Pro Version would be amazing!!! Am about to get your Lightroom plugin ??
I had written in with a feature request a while ago…
Great plug-in… Really cool to help future proof your website as more of these high res displays come out.
Would it be possible to make a feature to sample the image to a 2K and 4K resolutions?
I assume the quality section is for the quality at which the Retina image is saved at…
Would it be possible to make a feature to down sample the quality of the low rez image too? For further optimization…
My thought is… Most DSLR camera’s take images at 5K or higher… So if you loaded 5K jpg into your media folder and then the plug in created a 4K, 2K, 1K retina image and also a 2k & 1K 72 DPI was created… Then the proper images was displayed based on the device (4k iPads probably not that far off) the user was on ??
Yea I know I am wishing for the best… Just thought I would throw it out there… Thanks again!
You responded…
Actually, 4K resolution is “normal resolution”. It is just a term for very high resolution screens and TVs but one pixel in that case is still one pixel. Retina is the fact that 4 pixels are “in one”.
Of course now we could have 4K screens with Retina… So don’t worry, the plugin would work perfectly in those cases too ?? But yeah, we would need huge images! Even the Nikon D800 resolution is not enough (but almost!) to fill perfectly all the pixels available on a Retina 4K ^^’
I miss spoke a little ??
I mean 4K raster size… In normal video resolutions we have 72 DPI or 72 pixels per inch and most screens except computer screens work at that res… But with retina or other high density pixel displaces that DPI has been increased even thought the physical size of the unit is the same… Which is why they had to figure out how to nest the pixels on top of each other… But I am sure everyone already knew this ??
The easiest way I have come to think about it is its the same as printing a photograph…
So if you resample the photography for the size of the object your printing on you will need to increase your decrease you DPI to make it fit… This is sort of the same thing we are doing with retina being blown up twice the size of the original image and then squeezed back down the the constraints of the web page… This is only increasing the inherent DPI so you don’t see the stepping…
Unless i am totally of my rocker and way wrong ??
My thought is to print or export pics 2048×1080 or 3840×2160 at 240 DPI… Its data so it should not matter what you set for these numbers until they put on a display… So say the iPad or Android is really only 180DPI then the raster size will be increased but then shrunk back down with the constraints of the web page… Which will jump the DPI back up but that will have to be thrown out cause the max that can be displayed is 180 (theoretically in this example)…
So after all that here are my requests haha…
My thought for a feature for the pro versions would be to be able to uploaded the largest raster size and highest DPI at the most compressed you can create… I would want to do this all in photoshop… Then the plugin will make the smaller version and then server up the correct res for the screen you are on… This way the plugin is only downsampling… Not that your code is not great but I think photoshop might have better up-res options ??
Another cool thought would be to integrate it with the light room plugin… So you can manage all the your retina images from there and even make your own down sampled ones…
That also would be cool if I could upload all the different sizes of the images… So i can be a nut with compression and making it perfect then i Just upload it to the plugin and say this is the 2x versions and this is the thumb version… and so on…
Maybe another cool feature would be to server the images over a CDN… Like a check box and you enter your account for that CDN or something…
I think having more granular control and something to increase speed with a pro support forum in the pro version would make it really worth the purchase…
