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E. Preparing photos for the site (v7)
1- SIZE - Pictures take up a lot of space and make viewing a page very slow if done over a modem. A
standard digital photo can take 150-300K. On a 28.8 modem this one photo can take 2-5 minutes to
appear. A page full of photos will take 30 minutes. Therefore the photo must be adjusted using a PC
photo editor. They all vary but you will want to do as many of the below as possible without ruining the
photo
- Crop to critical part of photo
- Reduce the size (dimensions of the photo, not the same as cropping)
- If you want the photo to take up the entire screen it should be 770 wide and 420 pixels long
- If you want the photo to be a small print which links to the same full size version it should be about
150 pixels high. Give these photos the same name as the full size photo but add -T to he end to
indicate it is a "thumbnail print". In this case the thumbnail gets added to the page and the full size is
just uploaded tot he site but not added to a page. You just link to it as per instructions on adding
content item 15
- Photos placed on a page with other photos should be around 250 by 300 pixels
- Reduce resolution
- Save for web (JPG )format (added photos must be .jpg not .jpeg, so you may have to rename the
extension)
The faces on the individual member page each take 2K from original photos of 150K. This changed the
page viewing time from an hour to about 30 seconds (depending on access speed).
This process works well with a professional photo editor. Less so with the home PC variety photo
editor.
You can of course put the photos on anyway but they may only be viewable by those with high-speed
connections. Also if to many large photos go on we will continually have to buy more space. One large
unadjusted photo could be a dollar a year.
If your PC caches (keeps locally on your PC) recently used web pages then you may notice the pages
retrieve much more quickly the second time. (Remember that if you or someone else has updated a
page you may have to click on the browser’s reload or refresh buttons to see the new results)
2- NAMING CONVENTIONS – All pictures are kept in one file. If you up load a picture with the same
name as an existing one it will replace the previous version. Therefore always rename each of your
photos before up loading to names that start with your first name or 3 initials. It will be easiest to do
that as you save them after you are adjusting them in the photo editor (as per paragraph 1 above).
This will also help you find your photos on the site. The more descriptive the name the less likely that
it will replace an old photo. A good name for a photo Jeanne took of her two children would be JWF-
Xmas-2000-jessica-bryan. If she had a page of photos from Christmas 2000 and they all started with
JWF-xmas-2000 then they would sort together in the file and be easy to find as a group and one day
potentially easy to delete. It will also tell you these photos are used on Jeanne’s Christmas 2000
page. Please use this naming convention, as we will eventually have hundreds of photos in the same
file. I have made it a practice to add the -O end of the name of my photos to indicate this is an
original, -R for regular full size, -C for cropped photos, -T for thumbnails used to link to other photos.
3- Yahoo has a photo album site, which we may link to and may simplify some of this. But I have not
fully reviewed this yet.
4- You may want to send some photos to me (Martin) for adjustment if you do not have a tool to do it.
NOTE: the 24 photos used on the individual member page are named by with each persons name
followed by a 1 (i.e. jeremy1.jpg) never delete thoes photos or reuse that name for another photo.
You can however reuse that or any photo already on the site to show up on another page by getting
your photo from the imported pictures file (after clicking on pictures arrow down where it says
collection and scroll to the bottom for imported pictures. Of course if the pcture "owner" ever
deletes the photo it will also be gone from your page) Call Martin before deleting anything the first
time.
E. Preparing photos for the site (v7)
1- SIZE - Pictures take up a lot of space and make viewing a page very slow if done over a modem. A
standard digital photo can take 150-300K. On a 28.8 modem this one photo can take 2-5 minutes to
appear. A page full of photos will take 30 minutes. Therefore the photo must be adjusted using a PC
photo editor. They all vary but you will want to do as many of the below as possible without ruining the
photo
- Crop to critical part of photo
- Reduce the size (dimensions of the photo, not the same as cropping)
- If you want the photo to take up the entire screen it should be 770 wide and 420 pixels long
- If you want the photo to be a small print which links to the same full size version it should be about
150 pixels high. Give these photos the same name as the full size photo but add -T to he end to
indicate it is a "thumbnail print". In this case the thumbnail gets added to the page and the full size is
just uploaded tot he site but not added to a page. You just link to it as per instructions on adding
content item 15
- Photos placed on a page with other photos should be around 250 by 300 pixels
- Reduce resolution
- Save for web (JPG )format (added photos must be .jpg not .jpeg, so you may have to rename the
extension)
The faces on the individual member page each take 2K from original photos of 150K. This changed the
page viewing time from an hour to about 30 seconds (depending on access speed).
This process works well with a professional photo editor. Less so with the home PC variety photo
editor.
You can of course put the photos on anyway but they may only be viewable by those with high-speed
connections. Also if to many large photos go on we will continually have to buy more space. One large
unadjusted photo could be a dollar a year.
If your PC caches (keeps locally on your PC) recently used web pages then you may notice the pages
retrieve much more quickly the second time. (Remember that if you or someone else has updated a
page you may have to click on the browser’s reload or refresh buttons to see the new results)
2- NAMING CONVENTIONS – All pictures are kept in one file. If you up load a picture with the same
name as an existing one it will replace the previous version. Therefore always rename each of your
photos before up loading to names that start with your first name or 3 initials. It will be easiest to do
that as you save them after you are adjusting them in the photo editor (as per paragraph 1 above).
This will also help you find your photos on the site. The more descriptive the name the less likely that
it will replace an old photo. A good name for a photo Jeanne took of her two children would be JWF-
Xmas-2000-jessica-bryan. If she had a page of photos from Christmas 2000 and they all started with
JWF-xmas-2000 then they would sort together in the file and be easy to find as a group and one day
potentially easy to delete. It will also tell you these photos are used on Jeanne’s Christmas 2000
page. Please use this naming convention, as we will eventually have hundreds of photos in the same
file. I have made it a practice to add the -O end of the name of my photos to indicate this is an
original, -R for regular full size, -C for cropped photos, -T for thumbnails used to link to other photos.
3- Yahoo has a photo album site, which we may link to and may simplify some of this. But I have not
fully reviewed this yet.
4- You may want to send some photos to me (Martin) for adjustment if you do not have a tool to do it.
NOTE: the 24 photos used on the individual member page are named by with each persons name
followed by a 1 (i.e. jeremy1.jpg) never delete thoes photos or reuse that name for another photo.
You can however reuse that or any photo already on the site to show up on another page by getting
your photo from the imported pictures file (after clicking on pictures arrow down where it says
collection and scroll to the bottom for imported pictures. Of course if the pcture "owner" ever
deletes the photo it will also be gone from your page) Call Martin before deleting anything the first
time.
