Care about others: Limit Picture Sizes to 1MB.

Hey!

I've been wanting to post this for a while now. Many people don't have high-speed connections or share their connection with many others, so it's a real burden for us to watch your lovely big photos. I know many places allow uploading 20MB photos, but that doesn't mean you should.

For example, my own photos are downsized and rendered at a lower quality before I post them to the internet. I observed that there is no visible difference between a 6MB picture from a 1MB one (JPEG exported from lightroom). So you don't have to worry about losing quality.

Also, there is no need for high resolutions. The pictures are displayed at a resolution of about 720p , so you can drop the resolution to 1080p or similar without worrying. No need for sizes like 3000x2000 or 3264x4928 (in my case, the original sizes).
This means you can choose between dropping your resolution, JPEG rendering quality or doing both.

It's no problem if you only have a few photos, but if there's 5+ photos, things get really slow for me. I have a 10Mbit/s connection. That means I can download at an maximum speed of 10/8=1,25MB per second.

Here is an example of 3 different pictures rendered in 3 different quality settings (original resolution).
Full - no size limit. Med - 1000 KB size limit. Min - 500 KB size limit.
Spot the difference:

Picture 1

Full (11,2MB)

Med (795KB)

Min (475KB)

Picture 2

Full (8,74 MB)

Med(984 KB)

Min(435 KB)

Picture 3

Full (3,84 MB)

Med (718 KB)

Min (418 KB)

For me there is no observable difference between the full-sized and med-sized pictures although the size difference is 5x to 10x. The smaller ones, which are below 500KB, do show a difference, that's why I recommend uploading pictures around ~1MB.

Hope no one took offence with my post. This is about caring for those with low connection speeds and also speeding up your own uploads. (+all servers will be grateful. Just look at imgsafe.org. We killed it :( There's no need for that. )

*I tagged this post with #steemit because this doesn't only concern #photography , but the whole platform/every post.

**Also, if you find a new post with lots of big pictures that loads very slowly, link this post to them.