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Reducing File Size / Sharing Photos / Album Help
Greetings!
I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave |
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Dave wrote: Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave It's not free, but the cost is trivial to open an account with Fototime or any of a half dozen other picture sharing websites. There are actually a few free sites but they make the viewer watch pop-up ads :-( (No free lunch). You can leave the images at high resolution to preserve detail because Fototime allows the viewer to look at the pictures at several different resolutions from thumbnails to full size. see: http://www.fototime.com for details Bob Williams |
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Hi Dave,
Best would be to resize them for web use, before uploading them. Photos resized to about 800x600 should take about 100K each. You can do this through various batch processing tools - you can find free ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware. Some packages such as paint shop pro and photoshop have batch processing as well, if you have those. Regards, Julian ------- Shuttertalk Forums Member http://www.shuttertalk.com Show off your photos here! Dave wrote: Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave |
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Hi Dave,
Best would be to resize them for web use, before uploading them. Photos resized to about 800x600 should take about 100K each. You can do this through various batch processing tools - you can find free ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware. Some packages such as paint shop pro and photoshop have batch processing as well, if you have those. Regards, Julian ------- Shuttertalk Forums Member http://www.shuttertalk.com Show off your photos here! Dave wrote: Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave |
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"Dave" wrote
Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! I think if you take that approach, the city engineering department will simply brush you off as a trouble-maker/lunatic. If someone asked me to look through 60 photos on-line, I'd simply say, "Thank you, we'll look into it," and get on with doing something else. If you expect them to look at your pictures, cut it down to 3 or 4 photos. If you can't show the road problems in that many pictures, I'd say the road doesn't need repair. |
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"Dave" wrote
Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! I think if you take that approach, the city engineering department will simply brush you off as a trouble-maker/lunatic. If someone asked me to look through 60 photos on-line, I'd simply say, "Thank you, we'll look into it," and get on with doing something else. If you expect them to look at your pictures, cut it down to 3 or 4 photos. If you can't show the road problems in that many pictures, I'd say the road doesn't need repair. |
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Julian Tan wrote:
Hi Dave, Best would be to resize them for web use, before uploading them. Photos resized to about 800x600 should take about 100K each. You can do this through various batch processing tools - you can find free ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware. Some packages such as paint shop pro and photoshop have batch processing as well, if you have those. Regards, Julian ------- Shuttertalk Forums Member http://www.shuttertalk.com Show off your photos here! Dave wrote: Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave WindowsXP will do this resizing for you and reduce the file size well below 100k. Of course if the person you send the picture to wants to print it at 8x10, you may have to send it in the full size format. |
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Julian Tan wrote:
Hi Dave, Best would be to resize them for web use, before uploading them. Photos resized to about 800x600 should take about 100K each. You can do this through various batch processing tools - you can find free ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware. Some packages such as paint shop pro and photoshop have batch processing as well, if you have those. Regards, Julian ------- Shuttertalk Forums Member http://www.shuttertalk.com Show off your photos here! Dave wrote: Greetings! I have taken a series of photos of a local street that is in a bad state of repair. I plan on sharing these photos with the city street department and certain city officials in an attempt to bring about the much-needed repair. At this time the 60 photos total about 100 MB, running from 698 KB to 2.6 MB in size. All are Exif-JPEG @ 1984 x 1488. I would like to put these into a public, online album, and share them with an email link. Questions: 1. Where can I find free, online, shareable storage that will allow me to upload 60 MB worth of photos? 2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? Will the details of the street's condition be lost if I re-save the photos in a lesser resolution? If I do re-save the photos to a different resolution, what is recommended? 3. Are there any other items I need to be aware in sharing these photos? 4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Any / all suggestions are appreciated! TIA! -- Dave WindowsXP will do this resizing for you and reduce the file size well below 100k. Of course if the person you send the picture to wants to print it at 8x10, you may have to send it in the full size format. |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:15 -0700, "Dave" wrote:
4. I am considering putting copyright marks on each photo. How is this best accomplished? Why? Do you really want to imply that you're restricting what your audience can do with the images? Are the pictures such high art that someone would consider stealing them and making their own fortune off them? |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:15 -0700, Dave wrote:
2. What is the best way to reduce the file size of the photos without losing the clarity? JpegSizer resharpens photos after resizing, so it will do an excellent job of preserving keeping your image quality. It also handles large batches of images really well. See link below. It's free to try for 30 days, and I'm sure you can work fast enough to avoid paying a dime! Peter -- ================================================== ======= Need to resize images for email attachments or web pages? Try JpegSizer at http://jpegsizer.tangotools.com ================================================== ======= |
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