release an image at, say, 1920x1080. Joe uploads the image to dA, does not set this original size thing, does not check that his image is actually the size he expects, and the image stays up there at 1024 x whatever.Β This is happening aaaaaaaaaaall over deviantArt at the moment.
PS. 1024 pixels wide is very low res these days, it was only ever a "good" resolution around the mid 90s! To each their own of course, but I think the vast majority of people would consider that resolution not very enjoyable, and people who steal artwork wouldn't bat an eyelid before upsizing the image before selling it...
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I agree 1024 and 1280 are too small to see all the details properly, but I think that 5000 is excessively large and at full size it takes a lot of scrolling.
I started rendering very large because dA kept telling me my Apo stuff wasn't good enough to print, and I've just carried on like that even though I've never sold one and don't even submit as print any more because it feels like clerical work 
Would you advise to set to original size and keep rendering at 5000, or make lower resolutions (2500 or so), to avoid the scrolling? I mostly just do Mandelbulb these days ...
Do you think it's worth going back through my submissions and changing the settings on my older stuff?Β
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5000 pixels wide is too small for a print (at 150 dpi it's 33 inches wide) and too high res for screen, even on a 4K monitor. So I don't understand that particular resolution either way
My advice is to render at 12800x7200 (in the common case of widescreen aspect ratio), downsize it to eg 1920x1080 or 1680x1050 for screen viewing and submit that to dA, setting fullview to be 1:1 so people see a nice image, and then uploading the original image to dA for the print. This is what I've been doing on dA since 2006.
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It's beacuse of a bug. Even if i set it to original size it'll still be saved with the default size. Then i have to edit the deviation and set it again to work. Happens every single time i upload and it's very annoying.
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I've never had this problem, but of course one way or another it's because of a deviantArt error, and at the end of the day people should be aware of it and check that their stuff looks right
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I am not 
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It doesn't surprise me, I almost forgot it a few times. It doesn't make sense how you'd want to not have the original size available.
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And seriously, that 400 pixels wide option... just... what the fuck, how do you even come up with that size ("Hmmm, how about a little over good old VGA 320x200?"), then think it's a good enough idea to show the boss, then the boss goes "oh excellent, we don't have enough HD images auto-resized to 400 pixels around here!", then actually ship it...
To be a fly on the wall at dA dev and management...
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Yep, deviantArt is uniquely inept among art sites in this regard... *sigh* they really don't deserve their user base, every revision is less functional and more ultracapitalist than the last.
If it weren't for daily deviations (when it was one a day, at the bottom of msgcentre) and DepthCore wallpapers back in the day, they would have faded into obscurity like every other WinAmp skin site... but I disgress, and show my age too much...
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It's kinda shocking how few people notice, given this is supposed to be an image sharing site, at the lowest level...
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