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mpixel said:
Hi Francesco,

I like the site but like many others I found it very slow to load
(once loaded it’s OK).
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Thank you for the feedback mpixel... I am working as we "speak" to reduce the size of the thumbnails and the images. Right now PS has saved them at about 150KB for each image and 15KB for each thumb... way too much! I didn't notice until now. I am fighting with PS to create an action to Save for Web and really get what the Save for Web dialog window shows in the bottom left corner - in terms of size.
mpixel said:
It seems that you have to wait two loads. One for the white squares
to show that they have an image and one for this image to become
available to view. I am on an un-congested 10 Mbps connection btw.

There are some really great images on your site, particularly under
portfolio and especially under the portfolio/details section.
However, if you are trying to break into food photography, I would
have thought that your food images would have been given more
prominence.
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I am still working on my portfolio. I am creating a new section about food with some shots from Uncle Jacks and other test shots from home and I will keep adding as I go...
mpixel said:
Having said that, I am sorry to say that I have a pretty strong
criticism of the Uncle Jack’s section; all the meat images looked
burnt and some of them looked burnt on the outside and raw on the
inside. Also, I don’t think that the 11th image shows whatever it
is showing to good effect.
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I understand and appreciate the criticism. The chef brought me the food too quickly and before I got to shoot it it was already cold. This is one reason why colors are weird and also it was my first shoot in a restaurant and i didn't have my softbox yet...
mpixel said:
I am not a food photographer but I do know that the way food is
prepared for photography is not necessarily the way it is prepared
for consumption. Of course that’s just my opinion and the meat
images could have others licking their lips but I think the meat
needed to be prepared differently before that session.
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Agree
mpixel said:
I see from your site that you are looking to work with food
designers so I guess that you feel that you could do with some
input from specialists in that field; hopefully you will be able to
build an excellent book.
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I hope so, I look forward meeting some nice food designer to start playing with well prepared food. Anybody? :-)

Thanks for your comment mpixel,

Francesco
 
the thumbs should be a max of 1-2k and I would think that they will be even smaller.

Your pictures at the vertical size of 400 or so pixels shouldn't even be 30-50k for decent/good quality

That WILL make difference but above all, make sure you don't PRELOAD every full size image when the thumbnails load. Load the thumbs at 1k each or whatever and THEN, when someone chooses to click on a picture, THEN let that picture load.

I just took a quick look at a picture in Photoshop which has a lot of detail and when exporting for the web at 60x40 pixels, Jpeg quality on High gives a 1.4kb file, on Medium gives me a .9kb file and as a 256 color Gif, 3.7kb

George
 
Georgi said:
the thumbs should be a max of 1-2k and I would think that they will
be even smaller.

Your pictures at the vertical size of 400 or so pixels shouldn't
even be 30-50k for decent/good quality

That WILL make difference but above all, make sure you don't
PRELOAD every full size image when the thumbnails load. Load the
thumbs at 1k each or whatever and THEN, when someone chooses to
click on a picture, THEN let that picture load.
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This is a discussion I had previously. I have tried both modes and everyone seemed to agree that it is better this way, otherwise you loose the immediateness of being able to just browse all over them... the User Interface reason behind this is that the thumbs are way too small to actually understand what you are going to see, therefore pretty much everyone will start browsing one after the other, which makes the preloading of all the pics on the page an improvement.
Georgi said:
I just took a quick look at a picture in Photoshop which has a lot
of detail and when exporting for the web at 60x40 pixels, Jpeg
quality on High gives a 1.4kb file, on Medium gives me a .9kb file
and as a 256 color Gif, 3.7kb
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I agree with you... too bad that Photoshop is so dumb that I can't write an action to convert a tree of folders full of images using "save for web"...

it can be done only using saveas but in that case the thumbs will have size 11KB each... So I have to do everything by hand... which sucks, but I am doing it anyway...

Thanks for you reply,

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
It's a pain in the as* to use but it works.

Try doing it with a few files that are open (the problem is that you will have to crop each one separately if you want to have an exact crop or something like that).

First, make an action and call it save to thumbs or whatever where you do ONE picture and go through the whole save process INCLUDING resizing and all that and then do batch processing and see what it does. It works pretty good.

You'll have to experiment a bit because there is a save as override command and I can't remember if you should or should not use it.

Even if you have the site the way you have it now which is what you say people like, you can still speed it up if you resize the images. There's no way an image that size needs to be over 30-40k

George
 
http://www.greenteaphoto.com/

Now, thanks to the input of some of those who replied, the site works about 10 times faster loading the thumbnails and about 4 times faster loading the images. If you have already browsed the site with the previous version you might not necessarily notice the difference unless you delete the temprary internet files, but trust me on this one ;-)

Thanks again!

More feedback is welcome!!!

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
Hi Francesco, I don't have your website skills so my website is a self -content -loading template software. I made the design as clean as the software would allow, however some of the objects like scrollbar are rigidly not changeable. There SHOULD be a way to center content on the about & content pages, but the image & text is fixed position ; ). I also would like some larger files than the limit of 500X440 to show the detail and res of my work for professionals.

....It is a bit of a compromise for me at this point. I want better website software since more and more editors & art directors are going to websites first instead of waiting for books....thanks, ciao, William
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Hi Francesco,

cool new site. I like it a lot. The only thing I really dislike is that the thumbnails are sooooo veeeery slow and one cannot select a picture before the thumbnail is loaded. Maybe some work that respect will make the site a perfect one.

Greetings,
Michael

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Hei Francesco, your page is getting a bit faster, now I had a look at your pictures. Some realy nice shots, but your food section could make you more harm than it will give you jobs. The food at uncle Jack's doesn't look good. Very burnt and you have to work a lot with you lighting.
1st. shot in 3rd row is just awfull, and the others...
Do yourself somthing good and remove the stuff.

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Andreas Knoop
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Gabe said:
Love it....loads fast on my computer and love the thumbnails. I
hate images that pop up in new windows. Great job.
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Thank you very much!!!
Gabe234504 said:
Did you do it yourself?
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Yep, all my work... I got inspiration from some template I saw once on the internet and tried to code something similar. It came out not too mad given my total ignorance in Flash :)

I still have some features I'd like to implement some day, such as browser-friendly URLs for direct linking to pictures and albums, but I have no idea if/when I will ever the time to do that :)
Gabe234504 said:
Cheers,
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http://www.perspectiveye.com
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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
I kind of agree... I didn't have any lights for that job. It was my very first try at food photography and my result has been already extensively trashed here on this very forum... Can you see at least one or two shots that could be saved? Now that I bought my first softbox I feel that I could get much better results... Unfortunately I am really not that artistic in food design so I am in need to find some food designer to work with...

Thanks for your comment!

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
I liked your site to start with and now it's better :)

Did you batch process by the way?

George
 
I had to batch process folder by folder because the stupid "save for web" action that i created was putting all the files in the same place, so I had to manually change the destination folder for each of the individual albums, which was a pain, but the final result is definetely worth it.

Now I just need to understand how to do direct URL linking and then work on the actual pictures in the portfolio, following some of the suggestions from other users.

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
Any designer or editor will move on. "What does this guy think my time is worth?" they'll ask as they hit the button out.

Zidar
Alaska

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the pale of any acceptable human conduct.'
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Its a lovely site but the programming is outshining the photography a bit.

I think you need to edit out 70% of the shots, be really hard with yourself and dump the shots you know just dont make the grade. This may leave a more sparse site at first but it will be more impressive. It will also help you raise your own standards of what you consider acceptable from now on.

Editing is a very real and useful skill which I have not mastered yet. But at the end of the day you have to decide what is good enough to display on the site
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