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How can image processing help reduce the size of my files?
Only original image file sizes are used to calculate your disk usage. We have a couple of options to let you easily reduce the amount of disk space you are using without uploading new, smaller images.
You can process images that have already been uploaded to PBase as well as select a default setting for processing new uploads to a PBase gallery. The tools to do this are found on your gallery edit
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Current Processing Options
No Change
With this option, no change is made to originals when uploaded. This is the default.
Delete Originals
With this option, original images are deleted, and large size images are used to calculate your disk usage. If no large size exists, there is no change.
Recompress Originals
This option maintains the original image dimensions, but decreases the file size. The images are resaved at quality 70 using ImageMagick.
The effectiveness of these tools will vary depending on your photos, but often can provide great space savings. If you've already used some other program to process your files, you may not see much change, but if you've uploaded photos straight from a digital camera, you will probably recover a lot of space.
For example, yesterday I uploaded 100 photos from a Canon 10D which used a total of 190MB. After recompression, those photos used only 39MB. If I had removed the originals entirely and left only the 'large' sizes, those 100photos would probably use only around 10MB. |
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Non-Public Galleries
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- A non-public gallery is one that is not listed in a user's gallery list.
Unlike a password protected gallery, users do not need a password to view this gallery, they just need to know the URL for the gallery. This is a useful tool if you do not want to have to set a password for a particular gallery and give it out to specific people; you can simply give them the URL of the gallery or image.
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- Anyone is knows the URL for a non public gallery can view the gallery. Viewers do not need a password to view a non-public gallery, but a non-public gallery can be password protected.
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- Yes, a non-public gallery can also be password protected. You can add a passkey to a non-public gallery the same way you add one to all other galleries.
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- Yes. A non-public image can be in a public gallery. When editing an image, you can decide whether an image is public by checking or unchecking the box next to "this image is publicly viewable". Even in a public gallery, if you uncheck this box, the image itself will be non-public and will only show up to the image owner.
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- No. Subgalleries of non-public galleries are not non-public unless you manually set them to be.
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- A password protected gallery will show up in your gallery list. Viewers will not be able to access the gallery unless they have the passkey.
A non-public gallery will not show up on your gallery list. Viewers will need to know the URL of a non-public gallery or image in order to view it.
A gallery can be made both non-public and password protected. Viewers will need to know both the URL of the gallery and the password for the gallery in order to view it.
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