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The pictures I place into questions and answers appear very huge. They are always scaled to the width of the text that is good for the wide, low pictures but not for the narrow and high pictures. Some screenshot may span over all screen creating the wrong impression that the contributor proves something crucial for humanity or at least SO community with that figure. See example.

Would it be possible to have an option to scale the picture half width of text area and use another half for text like in Wikipedia? Or at least have an option like "half text area width centered?". These should be options for the text editor, not for the viewer.

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  • Just use img tags and set the width attribute as a workaround. Plain Markdown doesn't support image scaling
    – slhck
    Commented Feb 1, 2013 at 8:38

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Yes, just add an s, m or l (lowercase) at the end of the imgur link before the ".png".

For example, the image https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32.png can be made:

Small:

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32s.png

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32s.png

Medium:

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32m.png

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32m.png

Large:

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32l.png

https://i.sstatic.net/9tE32l.png

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You can also use the Thumbnail Uploader Stack Exchange browser extension.

Screen shot

This will use the image size you select via the radio button or at a size you specify. It will also create a link to the full size image if you want.

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  • Ah, I didn't know about this one. I'll remember it for the next time someone asks about photo uploading / sizing. ;)
    – JonW
    Commented Feb 1, 2013 at 12:17

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