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No..it's not you...it's the scaling and photo handling. This will be notably improved in 2007.

Great, that's a relief, thank you G. I guess that leads to a supplementary question - will the photos already in the database come back to their original colour settings, or will the improvement apply only to new photos being loaded in VT?

Good question. I'll try to find out

Curiosity-mark :)

So when can we expect the upgrades G? This has been promised for some time now.

I also don't see any changes between my uploaded pictures here and elsewhere. But on the other hand - all the technical glitches (apart from the recent forum accessibilities), like notice console and others, VTers describe here from time to time - I don't have or see. And I just have a normal computer, nothing special on it, and am IT dumb. G - what's the updates you are telling about ? This is unfair - watering our mouths and then don't say more :-(( (joke ! we are all patient)

Can't say I've noticed those changes to my photos either. But I do look forward to better views of photos next year :-) **picqualitymark**

Well, I've always been a bit more of a stickler for the images I upload, so I have typically resized them to 72 dpi and the appropriate sizes so the image handlers in VT shouldn't have to mess with the images at all. So like Mr. Onions, I've not seen too much of an issue with my pre-formatted images.

Its not easy being green

In the future you will be able to simply upload a tons of your image originals and we'll keep them all so that you can pick and choose them when you want to make tips and you will have original size, large, smaller and thumbnails. It will be quite similar to Flickr.

WOW !!!!! This will be fantastic, G :-))))) Thanks :-))) (also for telling us) ahhh, this is a real Christmas present :-)

Yes, I agree - a very exciting "Christmas present"! Very definitely something to look forward to in 2007.

So will this "bank" of photos be viewable for everyone?

This will take place in 2 steps. Step 1. You will have a gallery of all the photos from your tips. They can be viewed by location or other keywords Step 2. Bulk upload of all you images A kind of media bucket from which you can choose to use in tips or travelogues or whatever. The media bucket is private. The gallery is public

:-))) Sounds pretty fantastic ! But, G, now that you are "here", I would like to ask another question that would "fit" to your explanation of private and public: would it be also possible at a point in time in the future to have our tips also in "2 steps" ? What I mean is: step 1: start writing, collecting info like websites or keywords we want to use for the text, upload pictures etc => it stays private; step 2: finish writing the final text => it goes public. In a way like a sketchbook. Example: my stupid Darmstadt page. I already have listed a lot of things I want to write about, but everyone can see them = the heading, and it gives a "break" in the reading. If I could hide them, add whatever websites etc, and only make them public when I'm done. (hope I did explain correctly :-) Thanks Ingrid

Now that WILL BE COOL G :) Thanks for the update? Do you folks think it will 2 years? 5 years? Do you have a timeline yet? I would LOVE this option!

Good thing to have the Media Bucket private, thanks!! And yes I too would like to have tips private until finished and ready to Publish.

It will happen in 2007

Media Bucket!! Wow - wow - wow - wow!!!

That will be awesome G, thanks again to you guys for taking VT to places we hadn't considered before! (as long as it isn't the slammer, it's all good! )