Uploading Large Images to the Internet

Most people Upload their pictures to Image Hosting Services(Flickr,Picasa, PhotoBucket,..) so that the pictures stay safe forever. What most people do is that they upload the images straight of from their digital cameras or just the source files which are mostly heavy in size considering the Mega Pixel count of this generation cameras. While most sites retain the original image, you end up spending a lot of time and internet bandwidth uploading these images. In this post I will tell you how to save that Bandwidth and Time.

Follow these simple steps to downsize an image:

1. Download the Freeware (FastStonePhoto Resizer) from here
2. Run the setup and install the software to your system
3. Follow this YouTube Video that I made to guide you to use this particular software



4. What you saw was I downsized 33 Images from a 3MP Camera to 640*480 resulting in saving like 43MB of space. Imagine how much you would save if you had resized photos from a 8MP camera!

So next time when you upload your photos you will be done in a few seconds instead of waiting and wasting bandwidth. You could always have the originals in a Archive drive or a portable HDD. There is not much of a loss in detail and you can also have these photos printed with this resolution. You could also follow the same procedure whilst uploading images to portable devices like cell phones, PMPs as it takes more processing power and RAM to process huge images. Moreover the images would load faster and won't take up much space.Also this free software provides loads of other features like watermarking, cropping and others. You can also save your settings and apply the same for different batches of conversion.
Happy Uploading!!