Board Thread:Help Desk - Hay Day Wiki/@comment-25205196-20150327160051/@comment-2170536-20150327231350

Greetings,

My personal philosophy is that images should be uploaded with the maximum possible resolution, whatever that is. That preserves the maximum detail regardless of what size the image actually gets displayed at.

Fortunately for the viewer, performance isn't an issue when viewing large images that are resized as small images. Wikia generates a thumbnail prior to rendering for each individual image size, so if you have a 10,000x10,000px image but render it as 100x100px, the Wikia server will generate and cache a 100x100px thumbnail and render that on the page. If you right-click any resized image and select "Inspect Element", you will see a unique filename with the image name prepended by the image width; that is the link to the unique thumbnail of that image for that particular resolution. That cached thumbnail persists essentially indefinitely, which speeds up access to that image after the initial render (it can also be a problem when a new image is uploaded, as sometimes the thumbnail caches aren't updated and they can point to renders of the old images).

In terms of standard sizes, I generally try to ensure that all in-game images are captured at the maximum zoom level. Not only does this ensure the maximum amount of detail, it also ensures that the zoom level is standard across all of the images (at least that are captured on devices with the same resolution). Then when I post-process the screenshots, I ensure that all of the like images are identically sized (and square, if at all possible) so that when the images are scaled they remain properly sized from a relative perspective (i.e. buildings, etc. will all remain in proportion to each other if they are all sized to 200px..otherwise you have to play the visual game and adjust individual image sizes to make them appear proportional).

Anyway, this is just my opinion and is what has worked for me elsewhere. Feel free to use or discard at your discretion. :)

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