The palm rats danced on the telephone wires hanging up above me

[sovay]

Internet, does anyone know how to make one of those photoset grids without being on Tumblr? Because I still don't want a Tumblr, but I do want to experiment with making photosets. I have one in my head and I want it out.

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[thistleingrey]

Do any of these help as ideas? For including in a regular web page, for WordPress, in Photoshop (last is probably best bet). That is, even on Tumblr, I think they're not automatic, so there's more than one way to simulate the effect elsewhere.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know a couple of brute-force methods of doing it. Or really, it comes down to one method.

Photos on LJ, so far as I can tell by increasing and minimizing the size of my browser window, only appear one size. Maybe this is different if you look on a mobile device, but I only have experience on a desktop. If you don't want to break people's friends scroll, I think the picture can be no wider than 1000 pixels.

Unfortunately, LJ's picture uploader will only let you display pictures in sizes that are multiples of 3 (300, 600, 900--and then 1000. Maybe it also has 100; I didn't notice because I never upload them that small). So, if you want a grid where they sit on top of each other neatly, you'd want to do something like three 300-width pictures on top of a 900-width picture, or you could do a four-square arrangement at 600, but that would maybe need to be behind a cut or else would look outsize. (I'm not actually sure of how wide you can go--maybe two 600-width photos would be okay next to each other)

Alternatively, if you want more flexibility and you can size your photos yourself (I use a program called Imagewell to do this--I believe it was free), you can make them whatever size you want them to display, upload them through LJ at that size, and then tell LJ to display the original.

The way to get the images to show up one after another is just to have the code sitting smack dab next to each other. So, you have angle bracket, code-code-code, then close angle bracket, and then, right after that, angle bracket, code-code-code, then close angle bracket. If you've sized the photos yourself, you could have two photos that were 500 pixels wide sitting on top of one that was 1000 pixels across, and then under that two more that were 500 pixels across. (To get a photo to go down to the next line, just hit return before you add the next photo.)

Or, if you have an account, or were willing to make an account, at Flickr, Flickr will size your photos at more different sizes, and then you can copypaste a certain code (I could show you where to look to get this if you were doing it this way) to get different arrangements of sizes.

[spooph.livejournal.com]

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