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I often upload trip or holiday photos fro friends/family to view. I now find that the file sizes are too large to upload to a site such as shutterfly.com. I notice many people use pbase or flckr. Do they have a mechanism for reducing file size as you upload it? Are there other alternatives besides reducing file size one by one?
 
My current photo collection is around 40 GB. If the 4GB limit a month includes uploads (not just downloads) I would need 10 months just to upload all my stuff. At full blast from my lowly adsl connection I could do it in 10 days if there was no limit, and from work I can do it in half a day. Which just goes to show that unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth go hand in hand. I don't expect my lowly pictures to attract many visitors, but I do need a lot of bandwidth just to upload the stuff.
Jeff Varszegi said:
Unlimited storage. Good features.
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You can choose to get the "pro" version for $99/year which has 16GB of traffic per month, or "power" which gives 8GB a month. I am pretty sure that the bandwidth is not tracked on uploads; I don't see any of my uploads on usage reports. In any case, I don't think you'll get far trying to host your 40GB of pictures at pbase. You can also upgrade/downgrade accounts.
 
I was hoping that one of these websites made it easy: We send them a 3mg file and they reduce it to fit their parameters automatically. I'm not so worried about using up space, but the time for uploading--even with dsl.
 
Here's a great free tool to do just that. It can reduce the size of all images in a folder at once. It can also apply sharpening to your photos, as reducing the size usually makes the photos a bit soft.

What I like best about it is that the file size that I end up with is typically smaller than other programs I used, yet the quality seems better. Even photoshop creates bigger files.

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/
 
I second the comment about Irfanview. I have thousands of pictures posted at my site, http://www.northcountyphotos.com , so file size is a huge consideration for me. I use the batch conversion in Irfranview to resize to 576x384, quality level of 65, and get file sizes about 40k-50k, with decent quality. For example, I just uploaded 832 pictures from today's ice skating show, and the downsized files took up only 32Mb total.

The resizing took an hour or so to process on my PC, but only took a couple minutes to set up and get started, after which it ran by itself. There is no way I would open up each picture individually, resize or crop it, and then save it.

Irfranview also works great as a quick viewer for your photos also, and the price is right (free!)
 
dovbaer said:
I was hoping that one of these websites made it easy: We send them
a 3mg file and they reduce it to fit their parameters
automatically. I'm not so worried about using up space, but the
time for uploading--even with dsl.
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PBase automatically makes reduced size images. PBase defaults to 800x600 (termed "large") for display. Anything larger than 800x600 (i.e., what you upload) will be linked as the "Original." PBase will also generate "medium" and "small."

Personally, I don't want to upload full resolution originals (I flatter myself that I might have something worth stealing), so I manually downsize to 800x600 before I upload to my PBase account.

Wayne Larmon
 
Paul De Bra said:
My current photo collection is around 40 GB. If the 4GB limit a
month includes uploads (not just downloads) I would need 10 months
just to upload all my stuff. At full blast from my lowly adsl
connection I could do it in 10 days if there was no limit, and from
work I can do it in half a day. Which just goes to show that
unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth go hand in hand. I don't
expect my lowly pictures to attract many visitors, but I do need a
lot of bandwidth just to upload the stuff.
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Unlimited is unlimited :)
BTW, uploads do not count on your bandwidth. Click on "more info" on this page:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/faqgen

All the best,

Andy
 
You could install a tool kit such as ImageMagick, then make a small registry hack that would allow you to right-click on selected image files (you would have to add registry tags for each file type) and resize automatically. I've done similar things in the past, not particularly difficult to achieve.

Using this technique you could set the destination directory to be a specific location (eg a folder on your desktop) so that you always knew where to go to get your files for uploading as well. To use it would be as simple as selecting a number of files, then right-clicking and selecting "downsize" or whatever you choose to call it.

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Sam

 
Mr_Bonehead said:
You could install a tool kit such as ImageMagick, then make a small
registry hack that would allow you to right-click on selected image
files (you would have to add registry tags for each file type) and
resize automatically. I've done similar things in the past, not
particularly difficult to achieve.
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Could you give a bit more detail on how to do this? I'm a programmer and have worked with ImageMagick in the past (with CygWin Perl), but I'm not a Windows programmer, so I don't know much about manipulating the registry.

Wayne Larmon
 
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