PICCLICK.CO.UK IMAGE SEARCH UPDATES

http://picclick.co.uk/?q=Stephen+Gayford
http://picclick.com/?q=Stephen+Gayford

PICCLICK helps with print titles...

The picclick.co.uk website is just one domain
as there are the other countries and their domains
as well as the dot com domain. If we visit the
dot com domain for our searches for Ebay items,
we could get too many search results for the
Stephen Gayford pictures. Even so, the co.uk site
offers us a wide selection. From the search results,
we can see many of the images are identified by
the image titles, rather than as Ebay does with
various sizes including the larger image sizes, too.

Check image Properties...

From the piclick webpage for the search results,
right-click the first image and see the Properties
details eg 3 clicks to highlight the full image
Address Bar URL. From this example I got this:

http://thumbs3.picclick.com/d/l400/pict/361732444430_/A-future-King-Limited-Edition-Mounted-Framed.jpg

Check for l for large images:

That's for the l for large 400 pixel size. We can edit
that to l1600 for the much larger 1600 pixel image.
We see the painting's name much easier that way,
should the larger image actually exist.

http://thumbs3.picclick.com/d/l1600/pict/361732444430_/A-future-King-Limited-Edition-Mounted-Framed.jpg

361732444430 represents the Ebay item number.

http://thumbs3.picclick.com/d/w400/pict/361732444430_/A-future-King-Limited-Edition-Mounted-Framed.jpg

(That's a soft focus image not as detailed as the
l for large l400 image is... or like the l1600 image.)

More Ebay results...

Refining the search results... we get more items
if we select the top left ADD + description link...

Change the results with the left-hand side option
of Show ALL... when that loads, switch the option
next to it to items Ending Soon...

Loading more images...

Wait a while for that to start then scroll down the
web page... The little dots animation means more
images are going to be loaded... so finally all the
images get loaded to the end of the web page...

Larger image web page displays...

Knowing that there's a way to create a web page
with the l1600 images instead of the l400 images
means that we can use the HTML Validator Lite
 free PC program for its search and replace
eg from l400 to l1600 instead. Then we save that
version and open and display it with its larger
new image sizes. Then we save as a complete
web page with the detailed l1600 images...

http://www.htmlvalidator.com/

Whether it's thumbs or thumbs2 or thumbs3 as part
of the image URL, check results for the l1600 images.

In this test, I got the new web page to display l1600
images instead and some are truly full size and
greatly detailed, too.

Ebay auction item numbers and images...

Another example of what picclick does is to use the
above thumbs image URL Ebay item number:

http://thumbs3.picclick.com/d/l1600/pict/361732444430.jpg

It lacks a picture's name, but makes a shorter URL.

Zoom In and Out options...

The tiny + symbol appearing on the picture lets
us magnify images! The tiny - symbol lets us
switch back to the smaller view.

http://thumbs.picclick.com/d/l1600/pict/

That's the start of the item image shortcut here:

http://tinyurl.com/1600e

We add / then the Ebay item number and .jpg
http://tinyurl.com/1600e/12345678.jpg

Or as above: http://tinyurl.com/1600e/361732444430.jpg

This is because the tinyurl URL shortcut can be
added to with what follows the full URL for that
pict/ directory...

So it works just as well with this ebay alternative:

http://tinyurl.com/1600e plus / then its number.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/1600e/361732444430.jpg

Now we can see the original frame more clearly.

EDITING IMAGES!

A further development uses an online photo editor:

http://www.picmonkey.com

Click Edit, open a saved l1600 image then edit,
to straighten, crop and sharpen image clarity,
colour saturation and Museum Matte frame for it.
The resize option helped when I chose the greatest
picture quality for it to work at its best.

Picmonkey proved as useful as freebie photo editor
PC programs. So save edited images for reference!


Denis Martindale September 2016.