Q: Does iCloud Photo Sharing compress photos when viewing? File size Q.
I'm not sure it will work or not, but for my illustration website, I am thinking of using iCloud Photo Sharing as a gallery of my work, using the 'public' setting which gives you a link from which anyone with the link can view the shared album. Anyway, I am currently preparing the images. I want people to be able to see the detail in my drawings and know that some artist agents will probably be using big desktop monitors, so I want to size my drawings appropriately from iPhones to 27 inch iMacs. The FAQ says that images should be 2048 px along the long edge of the image. That's pretty clear. What I don't know is if I should worry about the file size by decreasing the quality when I am saving the file in Photoshop. I will be using jpegs. If I use higher quality images, will the shared iPhoto album load more slowly like what happens with websites or will what is seen be compressed thus load faster and if they wish to download, be downloading higher quality images? By higher quality images, I mean bigger file size. When saving jpegs in Photoshop there is a quality level scale from 1-12. If I chose level 7 one of my images are about 950mb. If all my images in the shared album are this size would it be slow as a turtle or can in crank them up to 3mb and have them load at the same speed. I hope you understand what I am asking. Thanks. Dan
Posted on Sep 13, 2015 2:34 AM