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How to save 90% of on-line photo storage space.


PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Storage space on your hard drive is very inexpensive, but storage space on the web is quite expensive. The size of a photo from a digital camera is usually between 1 MegaByte and 2 MegaBytes. Most web-pages have a limited amount of on-line disk space, between 10 MegaBytes and 100 Megabytes. This means that you are limited to between 100 and 1000 photos. At fast modem speeds, the download time is about minute, which is long time to wait. My solution is to reduce the resolution down to 10%, which is a reduction of 90% allowing you to store 10 times as many photos as before. People viewing your photos will find that the transfer rate is 10 times faster.

SOLUTION

Just follow the instructions in my HOW TO number 2003. To make thumbnails, set the Pixels to 200. To make photos that are 10% the resolution, set the Pixels to 1000. I keep the thumbnail prefix as "mini-" but I rename the 10% reduced photos to "tini-" and I leave the original photos with an unchanged name. I keep all 3 sizes of photos in the same directory on my hard drive, so I can access any of the three sizes in the future. Of course, I don't upload the originals to the web.


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\how2017 last updated on Sept 9, 2003