How big is too big for images in your web site portfolio?

malcolm

I'll be updating my web site in the next couple months with some recent art I've done. I usually go with 1280x720 but I'm seeing a lot of people are going higher res. I was thinking about doing 1600x900 renders but I just did a mock up and that seems pretty big, like you'd have to be surfing my site in full screen mode which I never do. Maybe something smaller like 1400x788. Opinions?

Playdo

If you're any good at coding you could make the site scalable depending on the browser window size. If not, it's a good idea to see what percentage of users use what screen res and strike a balance from that.

Fireflights

I'd aim for accessibility. Most of the visitors to my site use a 1280x1024 resolution, and I think going much higher than that would be a bad idea. Why would the renders need to be 1600x900? You could always throw in some detail shots, if that's what you're worried will be missed.

I'm running 1680x1050, and to me, the images on your site seem the perfect size right now. I don't really see what you could gain from increasing the size even further.

Autocon

I agree completely with fireflights on this one. Images on your site are prefect. Not to big but big enough to see all the detail.


Not to mention the bigger your images are the bigger your flaws show up.

Ben Apuna

Yeah, I like the size of your images the way they are right now.

One possibility is that you could have even larger images after one more click on the presently sized ones. That would make it 3 clicks to get to the full size images, perhaps that's a bit much but really only there for those that really want to see the detail.

Your NBA Street Homecourt work is really nice btw.

malcolm

Thanks Ben! Maybe I'll stick with 720p then since I don't want to lose the functionality of being able to click the image again to back to the previous page.

PredatorGSR

I agree with the resolution. Based on my web stats, 90% of visitors use at least a 1280 horizontal screen resolution. So that is the min spec you should design for. That usually means that images should be about 960 pixels across.

ScoobyDoofus

My 2cents:
My highres versions are 1920x1200(My desktop res).
I'm a whore for high resolutions / detail. I'm almost always wanting images on folio sites to be bigger.

00Zero

ah, so thats YOUR portfolio. ive oggled it more than a few times. great stuff.

i think theyre perfect size. im running at 1920x1280 though. maybe leave them at an accessible res but have a way to download all the pics on one page at a high res to their computers?