A true and tried method for handling photographs.

If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears it,does it make a noise? This applies to those wondeful, pictures you have on your computer. Sharing them with others is fun and they may even like to view them. I have tried all methods and this procedure I offer here is by far the best. It is relatively cheap and non-intrusive for the recipient.

Method for Handling Photographs for distribution. The learning curve is minimal, and most of the procedure is intuitive and improves with practice.

Get a web site. Probably less than $10.00 per month.
HostSave is one:
http://www.hostsave.com/

Get Breezebrowser to make HTML of your photos: You have control completely as to size of thumbnails and the larger picture.
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/

Get WS FTP (PRO is probably the best), or any other FTP program to upload your photos to your web site.
http://www.download.com/3000-2160-10018456.html

Here is a a sample of my web site.
http://www.durgan.org/selected2Aug2004/HTML/
Is that not pleasant viewing from a purely technical point of view, a rhetorical question?

Using the method described above, you are free of the shills and their constant advertising and overfilled screen information. Your site will be clean and fast. The uploaded photos will be excellent for viewing but not for printing. If the recipient want prints you can send the originals at a size, any size up to a gig, that they can print using this free software via E mail. You can, of course, just send the photograph by regular E mail attachment.
http://s6.yousendit.com/

I upload photos within literally minutes of getting home from a shoot and notify all the recipients via E mail as to the URL of the site. The method is unobtrusive, since all the recipient gets is a simple E mail message and can chooose to go to the URL with one click, or it can be ignored.

Durgan1

Okay - I'm an IT professional - been a programmer/analyst for 14 years. This is not as easy as you make it sound. Worked with it all day and finally got so frustrated I cancelled it.

While it would be nice to do - to me - it's just not worth the hassle! You have to know quite a bit to make it work and unless you've got the time and the energy and the money - for me - it's best to just use the upload feature Dave's given us.

But - for those like you - I think it's GREAT! Wanna set one up for me? LOL

Thanks for getting me interested in starting to look though......

M.

BetsyBug:
I will be glad to set it up for you. For now just send me your pictures (any size) by using YOUSENDIT (http://www.yousendit.com/) and I will give you the URL to the pictures post haste or sooner.

I didn't mention that only one file can be sent at a time via YOUSENDIT, so for a number of pictures you must Zip them, sorry about the omission. Also, please specify the size of the thumbnail you want in pixels and the size of the enlarged image when one clicks on the thumbnail. I vary it. but 300 by 300 and 800 by 800 Max is typical , the aspect ration is considered so only one max dimension is used for determination in the final image pixel size.
Regards,
durganyoung@rogers.com
Durgan.


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