Author Topic: Photo Posting and Optimizing Tutorial; UPDATED (Read 16773 times)

LogDawg · « **Reply #20 on:** January 11, 2008, 05:14:28 pm »

Hi Jeff,

When I reduce my photos to the correct loadable size they lose most of their quality. I see your photos look great. Is it because my photos are to large to begin with? I am starting out with 1120x 840 sized photos at 426kb. Thanks.

Kevin

Furby · « **Reply #21 on:** January 11, 2008, 05:32:05 pm »

How are you reducing them?
If using xat, it works MUCH better to change the size of the pic to under 450 pixels on the longest side and THEN compress the file size.
That way you are messing with the info in the pic less.

LogDawg · « **Reply #22 on:** January 11, 2008, 05:49:51 pm »

Thanks Furby,

Yes I am using xat and reducing to 450. I just realized in the last few minutes that I was reading the scale wrong on the jpeg compression mode so that helped a little but I still see some really sharp photos on the site and can't get mine to look that good. I wasn't sure if changing the settings on my camera would help or not. I'll keep reading and experimenting. Thanks again.

Furby · « **Reply #23 on:** January 11, 2008, 05:51:38 pm »

On the compression scale you can go up to 45,000.

Jeff · « **Reply #24 on:** January 11, 2008, 05:52:51 pm »

I actually start with photos that are in excess of 2.5 megabytes from an 8 megapixel camera. You shouldn't need to change your camera settings.

LogDawg · « **Reply #25 on:** January 11, 2008, 06:02:39 pm »

I told Santa to bring me a new camera but I guess I been a bad boy so I got put up with my old one. Maybe thats my problem, not good enough quality to start with. Thanks guys.

Jeff · « **Reply #26 on:** January 11, 2008, 06:26:26 pm »

You've got plenty. no worry there.

New Inn Wood Man · « **Reply #27 on:** January 12, 2008, 04:32:47 am »

Jeff,

I am just learning the photo posting thing and could do with a bit of advice please

. My problem is to do twith reducing the file size to under the 44k without making the picture quality too poor or the picture too small. The files I am starting off with are 1.5m and using web resizer they are reducing down but I have to reduce the size and quality to get the file size small enough. Any tips here please?

Richard

Jeff · « **Reply #28 on:** January 12, 2008, 08:05:44 am »

If you go up and click on the help button in the menu bar, you will find a link to a photo posting tutorial that gives you some information using a shareware program to compress file size that is free at www.xat.com

Dana · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:10:33 am »

I tried to load a few photos today I recieved this message.

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I tried to load anyway and none were successfully loaded. I assume the error is the problem? I optimized at 450pix and 35k

flip · « **Reply #30 on:** September 10, 2008, 06:16:52 am »

Having problems getting photos compressed from my new dig cam. I am set on 3 meg. When I go to resize and compress I turns a pixely, any ideas??

beenthere · « **Reply #31 on:** September 10, 2008, 09:00:03 am »

Quote from: flip on September 10, 2008, 06:16:52 am

Having problems getting photos compressed from my new dig cam. I am set on 3 meg. When I go to resize and compress I turns a pixely, any ideas??

Not sure what the last few words mean..

"I turns a pixely..."

But resize first...that is get the pixels on longest side of your photo to less than 500.

Then save, to a file size under the 42 kb upper limit.

Not doing the pixel resize first, will make for a small photo with large file size.
Hope this helps.

Rocky_J · « **Reply #32 on:** September 21, 2008, 06:35:32 pm »

How do I get the photo gallery to display in English? For some reason it's displaying in Spanish (I think) for me. I'm not even going to attempt it if it's not in English.

Dave Shepard · « **Reply #33 on:** September 21, 2008, 06:46:27 pm »

There is a box to select language, but that probably in Spanish too.

It's the box that is under the phrase "Powered by Coppermine".

Dave

Rocky_J · « **Reply #34 on:** September 21, 2008, 07:06:46 pm »

Thanks Dave! I thought it was a conspiracy to make us all Spanish!

Dave Shepard · « **Reply #35 on:** September 21, 2008, 07:15:41 pm »

Your welcome!

I now have mine set on Deutsch.

Dave

petefrombearswamp · « **Reply #36 on:** January 18, 2009, 07:17:56 am »

I have a mac, How do I do photo posting?

Jeff · « **Reply #37 on:** January 18, 2009, 07:37:04 am »

Not at all sure about a mac. The uploading process has been pretty much automated if your mac is java enabled. When you make a post, look for the link under the post box you type in that says:

Java Uploader (re-sizes for you)

You will have to accept the applet plugin the first use, then wait for the page to completely load.

Warbird · « **Reply #38 on:** January 18, 2009, 12:23:48 pm »

If you have your Mac locked down like I do, you may have to accept for your browser to "listen for incoming requests" every time you click the upload link.

I've uploaded a few pics from my Mac with the new java loader. It's pretty slick.

turningfool · « **Reply #39 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:58:59 pm »

great upgrade jeff..no more wrong sized pictures anymore and a snap to use..ty

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