How do I reduce the MG of my photos when uploading?
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When uploading my photos (often with poor/slow internet), it takes ages. Can I get Flickr to reduce the MG before uploading?
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What you need to do is to prepare and optimize your images before they are uploaded. Since most people are viewing websites on normal sized monitors, it is best to save save a copy of your photos at perhaps 800px wide and then upload those. In addition, you want to make sure they are saved at 72dpi since that is the web standard (and what a browser will display regardless) and uploading 200 or 300dpi images just wastes storage space and slows down loading times.
In photoshop, there is a “save for web & devices” in the file menu, and that will prepare your images and optimize them, but first make sure and resize them.
I don’t know about other image editing programs, but I suspect that some of the better ones have something like the photoshop feature. I think Apple’s iPhoto has an export or save for web feature as well.
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Can I get Flickr to reduce the MG before uploading?
Don’t take the largest photo size available to embed in your site.
Or what does this have to do with flickr?
tsp-if I remember correctly, PhotoShop’s “Save for web” strips out the EXIF information, for good or bad. :)
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Gimp will scale images then if you save with a different name there will be an option to select the amount of compression of the image – when I scale an image I will use the “unsharpen” enhance tool to sharpen the picture – this restores things from being scaled down – it also helps the colors much of the time.
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