Picture hosting?

[Mr Noble]

Can anyone help me with picture hosting.

I use fotango and its a job to get them from the camera on to the forum, then when I do they are tiny!!

How do some folk post large size pictures up.

Do you know of any programes that resize a set of pics at once so I don't have to resize them all individually in photoshop.

Any help greatfully recieved.

Thanks. Greg

[GregE240]

Greg, try www.webshots.com

OK, the client is a bit of a "I'll take your PC over" if you let it (changes wallpaper and screensaver), but it allows you to upload FULL SIZE IMAGES into your albums.

If you check the Minihoon picture thread you'll see my gallery - I shot all of my pics at 6MP so each pic was well over a meg, even after tidying up.

Fotango is easy, but the picture size is a joke, frankly.

HTH,
Greg

[beano500]

There are quite a few - Photobucket, Webshots (wouldn't recommend if you want to link though) and smugmug - plenty of people will gve you a steer...

Mr Noble said:

Do you know of any programes that resize a set of pics at once so I don't have to resize them all individually in photoshop.

Photoshop!


I think you need to record an action? (Not something I have got to grips with yet) But you have the right program!

[HankScorpio]

A few folks are using mine:
www.hankscorpio.com/publicgallery/
it'll resize to 750 wide in the PH one or 600 in the general one.
Doesn't retain originals, only the resized.

Help yourself....

>> Edited by HankScorpio on Monday 9th May 11:10

[HankScorpio]

Actually, I've forgotten what it does do

I *think* the PH one does two resizes, 700 and 1280, (or it might keep the original, I can;t remmeber and don't have access from here) try it and find out!

[joust]

Mr Noble said:

Do you know of any programes that resize a set of pics at once so I don't have to resize them all individually in photoshop.

www.creativemac.com/2002/04_apr/tutorials/psbatch.htm

Or - for quick and easy - Microsoft Image Resizer from Microsoft 'power tools'

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

J

[Mr Noble]

Thanks chaps. Think I am not really missing too much then. I did try webshots before fotango but it was tricky to post.

Guess its mini shots for me then.

Thanks.

I will ask my pro photographer friend about setting up actions. I have ps 7 so it should be capable.

Thanks GN

[V6GTO]

Mr Noble said:

Guess its mini shots for me then.

No need Greg...just try www.photobucket.com

They automatically resize but it takes longer to download. Files 750px wide only take a few seconds usually, and you get full screen shots. Full size files take a couple of minutes to upload for the same result. So you might as well (in PS 7) go Image>Image Size>type in 750 in the relevent box>OK>Save As. Easy and saves time.

Martin.

[Ex-biker]

www.photobucket.com

You can upload the pic full size if you want. It can take a little time though.

Best resize in Photoshop before uploading.

You can upload multiple pics and its just a case of copy & paste to link the pic to PH.

It is easy to use too. (must be, I use it)

[tuscan_v8]

I use Flickr amd found it excellent

www.flickr.com

[rico]

I use my own servers



Mail me via my profile if you fancy spending a few quid and getting a proper hosting package

[markbarton]

Bit late to the party, but I use www.fotopic.net and can recommend them. Free 250MB storage, any size image, no problems linking.

[Mr Noble]

Thanks chaps. The image resizer above has removed a huge amount of tedium from posting. As I have an account with fotango and over 100 images on there already I think i will just have to stick with small pics.

Thanks for help though.
GN

[thunderstruck]

www.irfanview.com is an excellent free program for resizing and doing simple manipulations (colour, contrast, cropping etc)

www.imageshack.us for hosting

[Bee_Jay]

A much nicer resizer with better options and still free is here: www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Also, for hosting I use PBase, cheap and worth a look - allows direct linking and pictures can be as big as you want...