Morning Glories: Morning Glories 2016 #01, 5 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Hi everyone,

My hobby is zinnias, but I notice there was a picture of some zinnias above, so I will take that as my excuse to \"get my foot in the door\".

I admire that some of you grow morning glories indoors, and that you have an active thread going in January. I did consider breeding morning glories myself, but I was discouraged that no yellows, oranges, and yellowish scarlets were present. I think there is a yellow Ipomea so, with some aggressive interspecies crosses, it should be possible to extend the morning glory color range to be very competitive with zinnias, or even better, since morning glories have some great blues and zinnias have no blues.

My primary reason for \"butting in here\" is to provide some information about posting pictures on Dave\'s Garden that I discovered in the last few weeks. Hopefully DG will post this information at some prominent central location viewable by all DG users, but for the time being it will spread \"by word of mouth\", so to speak. I suspect that some of you may have some really spectacular pictures of morning glories, and they could deserve a better display than they are getting here.

You are probably aware that Daves Garden will display an uploaded picture that is 708 pixels wide or less at the uploaded size. I notice that a lot of pictures here are at 640 x 480 pixels. That seems to be a popular size, and that is fine.

And you probably also know that if you upload a picture that is wider than 708 pixels, Dave\'s Garden will reduce its size to 708 pixels wide. But you may not know that if you upload a picture that is wider than 708 pixels, that Dave\'s Garden will store the oversized picture on the DG site, and that there is a simple way to view those oversized pictures. I have uploaded several pictures that are 1000 pixels wide (a size that I store most of my pictures in), and you can use them to \"practice on\" the viewing technique that I will now describe.

If a picture looks like it might be oversized when you are viewing it, right click on it and choose \"View Image\" at the top of the popup menu that appears. A larger picture appears. Click your F11 key and the picture goes \"full screen\".

To get back, click F11 again, and click the Back Arrow on your Browser and you are back at the 708-pixel version, where you can click \"Back to post\" or \"Previous photo\" or \"Next photo\".

It doesn\'t hurt to try it on a picture that isn\'t oversized, so don\'t be afraid to try the technique. This technique can maximize your enjoyment of larger pictures on Dave\'s Garden. It takes just a few clicks of the mouse. So, if you have some good photos of morning glories that might deserve full screen viewing, don\'t hesitate to upload a picture that is 1000 pixels wide.

The photos I have uploaded are relatively \"fresh\" and were taken indoors in the last couple of months. The last one was taken yesterday.

ZM