SMUGMUG PHOTO UPLOADING - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Doncat · RV-Dreams Family Member

SMUGMUG PHOTO UPLOADING

Howard · Host

I use the Windows Internet Explorer Uploader on Smugmug. I always do bulk uploads and none of the other uploaders seemed quite as friendly.

The uploading does take a long time, but that is a function of a couple of things.

First is your internet speed. With our satellite internet, uploading speeds are pretty slow except for really early in the morning. That's when I often do my uploads of photos. If I wait until the afternoon or evening, my wait times double.

Second, is the size/quality of your photos. This is where you have to make a decision. Do you want to take and save all your photos in the best possible quality? If so, get ready for some really long upload times unless you have a super fast internet connection. If not, most digital cameras have an option to change the quality (and therefore size of the file).

Because we upload so many photos and use them on the internet so much, I have opted to take my photos in "Basic" quality rather than the two higher quality settings I have on my cameras. I may regret that down the road if someone wants to buy a photo and make a poster out of it or something. smile

But for now, I'm sacrificing a little quality (most people can't tell) in return for getting the photos uploaded faster.

Now I will tell you that there are days when I may have 100 photos to upload. I never try to do all of them at once because I always end up having some type of "timeout" error. More an issue of internet connection/upload speed. If I'm getting pretty good speed, I'll upload about 20 at a time. If I'm getting poor speed, I'll only upload about 12 at a time.

Smugmug processes the uploads in the background. But I always make sure I see they are actually uploaded and displayed in a gallery before I delete them off the memory card. smile

Now I know we have a couple of other forum members that use Smugmug as well. Maybe they will put in their two cents. Hope that helps. smile

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Doncat · RV-Dreams Family Member

I have been using the universal drag and drop, I drag about 6 pictures at a time. Maybe I will give the IE uploader a try, it may be a bit faster. I could change the size of my photos, however I need all the help (pixel wise) I can get in making my photos clearer. I am sad to say I'm not near as good taking pictures as you. You have some fantastic shots, especially the latest of the hummingbird, that was crystal clear! smile

traveljunkie · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sometimes I use drag and drop, sometimes IE uploader, but like Howard I don't do more than 20 at a time. When I've tried to do more it has timed out on me a few times and I wasn't sure where it left off in the upload process. Twenty seems to be about right, I'm using DSL to access so it only takes about a minute.

Beth

mikeway · RV-Dreams Family Member

On the MAC side, if you are using Aperture 1.5.+; there are several plugins that allow semi-automatic uploading to your SmugMug galleries direct from the program.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the new Photoshop also had that ability - cross platform.

Mike

-- Edited by mikeway at 00:02, 2007-04-16