Preview on the Apple Mac is a useful tool with many functions. It is even worse when people access your site on a mobile phone. You'll lose visitors.Ĭamera photso are huge and the images make websites very slow. Some people won't wait for slow web pages and will go elsewhere.
The total page size was around 12MB and took forever to load. I have seen web pages with half a dozen photos, each of which was around 2MB. If you are posting photos on your own website, uploading raw images taken on your phone or camera will make the site very slow. This can affect the quality and it is best if you resize the images yourself so you have more control over the size and quality. Images that are too big may be automatically shrunk to fit the browser window or web page. Photos on Facebook and Instagram are bigger, but not that much bigger and certainly nowhere near the size cameras take. That't great if you want to print poster-sized images, but the images on this web page are closer to 500 x 300 pixels, which is one tenth of the dimensions. Many can take photos up to 16 megapixels and these are around 5,000 x 3,000 pixels. Photos used on websites and social media services are much smaller and much lower resolution than the images that are saved from cameras and phones. This is because they are very large and very high resolution. However, uploading photos straight from the camera or phone is a bad idea. You might want to share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, or your website. Each has an optimum size for best results and Preview on the Apple Mac can prepare your photos.
There are many places to share your photos on the web, such as social media, your blog or website.