Flickr publishing resolutions too limited

[gdi2k]

Binary package hint: shotwell

I find the resolution options for publishing to flickr too limiting. Current choices:

 - Medium 500 x 375
 - Large 1024 x 768
 - Original Size

Many of my contacts have monitors 1650 or 1920 pixels wide and view the slideshows full screen, so it seems like a shame not to be able to offer a higher resolution than 1024 x 768 without uploading the full image (8 MB+ on recent SLRs).

The "Export Photo" dialog has a nice custom pixel entry field - would be nice to have the same for Flickr exports.

[Lucas Beeler (lucas-yorba)]

I have ticketed this upstream at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2744

[EquinoxeFR (pierre-equinoxefr)]

Hi,

I have same problem, i found a dirty workaround: edit Shotwell source and add your own resolutions...

Here's a patch to add 4096 resolution.

I hope it could help you until developpers add better settings for flickr.

Pierre

[gdi2k (gdi2k)]

Many thanks for this, I'll give it a go when I get home. Looks like it's fairly trivial to add resolutions, so hopefully this enhancement can be made with ease by the Yorba guys for future versions.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

We've decided to add two new resolutions for the 0.8 release:

- 2048x1536
- 4096x3072

In a future release we may add the ability for users to enter custom resolutions.