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Questions about photos on a blog
Posted by CreativeJunkie • 5/26/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: photo file sizes, photo hosting
When you resize a photo and post it to your blog, how large of a file is it? Not dimensions, but rather file size. Is it closer to 50kb or 150kb?
Also, I read recently on The Pioneer Woman that she recommends uploading your photos to a photo hosting site (such as Flickr or Photobucket, etc.) and linking to the photo rather than uploading them directly to your blog host (blogger, wordpress, etc.) because if you ever want to move your blog to a different host, you won't be able to take your photos with you.
Since my blog is using wordpress.org on its own server, I'm not to worried about moving to a new blog host, but the general idea of having my photos hosted elsewhere intrigued me. Does anyone else do this?
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I post photos to directly to blogger, but also maintain a flickr account. -
Closer to 150kb (that's the size I try to keep them under, with a few exceptions). But I use thumbnails so my posts don't kill the dial-uppers.
I understand the thing about uploading the photos to an image hosting site, but I'm only using 1.6% of my WordPress space, with hundreds of photos already
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Where can I find how much wordpress space I'm using for photos? Somewhere in my dashboard?
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Well, your WordPress is on its own server, so you probably have a lot more space, as I'm using WordPress.com. The free space is indicated in the Media Library section for me.
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Hmmmm - I have a media library section as well, but nowhere does it tell me how much free space I have. Maybe I'll try the wordpress.org forums and see what I can find there.
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I host the majority on flickr, have done for ages now. -
@CreativeJunkie
Don't get confuse with wordpress.com media library file space. These are custom space allocated by wordpress.com for standard users.
You are hosting your own and it is unlimited if your host provide so.. For more info look at your domain control panel-
Yep. The free space depends on your server, in this case.
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I should have known that! I swear, I should just go to bed and start the day over.
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I find it easier to put my photographs on Flickr, write the blog post in word, and then post directly from Flickr into my blog.
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1. image size - the smaller the better for page loading and dialup access. Most photos are created with many more dots per inch(DPI) than needed for a monitor --- large size is for color printing resolution. So resize the photo for snapshot size (300 to 600 max) with a DPI of at least 144 (keep your digital original on your pc or camera). See more at www.ibdhost.com/help/optimize/ :
Physical Size Width x Height File Size
Extremely Large 1200 x 900--- 80k to 100k
Very Large 800 x 600--- 60k to 80k
Large 640 x 480 ---50k to 60k
Medium to Large 400 x ???--- 25k to 50k
Small to Medium 300 x ??? ---10k to 25k
2. I agree you should use online service for Blogger images! Blogger saves all images in a non-listed album at Picasa. Only your blog can use it. And the name are horrible: quote from my post on this "the images are in Blogger's witness protection program. All names have been changed to something like this: 1.bp.blogspot.com/_wHNYjYDRAn0/SJ8VCbKmJLI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ PvQizsoaJBc/s200/imagehandlingpost.jpg.
Flickr is a great site since you can make the images sharable (like for your 'grab my button'). If you are self-hosted you may want to avoid people stealing your bandwidth by accessing your images (Flickr expects that sort of traffic). My WP blog does not allow direct linking. On the other hand you can't control the photo host (may go out of business, have to move files... ).
3. I'd prefer keeping blog images on the host for ease of moving (photo url is build into the blog folder hierarchy, no need to change any names in the blog post).
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