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I did put this question on the main forum but didn't quite get an answer. I'm new to LR3 and interested in hosting a gallerie created within. I do use Flikr a bit but always find it not that user friendly. Having read the gallerie section it more or less seems that you create a set but can't host my LR gallerie, is that correct? Where else can i host my LR gallerie.
 
i think you may need to buy some server space with a company like lonex, that who i use but then you are getting into the realms of hosting your own site.
not sure if people still give free space away?

Gary
 
Thanks Gary. I did wonder whether hosting my own site may enter the equation which in the future might be an option but at the moment the kind of stuff i get involved with doesn't really warrant it. I was hoping that that wasn't going to be the answer :(

I find that creating sets within Flickr and sending to people the images are very soft even when resized for web and sharpened accordingly they still seem to get resized??

Cheers

Kris
 
If you have a internet /broadband supplier you proberbly already have a limited amount of server space free that you can use to host a small gallery,usually about 30Mb.
 
I host a LR outputted gallery on my own webspace at http://photos.mikesflying.com, alas that's the easiest way.

OlyPaul's correct in that you might have webspace with your broadband provider, it's certtianly worth looking into.


As far as Flickr Images go, Flickr resizes/processes all of the images you upload, usually converting to their own 'optimal' jpeg settings. It is possible in some circumstanbces that your images can go soft if they're already being uploaded as jpeg or another compressed form. I get around this by uploading full-res uncompressed .tiff files. It takes longer because the files are bigger, but it means that the Flickr conversion has all the imformation possible inorder to convert down to their jpeg settings, and hence (in my experience at least) the results are better (or at least more consistantly better).
 
Web space is very cheap. Takes a few minutes to output a gallery from lr3 and you can host it on your own site - Lr3 can even upload the gallery directly.
 
For the relatively cheap price of hosting and domain registration It doesn't make sense not to. I registered a domain years ago, so that I could always have the same e-mail address regardless of which ISP I used (I don't like and MSN or G-mail one)
 
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