"downsample"?

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"downsample"?

Maybe I'm not looking in the right spots, but the iWeb Help pages and user guide don't seem to be very detailed sometimes... The small question I can't seem to clarify is: Does the Photo Sharing (Photo Download Size) option in the Photos Inspector pane affect opening times for visitors looking through photos (for example in the 'detail view' of photos), or does that Photo Inspector setting only affect photo downloading time when a visitor clicks 'Downlaod'? There is a page in iWeb Help that makes it sound like both visitor photo browsing and visitor photo downloading are affected by that Photo Inspector setting, but the Photo Inspector pane itself makes it sound like only downloading speed is affected. The iWeb Help page says, "Resampling (or downsampling) is a method of reducing a photo’s file size. Downsampling helps your website publish faster and helps photos display and download faster for your visitors" and then goes on to direct you to the Photo Sharing (Photo Download Size) option in the Photos Inspector pane. But I can't find anything else in my research to confirm that that setting does affect photo browse/display time as well... and as I said, the setting pane itself makes it seem like only download time is affected. Can anyone shed some more detailed light by any chance?

Macbook Pro 15', Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Feb 4, 2010 4:04 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

Level 10

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Feb 4, 2010 4:30 PM in response to lovethatmac

No. The different sizes are only for those files you make available for downloading by visitors. The image files that are used in the photo and album pages and slideshows are 800 x 600 pixels and around 125 KB in size.

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Cyclosaurus

Level 6

12,915 points

Feb 4, 2010 6:04 PM in response to lovethatmac

There is a page in iWeb Help that makes it sound like both visitor photo browsing and visitor photo downloading are affected by that Photo Inspector setting,

that is correct, the image for downloading is the same as the one in detail view.

but the Photo Inspector pane itself makes it sound like only downloading speed is affected. The iWeb Help page says, "Resampling (or downsampling) is a method of reducing a photo’s file size. Downsampling helps your website publish faster and helps photos display and download faster for your visitors" and then goes on to direct you to the Photo Sharing (Photo Download Size) option in the Photos Inspector pane. But I can't find anything else in my research to confirm that that setting does affect photo browse/display time as well... and as I said, the setting pane itself makes it seem like only download time is affected. Can anyone shed some more detailed light by any chance?

why don't you set photo sharing size to different size?
small, medium and large... then publish to your local folder and have a look-n-see.

the published photos will be in photos_files/Media folder, you'll see along with the published photos there are two other images... one for the photo grid and one for the thumbnail strip above the detail view. (there will be one more called mips, when you use album page template.)

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