Setting up a photo gallery

[Timberdan]

Trying to set up a photo gallery. My photos are too large what size do I reduce them to I am running an iMac. Thanks Dan

[Scrappile]

I have set most my pictures to 1000-1500 Pixels.  That makes them somewhere around 4" x 5" or there about.  Don't know if they need to be that small but they look okay in my album.  I resize them with Photoscape.

Edited February 26, 2023 by Scrappile

[Dak0ta52]

If you're wanting to put them in a display album to show or possibly sell your cuttings, you can use any "draw" program and insert your pictures, 4-pictures and a regular 8 1/2 X 11 page. That's what I've done and then inserted the pictures back-to-back using the page sleeves. Works great for me. the pictures are about 4 X 5 or slightly larger. I do try to put all horizontal or all vertical pictures on a single page.

[Scrappile]

Dan, just to clarify, I assumed you were talking a photo album here on this site.  So my sizing was related to what I use to post pictures on this site in my albums. 

[Timberdan]

Thanks . Yes I just wanted to start a photo album on this site im not selling anything just wanted to display some of my work that I have done over the years I will try the 1000 - 1500 pixels and see what happens 

[Timberdan]

I give up tried a bunch of things and still too large of size . I think that I gave up on the posting pictures of my work when I joined the community a few years ago because the format or web site changed and I couldn't drag and drop my pics after the change anymore. Oh well at least I have some good advice from all you scrollers out there . I can't even believe that my profile pic loaded up but it was still too large for the circle as you can see LOL. I might have to get my 13 year old nephew to have a try at it this summer when he comes over. Anyway thanks for the advice . Keep on making sawdust!!!

[Scrappile]

@Travis I don't think it states in the album's section anything about size pictures need to be.  maybe it does but I have not read because I have had no problems when I set my pictures  at around 1000 pixels not that I even know what the means.  I always have my pictures saved a JPG or JPEG.

[Travis]

When it says the picture is too large, it refers to the filesize.....not the pixel dimensions.  I think it's set to 2.5megs, which is still a pretty large file.  Opening something larger than 2-3megs takes a lot of time and bandwidth to download.  Especially if folks are looking on a phone.  I know some standalone cameras will shoot 10+ megs.  At any rate, we try to limit it to a largish file to get quality, but not so large that it is a pain to download.  Plus, I have to pay for storage of all these photos, so I want to be careful about opening up the floodgates.

I can do this, though.  I'll bump it to 3.5megs maximum.  That should be enough for most high-quality phone images.  I'd imagine, most people are shooting on a phone anyway.

 

 

[Travis]

OK....I take that back.  I did some more research.  My software resizes photos to optimize the web browsing experience.  So if you upload a large photo, it won't affect the average member, because they are looking at a smaller version of that file.  They do have the option of downloading the original file.  Just hover over the image in the gallery and a button will appear called Image Tools, which will allow you to download the original file.

I'm removing the restriction on filesize for the gallery.  Upload away! 

 

[Scrappile]

Do not try to explain this to me, it would be a waste of time, I would not understand.  I have a picture, it is it's actual size which is like a little under 3k pixels in and measured as over 2 mega bytes.  I put it in photoscape.  I resize it to 1k pixels and it is then down in the  500K bytes or so... Been doing it for a long time and thought I was really smart. But is sound like I am still stupid.. I going back in my workshop and shut the door now..

[Timberdan]

Thanks Travis Draggin & Dropping away its working now!!!