Originally posted by PF Staff A better way to browse our photo sharing forum!
I really like the photo mosaic for looking at photos, I have discovered several photos I would likely have missed with the "classical" view. Thank you!
I do, however, think that the selection algorithm could be improved on slightly: very often the mosaic consists mostly of photos of the same or a very closely related subject (seven different photos of similar ducks/flowers, subject at varying distance/sharpness etc). I think this reduces the benefit of the mosaic as a way to discover new photos and was probably not the intention when it was set up.
I believe this is due to two things in the mosaic algorithm: 1) it shows/picks every single photo posted in threads that have a series of photos 2) It groups photos from the same thread together.
One way to get around this would be to only display the first photo from a Post-your-photos thread in the mosaic. This way some great photos may not be displayed, but I think it would improve the overall quality of the photos.
However, some threads contain several very good photos. A way to include these photographs, and subject to the photographers discretion, would be to enable a "tick-box" to "include all photos in mosaic gallery" when starting a Post-your-photos thread (placed together with the Category, Lens, Aperture or under Miscellaneous Options).
A related item: currently there is no quick way of accessing the mosaic when browsing the nice, new mobile-friendly main pentaxforums.com website. It would be fitting to include a link to it under the "=" (equation sign) menu.
Thank you again for making the mosaic feature!
Last edited by AlexBW; 10-22-2016 at 03:10 AM.
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