Photo's on websites

CaffinePhil · 02-26-2008, 02:44 AM

Hi all,

I was just wondering how everybody displayed their images online? Do you use flickr, host on your own site and if you do host them yourself have you ever had any issues with space/bandwidth?

jowsefpirate · 02-28-2008, 11:14 AM

Im using flickr and friendster, so far im not having any problem with space, i have 350 pictures on friendster.

CaffinePhil · 02-29-2008, 04:15 AM

Are you hosting the pictures on their site and just linking to them from your site?

**3ncryptabl3_lick** · 03-01-2008, 09:57 AM

I use Flickr as well. Sometimes I'll host an image on my site, if its private or not really ment to be all that public.

Even a free, basic Flickr account is going to limit your images to 1024 max width or hieght. When it comes down to compression you can typically get that size down to about sub 30k without noticing any quality loss. So really bandwidth is only going to be an issue if you're hosting large, high quality images by the hundreds and they are all being accessed each month by hundreds or more people, know what I mean?

Of course it also depends on how much bandwidth you have available on a monthly basis. The math is pretty simple on that to get a rough estimation of how many images can be viewed versus how much BW you have.

zeruel · 03-08-2008, 12:04 AM

I usually use photobucket and flickr when displaying a not so personal images on the web.

jowsefpirate · 03-08-2008, 07:12 AM

flicker is good too..

randyranger · 03-08-2008, 07:14 AM

Nothing is more professional than hosting the images on your own server.

Alex Aguilar · 03-14-2008, 01:08 AM

I really like Picasa!

CaffinePhil · 03-14-2008, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Aguilar

I really like Picasa!

Isn't that photo editing software?

jowsefpirate · 03-15-2008, 08:51 AM

again for me the best thing to do to host your pictures is by flickr.

GDI · 03-19-2008, 09:59 AM

ı am hosting my pics on my server and never got a rpboem with bandwith cause the host company provided me unlimited bandwith

**ScriptMan** · 03-19-2008, 05:01 PM

I host all my images on my sites.

It does not take a lot of space on bandwidth if you understand compression and how little it affects web images. Not going to link drop here but I do have a couple of articles about this on a site of mine. PM or ask me if you care to review them.

GDI · 03-20-2008, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ScriptMan

I host all my images on my sites.

It does not take a lot of space on bandwidth if you understand compression and how little it affects web images. Not going to link drop here but I do have a couple of articles about this on a site of mine. PM or ask me if you care to review them.

Hi..

I am interested about this articles, i can review them on my blog..

send me a PM please

CaffinePhil · 03-20-2008, 03:36 AM

Me too, I'd also like to see the articles.

**ScriptMan** · 03-20-2008, 06:17 AM

I will just post it here but not as a live link. This page shows how little compression affects quality:

imagegenie.net/Web-Photography/Compression-Ratios-and-Image-Quality.php

The other two articles are linked from that page including some free resizer programs.

zeruel · 03-26-2008, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScriptMan

I will just post it here but not as a live link. This page shows how little compression affects quality:

imagegenie.net/Web-Photography/Compression-Ratios-and-Image-Quality.php

The other two articles are linked from that page including some free resizer programs.

Pretty nice. Thanks a lot for this...

stone · 04-12-2008, 04:48 AM

I've been using Irfanview recently, & been happy with the results. I hadn't given any thought to the compression feature, as cropping/resizing created pictures that easily loaded on dialup.

My current free host doesn't allow hot-linking to the pics. So, I use most of the options already mentioned...... ie: picassa, fliker, photobucket, even myspace!

Google has made it difficult to hot-link to the pics on picassa, so using that tends to be hit or miss. Fliker has given me problems with the pictures not showing up, & my free webhost has a tendency to lose my pictures, making it necessary to reload some of the same pictures from time to time!

stone · 04-14-2008, 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScriptMan

I will just post it here but not as a live link. This page shows how little compression affects quality:

imagegenie.net/Web-Photography/Compression-Ratios-and-Image-Quality.php

After reading these articles, I've begun experimenting with the compression feature on Irfanview. Thanks.... I took a 20 kb down to 5 without noticeable difference in quality! This is going to help.

CaffinePhil · 03-26-2008, 07:03 AM

Cheers Scriptman, thats made me realise its something I need to spend a little more time looking at.

CaffinePhil · 04-14-2008, 09:05 AM

Irfanview looks like my kind of tool, just going to go and have a play now if it can help that much with compression.