Hi All,
I’m sure this has been covered but cannot see it exactly.
I just want to have some pictures on my site and generally just upload some.
Lately, the last month or so, uploading has become very slow.
Now, I’m aware it’s primarily my fault, as I just uploaded my edited shots and some are 60 odd MB.
I’ve relied on jAlbum doing all the necessary maths etc.

Should I make the change and say for example, upload smaller jpegs or smaller tifs?
Yes I know it relates to resolution as well, I just wonder whether my problem is uploading too big an image and bogging jAlbum down…

Cheers.

Thanks RobM. I might try that.
I guess I could also just jpeg the pictures I want to upload and then delete them from my PC once uploaded, so that I only have the TIFs at home.
This question was also raised as I wasn't getting full screen in the album online. I looked for other skins. I just want the images to fill the screen.

John

Thanks again Rob. It’s interesting that I changed my settings to 2000 x 2000 and it said many of my images were not high enough res! I know the file sizes were high, I’ll crank up my album and take a look at all image settings..

John

And using 2000x2000 as image bounds is a little misguided. The biggest monitor in common circulation is the iMac 27, which is 2560x1440. So any slide image larger than that is a bit pointless. To ensure full size, bounds of 2560x1440 would do the trick.

But remember that if a skin forces an image to occupy the entire screen, the image is going to get cropped unless it just happens to be exactly the same aspect ratio as the monitor. That's why almost no skins offer that type of "full screen" - photographers don't want their images to be cropped arbitrarily.

Right, I've spent a bit of time with this.

Firstly, my main issue turned out to be some issue with connectivity to my Synology box.
So, I copied all pictures to my laptop including the album settings and loading was much better; even with the original image sizes.

Before I did above, I resized copies of all pictures to a max of 2000 pixels and saved an pngs.
I uploaded these and was not happy with the results online!

I decided then to go the automatic route. I chose the high res folder as source and batch jpeged all to a new folder using Photoshop's Sc.ripts\Image Processor
This created a new folder of 238 MB as apposed to 1.2 gig..... that helped..... ya think!

I'm pleased with the album now. Pictures are good enough for viewing and I obviously still have the high res folder locally when I want to look at them.

Thanks all again.

Oh I tried Mirage at 2000 and the images were off screen. I went back to Photoblogger plus 1000x750 and that'll do for me. I've fiddled long enough for now.

John

Edited by: windmilljohn on 8 Apr 2022, 15:41

Mirage is not a responsive skin, so the image size won't adapt to the size of the screen.

Photoblogger is responsive, but 1000x750 image bounds will produce images that are really too small for a standard 1920x1080 monitor.

Overkill, but only when it comes to portrait mode photos - 2000x1000 will achieve the same visible results, but with files that are sometimes much smaller.

If you ever want to set image bounds for specific images try My plug-in which makes it easier to do.