For Eric, a repost of some Flickr-uploading help ...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Is there a way to speed up uploads to Flikr? To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Eric, Darren discussed your link speed, but you may have little control over that if you're in hotels or bunking with someone. So it's not Flickr being slow but rather you have limited upload bandwidth available. So you have to make the best of what you've got and that means reducing the amount of data you are sending. I noticed that you are uploading your full-sized camera images: 2008x3008 pixels. Do you really need to do that? Would 684x1024 be good enough? This depends on who you are uploading these for. I also noticed that your images are noisy (based on your PESO image 20130916-IMGP6886 at 2008x3008). You may not care about a little noise but it makes your JPEGs larger. This is because the more high frequency content in an image the less the JPEG compression algorithms can squeeze it. Noise is useless high frequency content. You're using Lightroom 5 so you should apply some noise reduction to all your images. You can make it a default setting applied during import. After that, well if you can't make the uploads any faster, then at least make them more convenient -- make them run in the background. Since you're using Lightroom, you should configure the builtin Flickr Exporter (uploader). It will let you down-size the uploaded images, compress them more, convert them to sRGB, etc, all automatically during the upload. Then you can simply drag a large selection of images over to the Flickr Exporter and let it rip. Hope that helps, Eric. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Today will be the fifth day of my Peddars Way and Norfolk Coastal walk. > Getting lots of photos to share with family. A few to share here, but > probably not till I have time to be more selective. > > I upload photos to Flikr using their web uploader. It is excruciatingly slow > and my sets are large. They have a desktop uploader, but it hasn't been > updated in years. Lots of other user developed apps. > > Any experience with anything that would speed up my uploads would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > > - Mary Oliver > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
