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Questions tagged [images]

Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.

Images are an increasingly important part of the web. It's important to know what image formats to use in which situation, e.g:

  • jpg for photographs
  • png for graphics

as well has how to deliver them efficiently to the user.

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Serving Images out of SQL server vs. File system vs. S3 etc

My application (classic asp yay!) has about 2.1 million images @ 25GB and that only represents 90 days of data and I'd like to go 365 at a minimum. I need to get these under control and am considering all options. What are your thoughts on the…
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Cheap stock images website (per image pricing)

Possible Duplicate: What are sources of free/cheap stock photos? (Additional requirements, read description.) I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind of expensive because you have to buy a $18,50 package if…
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Thumbnail preview rotator on mouse-over - what is it called?

I've been searching for hours now but can't get any tutorial on this. I have these thumbnails on my homepage which are the first images of their corresponding posts. What I want is that when I mouse-over a post on the homepage... the corresponding…
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What zoomable image viewers are there for websites?

What zoomable image viewers are there? By these I mean tools that one can embed in a website to let a user zoom in on and pan around a high res image, a canonical example being http://www.zoomify.com/ (see the demo on their home page). Comments on…
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What's the original image address from a adobe scene 7 site?

Initially i would like to find out an image from nike store, then i found this: http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?wid=890&hei=550 here Nike uses adobe scene7 for its dynamic imaging. How could I grab the original file from it? some…
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where to store images?

i am making a website that will have a big ammount of photos and images, where should i store these is a database an efficient option? thanks
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Convert images as they are uploaded to a server?

Does anyone know if images can be converted at the server-level? We have hundreds of thousands of images - mostly in jpeg format. My question is: can the images (that are uploaded to our Amazon server) be converted there and then? The format I am…
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Various elements in a single image?

When I go to View Page Info -> Media in the Mozilla Firefox (or any other gecko-based browser). I see one picture there which contains several elements of the site: My questions are: How they get separated when rendering the website? (I know it's…
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Text Style behind an Image or Pic

There are times that surfers block images just to have a faster browsing (Block download images) I would like to have an option when this happen to show a style text with a large text in colors. So if the user block my images they still can see my…
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Prevent low quality placeholder images being used in search results

On a site that uses low quality placeholder images in the src attribute which are then replaced with higher quality images with LazySizes, these low quality images are showing up in search results and don't look very good. I'm wondering if…
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How can I clone 1 Million images website?

I want to clone a website and upload it on my own that has 1 million images with descriptions. Descriptions need to be attached to a photo, with database possibly. For example: https://www.freepik.com/photos/animals I also need to update it every…
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Programatically determine if web pages request image (as opposed to simply seeing that there is an img src in the code)

Some of a website's pages have source code that includes img src="url_to_image" but the img is not requested by the page. Is there a way to crawl the website to programatically determine if images are in code but not requested? I'm reasonably…
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How to properly use large screen monitors

I have a 48" tv hooked up to a computer and I am trying to use it as best I can. I am making a web app that displays daily quotes in a grid format and it takes up the whole page. for example a grid of 9x4 = 36 small pictures, my pictures have some…
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Loading 300dpi images for download

How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?
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Cheap stock images website (per image pricing)

so I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind of expansive because you have to buy a $18,50 package if you want one image that would cost 3 to 5 dollars, and the odd currency of the site don't help making me at…
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