Resizing images for your website

the last two links do not work for me, WinXP and Firefox.

Nice program but how is it better than other free programs like Faststone (which will do it quicker by the way) etc
 
tiler65 said:
the last two links do not work for me, WinXP and Firefox.

Nice program but how is it better than other free programs like Faststone (which will do it quicker by the way) etc
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oops fixed the links.. misspelled them.

I dint say it was better than anything - I just liked using it for my own stuff and thought it would be good to share it with the world ;)
 
If as he says, it doesn't degrade image quality, it's already better than faststone. :)
 
bass_junkie83 said:
If as he says, it doesn't degrade image quality, it's already better than faststone. :)
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i dont know about their stuff.. never used it.. but I am using a custom script that I have written and installed on the back end of my dedicated server (i have a dedicated linux server housed in the blue square data centre) - it uses the a similar technology to flickr to manipulate the images so they dont degrade in any way. Most website scripts will just re-sample the images using php and turn them slightly off colour which for years has really ****ed me off. I have been working on this script for my own website for about 6 months and have almost perfected the scripts ability to upload the script, save it then resize it without changing the colours and contrast of the actual image it self.

I am currently looking in to adding a facility to make the image black and white and some other cool stuff so that is why i put above keep an eye on the site.

Its a good tool... I use it as part of my own photography site admin section (which i also custom designed and wrote from scratch)
 
bass_junkie83 said:
If as he says, it doesn't degrade image quality, it's already better than faststone. :)
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You must be doing something wrong with faststone then, just done a test and both faststone and Barry's resizer both have exactly the same results only faststone is quicker.

As a footnote Barry, any chance of seeing some of your web designs as I am in the market for a new one, away from my template based one.
 
i have just had a quick look at faststone. I have to download their application. My app is web based so can be used from any PC connected to the web.

My app is a web based resizer - not an application that can be downloaded.

Maybe there was a misunderstanding.
 
They are Apps but I am trying to see the point of uploading to your server (took about 40 seconds) then I have to click to save as in a chosen destination, where as faststone etc will do all this in about 2 seconds (and you can batch too.)

I like it though Barry, you could sell a licence to peeps so they can use it on their own machine which I suppose would make it much quicker.
 
it is for people who don't have the facilities at hand to resize images. I have a few clients who are using my content management system that have large photographs on their computers which they cant resize for one reason or another. They use this then upload the photos to their sites.. as the meerkat says on the advert seempuls.

I wont be making a version for people to download. I code xHTML php/AJAX MySQL not C++ so really even if i wanted to i couldn't.
 
I'm going to throw my hat in, as a webdesigner/phtographer

There is Photoshop, which is excellent for resizing images. Photoshop also gives the option for correctly embedding (or not) the colour profile, and sorting the colourspace out. Get it wrong, or don't bother = Dull image with poor colour (esp. reds)

You need to understand also how differnent browsers do (or don't) respect the embedded profile

When resizing in Photoshop, you also have a range of resampling options, ensuring that jaggies and loss of resoloution are avoided. On that subject, it is also worth learning how different browsers do or don't apply interpolation to images resized by the browser
 
Richard King said:
I'm going to throw my hat in, as a webdesigner/phtographer

There is Photoshop, which is excellent for resizing images. Photoshop also gives the option for correctly embedding (or not) the colour profile, and sorting the colourspace out. Get it wrong, or don't bother = Dull image with poor colour (esp. reds)

You need to understand also how differnent browsers do (or don't) respect the embedded profile

When resizing in Photoshop, you also have a range of resampling options, ensuring that jaggies and loss of resoloution are avoided. On that subject, it is also worth learning how different browsers do or don't apply interpolation to images resized by the browser
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whats your point ?
 
barry100 said:
whats your point ?
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Most photographers use Photoshop, this is a photography forum. Why use an inferior product when you have the daddy sat on your PC or Mac?

My second point is that when taking an image for web, resizing it is one of a few things that need considering

I accept that some people dont have access to Photoshop, but I would hazard a guess and say that most DSLR owners have excellent software supplied with the camera
 
Richard King said:
Most photographers use Photoshop, this is a photography forum. Why use an inferior product when you have the daddy sat on your PC or Mac?

My second point is that when taking an image for web, resizing it is one of a few things that need considering

I accept that some people dont have access to Photoshop, but I would hazard a guess and say that most DSLR owners have excellent software supplied with the camera
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is it a photography forum? i didnt notice :naughty: ?

This section of the website is Computers, Websites and Other Technology

I am posting info about a website. Get off your high horse will you. Im trying to give some people something that may be of use to them, not a lesson in what is the best and most expensive photo processing application is on the market.
 
I know a number of photographers who upload images into a gallery using gallery software that resizes it for them (no choice, it generates all the URL's for them) they then copy over the images using FTP... Images that they resized themself in PS or Lightroom or Apeture etc.. Why? Because many of the server based image resizing packages trash colour profiles, and interpolate poorly

I'm not saying what you have developed is poor, I am saying that most photographers have access to excellent packages that they edit images thier photographs with in the first place
 
Hi Barry,

I appreciate new technology and regard it as essential to the evolution of convenience.

I can also appreciate your efforts and thank you for posting, at least I could test it at no cost or loss to me.
I do however see no benefit to me as it just takes too long to upload a 9mb JPG from a PENTAX K-7 (for example).
I really think most serious digital photographers are pretty serious about their computers and the software they use, most will likely be quite adept at resizing their photos.

I think in the face of critique, you might rather put forward a stronger and more convincing argument for a cloud based system rather than taking a defensive position.
 
i didnt ask for a critique. I simply posted my tool and said enjoy. If you dont enjoy it i dont really care. Im not being defensive and looking back and with high-incite i wish i had not posted the tool. infact i think ill edit my first post and remove the links. Some people spoil things for others for no reason and you both are those type of people.
 
Barry that's a shame. I was actually supporting your position and offering some encouragement.
Obviously posting on an internet forum is always an invitation for others to review and question it, especially when you are inviting people to take a look at and use something you have produced, not to mention give their opinions ;)
 
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