I found a fascinating function of my new version of WordPress 2.9.1. They declare that it has a photo editor on board, and for all intent purposes, that is what it seems to be.
But what it really is, is just an appearance manipulator!
On one post I wrote the other day, [http://brusimm.com/2010/01/07/a-bit-about-jeff-gluck-nascar-fan-power-twitter/], I uploaded a photo, then cropped out what I wanted for the article.
And for all intent purposes, it looked like WordPress did just that. But if you click on the image in the post, the entire image shows up.
This tells me that all it’s doing is framing the image for a section to be seen. That also possibly means that when your site visitors load up your website, they’re not loading that cropped image you worked so hard on, but the entire image. That kills bandwidth in the long run if you “crop” a lot of images for your site.
Me, I’m sticking with cropping before upload so I know that my visitors aren’t using extra bandwidth that they don’t need to use.
