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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
pages.
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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Usergroups
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- Go to your usergroups management page.
Enter the name of the new usergroup.
Click the Add Group button.
Your unpublished usergroups are only accessible by you.
You can easily change whether a group is published or unpublished using the link at the top right of the list of members.
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- The blacklist usergroup can be used to block unwanted PBase users from commenting on your galleries or sending you messages.
You can add a member to your blacklist the same way you add them to your favorite list. On the users profile page, there is an option to add the user to a usergroup. From the drop-down menu, select **blacklist, and that user will be added to your blacklist usergroup.
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- The favorites usergroup consist of all of the members that you have selected as your favorites. The favorite artists page offers an easy way to see the most recent images from the members of your usergroups. When you view your own favorite artists page, you can access all of your usergroups, published or not. Others can visit your favorite artists page to see images from the members of usergroups that you have published. Members are listed according to when their most recent images were uploaded,... (more)
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- It is easy to add someone to your favorites usergroup. On the users profile page in the statistics box, there is an option to add that user to a user group. There is a dropdown menu. You can create a new user group, select an existing usergroup, select the **favorites, or **blacklist.
Select **favorites and click add to usergroup. This user is now a member of your favorites usergroup.
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