Flickr Download Full Resolution

fishchris64:

Jpgs can look every bit as good as tiffs. But regardless of format, you need to realize that flickr will serve up a smaller sized image to the viewer, based on how good it fits in their browser window.

So if you upload an image that is 10,000 pixels wide, and somebody goes to the page it's on, they will be seeing a smaller copy that flickr created. You have no control over how much compression was used to create those smaller copies. For the most part, they look fine.

A person can click on the image to "magnify" it. This will show a larger sized image if it's available. Also, if you make your original image available (there is a setting to do so), there will be a link on the "all sizes" page. That link will show your original image, unaltered in any way. But a visitor will have to click thru to find it (go to the image's page. Click the link to view "all sizes". Then click the link for the original image).

Posted 13 months ago.( permalink)

John Frattura edited this topic 13 months ago.

To summarize:

1) Flickr will always create various display sizes (*), showing only as big as needed in the situation to the visitors (to save network bandwidth / optimize speed). In general the JPG-compression Flickr is using for the "display-size" images is very gentle. Results are much much better than at Facebook.

2) Flickr also stores your "original upload"(**). Depending on your settings your visitors may or may not be able to find your originals, but you can always find them yourself via the "All Sizes" dropdown.

(*) In your settings you can specify how big display sizes that are allowed. It looks like you currently restrict sizes to 2048px wide display size as max. If you want to visitors the see photos in higher resolutions than that, then change this setting (I can't remember, do you need to be Pro to get the higher resolution options here?).

(**) When uploading to Flickr in JPG format, the "original upload" stored by Flickr is truly your original version (except Flickr gives it a new filename).

However when uploading an "unsupported" format like TIFF, Flickr converts original to JPG-format. Eventually with more loss of quality than you would choose if you did the conversion to JPG yourself before upload. I would recommend you to upload in JPG format, giving you full control over the amount of compression applied to your originals stored on Flickr.

Posted 13 months ago.( permalink)

Stig Nygaard edited this topic 13 months ago.

Flickr Download Full Resolution

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fishchris64:

So, when I go to the larger image that Stig linked to:

www.flickr.com/photos/161603079@N02/52529101062

By default, I see a really clear image in my browser. Smaller than you uploaded, but sharp and clear. When I go to the all sizes page, I can click on your original and see the exact image that you uploaded. Obviously the original is going to show more detail because I see it full size.

So in just a few clicks, I can see your original image. But the one that's served up to me on the photo's page also looks good, just smaller.

Posted 13 months ago.( permalink)

Good to see progress on adding new functionality!

Anyway, I'm curious to see how this feature will be received by the Flickr community. I see a trend that people don't even use the existing resolution when publishing their images because they are afraid of "theft". Despite of Pixsy "protection".

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Have been surfing around Flickr tonight, looking at big photos and zooming into 5K & 6K resolution on the photopages (My monitor is 2.5K 27"). It's really cool. I'm even (re-)discovering new dimensions and life in some of my own old photos when studying them in larger size and more details than I have done in years. Thanks again :-)

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

I am actually pleasantly surprised with all past negative diddling, this makes up for it . One of the better attributes about flickr is larger images especially for macro.. finally something good .

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Where are the Preferences settings!?! All of my photos uploaded to Flickr are very large. But now my photos are showing at a terribly low resolution on Chrome on my desktop. They didn't used to show at such a low resolution.

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Is there a way to upload and have access to largest resolution possible, but only display a smaller size for other users/visitors?

It seems that if I choose, say Large 2068 as Largest shared image size under Privacy & Permissions, I cannot access the largest resolution possible myself, so it does not only affect visitors viewing my photos but it affects me too.

So in short, I would like to limit image size for visitors only, not for myself. Is this not possible?

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Alexx Po:

what about displaying in iOS app? is it also 6k?

No. The iPhone 11 Pro has a screen resolution of 2688-by-1242 and the screen resolution of the 12.9" iPad Pro is 2732-by-2048.

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Well, darn it... after hours of experimenting with various sizes across a range of my pics, I'm finding (perhaps not unsurprisingly) that the new 6K Max Image Size option is NOT the best default setting across my entire collection as I had hoped!!

Of course, the new 6K click-zoom max image size IS fantastic for allowing easy pan-zoom viewing of big or mega-pixel images or super-wide panos over 6K pixel width, but unfortunately, these size formats only make up a tiny % of my entire collection.

Rather, I have 1,000's of other images in the 2K-5K range that now really don't look good at all (too blurry or grainy) when using the one-click-zoom view tool, if I have selected the new (default) Max Image Sizes of 6K (or even 5K or 4K sizes for that matter) :o(

Turns out that this is due to Flickr's existing restrictive method of only allowing a single click-zoom-in (to the max image size chosen), then the next-click-zoom-out (back to the small photo page display size). All those lower res images of mine were not a problem before, because the one-click zoom tool was limited to a max display size of 2K horizontal or vertical resolution anyway.

However, now that Flickr has (finally) moved to raised the bar to 6K Max Image Size display capability, I feel they urgently need to consider at least adding some MULTI-CLICK zoom functionality for PRO users, eg:- whereby the first click would zoom to 2K size, 2nd click to 3K size, 3rd click to 4K size & so on... up to either the current 6K size limit if selected or the uploaded original image size (whichever limit is reached first), at which point the zoom tool would auto-switch back to zoom-out functionality - so a few further clicks will get you stepping back down to the initial small image view page size. Such functionality would make it incredibly more user friendly, to multi-click-zoom images across a range of resolutions & be easily & quickly able to see them at their best resolution size!

Upshot of the current situation for me is that now I find the 3K Max Image Size is the best compromise, since MOST of my collection looks great at that one-click zoomed 3K Max Image Size. Unfortunately, those few wide panos & mega-pixel images that looked GREAT at 6K are now compromised to a much less pleasing 3K Max Image Size! :o(. *Sigh* - examples that look much better at 4K, 5K or 6K: flic.kr/p/22DWjhz & flic.kr/p/BWwHMm

So, here's hoping something can be done pronto to allow the full 6K Max Image Size option to be used across the board when viewing images of varying resolutions. Surely multi-click-zoom (for PRO's only since free users are hard limited to 2K atm) wouldn't be THAT hard to code or implement?

Otherwise, I see a rather more complicated solution for PRO's being able to select the Max Image Size on a per-photo basis as the only other effective way to get around this newly-found disadvantage of selecting what should be the default new 6K Max Image Size. :o(

Hoping for a solution soon...??

Jeff C

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

aussiejeff edited this topic 51 months ago.

aussiejeff:

Just to be clear. If your upload is 2K sized, the zoom-function will not zoom into 6K, but only to 2K (the size of the upload). So for 2K photos nothing should have changed with this Flickr update.

You have checked your not hit by the same bug of non-created display versions as reported by a few above? I checked a few, doesn't look like it.

Looking at your photostream, it looks like it is mostly scanned analog photos. You seem to already have set a max display size as 3K now, but originals are available. I looked at a few, and your scannings generally have higher resolution than the analog photo they were scanned from. Thus looking a bit unsharp in "1:1 mode". The hard lesson learned is that you should downscale your photos to a size you like viewing them in before uploading. But that does of course not help you much for existing uploads (unless you are ready to re-upload all the photos you think don't look good fully zoomed in current size).

Posted 51 months ago.( permalink)

Scarlet Pimpernel:

'm also concerned that this is eating rapidly into my monthly bandwidth allowance with my provider everytime i open a photo page belonging to a pro member.

Flickr doesn't use/download higher resolution versions than needed when viewing photos. So the big display-sizes ain't used/ unless you have a high resolution monitor and are running the browser maximized - or you use the zoom function.