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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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Voting
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- Any logged-in PBase users can vote.
You can enable and disable voting to control whether or not people can vote on your gallery.
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- You can enable or disable voting on your galleries.
To do so, edit the galler.
Click the "advanced" link near the top of the page to edit the advanced gallery settings.
The first setting is "enable voting".
Check the box to have voting enabled. Uncheck to box to have voting disabled.
Click the "Update Advanced Settings" button.
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- When viewing a gallery, you have the option to "vote for this gallery". When a gallery receives at least one vote, it will appear in the Popular Galleries. Voting for an image, however, will not put the gallery in the Popular Galleries. When viewing a particular image, you have the option to "vote for this image". When an image receives a vote, just that image will appear in the Popular Photos section, rather than that entire gallery appearing in the popular galleries.
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- PBase members can vote for different images and galleries as many times as they'd like.
However, you can only vote for a specific gallery or image one time.
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