Webshots mini-album

[rejectomorph]

Since, for some reason I can't fathom, my recent photo CDs from Fuji have huge files, and my Tripod website has limited space, I have decided to put some of those recent pictures into an album at webshots. There are six pictures so far. Because the files are so large, they take forever to upload on my dialup connection. But they load on the page faster, because webshots shrinks the files automatically. (You can still see the full size files by clicking on the "View Full Size" link at the bottom of each page.) The pictures are still fairly crappy looking. I must get a better camera!

But there is a further advantage to having an album at webshots. Near the bottom of my community page, and each page of the album, you will see a little box that says "View witiwtuun's favorite users." (Don't ask about my user name, by the way. Dumb story.) Do look at that list! Most of these users have extensive collections of art. User rocsdad has over 300 albums in his main collection, and has several smaller collections as well. Bookmark my community page, and you can use the links from my favorite users list to reach the community pages of all these users. They are well worth checking out.

Comments

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

If you want me to, I'll try to grab the huge pictures from your online album. Then I'll shrink them down on my machine, and I can put them on a page on my website. I'll e-mail you the URL and you can download them all onto your harddrive whenever it's convenient. How does that sound?

[rejectomorph]

Thanks, but Webshots is already shrinking them for me. They have some sort of automatic shrinkage program, which cuts most huge files down to less than 100K. I think they do it so their pages will load faster, because they keep the large original file available too, through a special link. But the default view you see on each picture page is the smaller file. That's the main reason I decided to do a Webshots album. I just wish I could shrink those files before I upload them, because they are taking about 5 minutes each.