Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

[Wayne M.]

Well it's time to join the 21st century. Armed with my digital camera and some 15,000 35mm slides (not ALL Corvettes ) dating to the mid-60's [which I hope to start selectively digitizing in the next few months], I'd like to share with you fellow-Boarders as the occasion presents.

Couldn't find explicit jpeg posting instructions on the NCRS site, so any hints would be helpful (practical image size, etc). Am vaguely aware of hosting sites such as villagephotos and photobucket, but can you recommend a few ?

TIA

[Michael H.]

Re: Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

Wayne,

Villagephoto is one of my favorites and always works well. It is quite confusing at first but once you get it, it's simple. If you have nationwide free calling, give me a call in a few hours and I'll help ya right through it. Going to yet another local car show but should be back by about 3:30-4:00 eastern. I'll send my #. In the meantime, put a few of your pic's in your "my pictures" folder.

[John H.]

Re: Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

Wayne -

I've used Village Photo for several years, and have had excellent service; they have free accounts, but those have some limitations on daily access bandwidth and the number of images they'll host. I have a paid account (about $3.00 a month) that allows me to store up to 6,000 images, has unlimited daily access bandwidth and direct linking from other sites (like this one), allows direct linking of photos to eBay auctions, etc.

I always re-size images to 640x480 before uploading - that way they fill the screen nicely on any site, but don't force folks to have to scroll horizontally to see them (that's a PITA). If you don't have a graphics program to re-size images, Village Photo has a handy one right there on the site. If someone needs a photo of something and I have it on the computer (but not on the photo site), I can upload it, get the image URL, and have the image posted here in less than a minute.

[Gerard F.]

Re: Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

Wayne,

I use Imageshack and have a free account with about 60 photos at their site. It is a little bit of a problem to upload pictures one at a time, and since I'm not paying for it, I think the storage of them may be a little unreliable in the long run. So I keep a copy of all uploaded pictures in a separate directory on my computer.

John is correct that you should resize your photos (if you are going to upload or post them) to max 640X480 pixels. I usually save the original at full size, then resize and rename with -sm at the end of the name prior to uploading.
On John's recommendation, I'm going to try that Village Photos.

Boy, scanning slides is a laborious job and I haven't found a scanner at any reasonable price that can just take a stack and automatically feed and scan.
(If anyone knows of one let me know.) The best I could do was one that does 16 slides or 30 negatives at a time. If you scan slides or negatives, scan at the highest resolution your scanner is capable of.

Hope this helps,

Jerry Fuccillo
#42179

[Brian Monticello]

Re: Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

You could always go the techie route and rent a domain name and some server space for about $10/month. You can get about 1GB of space and you can use it like a hard drive. With a simple FTP program you can "drag and drop" files into a self created directory structure. You can then access these pictures on the web.

If you're going to manage a few hundred photos, I recommend doing what JohnZ does. If you're going to try to sort and manage a several thousand pictures I highly recommend going with some dedicated server space.
You can then do stuff like this:

http://65corvette.nonethewiser.net/posts

(go ahead and sniff around in my structue)

Brian

[Brian Monticello]

Re: Posting Photos -- instructions & hosting sites

Places like wal-mart will do bulk slide scanning for you and give you a disc full of digital pictures. My in-laws just did this with a few shoe boxes full of slides. They were pleasently surprised at the low cost and the speed.

brian

[Loren L.]

Here it comes, folks. A DIY article on igloos.... *NM*