Advice needed regarding more photo storage!

[AB]

Loads of room on my server gents, as bob said is the best way for people to see the photos too.

[taslucas]

Loads of room on my server gents, as bob said is the best way for people to see the photos too.

But they have a size limit don't they? And appear smaller on the page

[Petit caillou]

Hi,

I use Imageshack, very easy to use.

Best regards
Pierre.

[NissanGQ4.2]

But they have a size limit don't they? And appear smaller on the page

Yes they have a 1.9MB size limit, and yes the photo's will be smaller ( click on them to enlarge ) than photobucket etc......., but how big do you need the photo's to be to view???

Most of my pics are resized to get them under 1.9mb and they resize down between roughly 200 - 500KB and a fine for viewing on a pc or phone.

The only drawback would be if you were saving the photo's and printing them out on A4 and really who here does that *L*

[NissanGQ4.2]

Fark Paul thats either a lot of photo's or you upload your photo's to photobucket at the original size that they are taken.

I don't use photobucket anymore, personally I think its a waste of time for me. If I was sharing photo's with multiple forums and friends then yes I would use photobucket because of simply linking and sharing the link on the various forums / friends.

I only upload photo's to this forum and the occasional facebook post so I it's pointless
( waste of time uploading ) for me to upload photo's to photobucket.

There is no need to upload photo's at their original size for the web its pointless and takes longer to upload than smaller file sizes. Just compare uploading 1 digital camera file at say 2-6mb depending on your camera settings to a resized photo at 200-500kb. a lot of difference in time uploading especially when doing a heap of photo's at once.

I use a program called fotosizer: www.fotosizer.com it's fress and relative simple to use.

You can do one photo at a time or batch ( multiply ) photo's

I save all my photo's from digital camera and phone to pc and only resize the photo's I want to upload.

Do you use photobucket as a backup as well hence uploading original file sizes ( which I assume you are doing )??? If so forget it, again there is no point in uploading photo's to various free websites just for a backup.

Back up your photo's to a removable hard drive and keep it at a friend's place or if at home in a fireproof safe. Backing up original size photo's to a removable drive again is much quicker than uploading it to a website.

Thats my 2cents worth on the subject

Out of curiosity, do you backup your important data ( word, exel....etc ) on a regular basis to anywhere other than the pc????

[taslucas]

Yes they have a 1.9MB size limit, and yes the photo's will be smaller ( click on them to enlarge ) than photobucket etc......., but how big do you need the photo's to be to view???

Most of my pics are resized to get them under 1.9mb and they resize down between roughly 200 - 500KB and a fine for viewing on a pc or phone.

The only drawback would be if you were saving the photo's and printing them out on A4 and really who here does that *L*

They are quite a lot smaller on my laptop..... and when i click to enlarge, they dont get that much bigger........ maybe im getting old eyes.....

[BigRAWesty]

Create a new account.. Or have a clean out..

[Hodge]

dropbox is good but only has a 2gb free storage limit too but I believe there are otherways ti get more free storage with dropbox, just cant remember the details right now

I signed up, through my S4. Then installed it to my PC and added it as a sync node, and it gave me 20GB, and then when I added it to my laptop I jumped to 50gb!
I'm pretty sure thats what happened. Looking at my account now I have 50GB and haven't paid a cent. What I love about it, is the speed of upload/download.

[PMC]

Hi,

I use Imageshack, very easy to use.

Best regards
Pierre.

G'day Pierre,

Thanks mate, i will look into that one as well.

Regards,

RLI

[PMC]

I signed up, through my S4. Then installed it to my PC and added it as a sync node, and it gave me 20GB, and then when I added it to my laptop I jumped to 50gb!
I'm pretty sure thats what happened. Looking at my account now I have 50GB and haven't paid a cent. What I love about it, is the speed of upload/download.

G'day Hodge,

Thanks mate, i will look into that one as well.

Regards,

RLI