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[darkoshi]

Why is it that when I post photos to DW, they always display as larger than actual size? I have to add a parameter like width="80%" to make them look the same size as they do in my image editor, when I'm displaying them actual size there.

Before I had thought it was browser specific, but now it seems to be happening in all browsers. And I can't tell if other people see the images large or actual sized.

It must be due to me having Windows configured to display things at 125%.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Does the 125% setting make the image editor display things at 125%, as well? If not (if the setting doesn't carry over) then you're seeing images at 100% within it and 125% everywhere else (like in the browser, and so on).

[darkoshi]

> If not (if the setting doesn't carry over) then you're seeing images at 100% within it and 125% everywhere else (like in the browser, and so on).

Yes, I've verified that is what is happening. If I switch the Windows setting for "Make text and other items larger or smaller" back to 100%, then the image displays as the same size in both the editor and the browser.

But at 100%, everything (icons, menus, etc.) is too small for my comfort, so I need to keep it at 125%.

I'm glad that the image editor still shows the image at the actual size, at least. I started wondering if there's a way to force the browser to ignore the 125% setting when rendering pages, but then I suppose the webpage text and navigation buttons would look too small. There's no way for the browser to know which images I want scaled, and which ones not.

The reason why this has bothered me when I post images, is that they always look nice and crisp in the image editor, but due to the scaling, they look less crisp / somewhat blurry in the browser. But I'm glad to know now that's due to my own settings, rather than DW changing the image somehow when displaying it.

[marahmarie]

I'd play around with Firefox's zoom settings; if Windows is forcing browser scaling up to 125% then scaling back down to *hmmm...does some math* 112% in Fx should bring you back to what it'd look like at around 100%. I think. I'm basing this on a strict mathematical average, but it might be worth poking at, all the same.

Aaaand just realized Fx only scales in 10% increments, so I'd try it 110% for that, I guess. I wonder if that can be changed in about:config to allow, how would one put it...absolute values? So you could use any/the exact percentage.