One for the Techies (Advice please)

[harris78]

Hey Guys,

Can anyone give me some advice. My daughter's dance school have 900 high res photos on a memory stick which they are trying to get either onto Facebook or something like dropbox etc. Basically they want parents to be able to view the photos to then be able to purchase the photo's they like. The problem is Facebook disables the photos as there are too many/too high res or they just take too long to upload. Dropbox just seems to take an eternity to upload aswell

Other than handing round the Stick to each individual family to pick which photos they like (you just know a family will 'lose' it) does anyone know of any software etc or an idea of how to get the photo's online or on dropbox equivalent for parents to view?

 

[Connor]

Google Drive could be a shout mate. Provided everyone has a Google log-in. However I'm not even sure you need a log-in as long as you have the link to the folder.

Now I don't think you would be able to upload 900 in one go so it could take time, maybe a few minutes - an hour tops but you could upload them to account, bang them all in a folder and them email/share the folder to everyone who wants it.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2424368?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en

 

[harris78]

Google Drive could be a shout mate. Provided everyone has a Google log-in. However I'm not even sure you need a log-in as long as you have the link to the folder.

Now I don't think you would be able to upload 900 in one go so it could take time, maybe a few minutes - an hour tops but you could upload them to account, bang them all in a folder and them email/share the folder to everyone who wants it.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2424368?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en

Cheers mate its worth a shot!

 

[Kurt.]

If that doesn't work you need to bury the memory stick in a pile of dust off a saw for 48 hours

 

[atrottel]

You don't mention the age of the pupils or their clothing in the class/performance but I'm guessing that the school has considered the issues of safeguarding and permission for publication of photos online (especially with the use of automated facial recognition by social media platforms), even on a temporary basis.

There may also be other regulatory issues which impinge on the above as the publication is part of a commercial endeavour (selling photos to parents).

I'm not trying to get the "my God, what has Britain come to when I can't even take a photo of my child in the bath" crowd all riled up but just to raise the point that there might be issues regarding photos of children which may or may not have been considered. Sad as it is, there are people for whom 200 photos of 5-year-olds in leotards would be a treasure trove and all it needs is an open shared link to be scraped and they can be gone who knows where.

 

[Moomin]

Hey Guys,

Can anyone give me some advice. My daughter's dance school have 900 high res photos on a memory stick which they are trying to get either onto Facebook or something like dropbox etc. Basically they want parents to be able to view the photos to then be able to purchase the photo's they like. The problem is Facebook disables the photos as there are too many/too high res or they just take too long to upload. Dropbox just seems to take an eternity to upload aswell

Other than handing round the Stick to each individual family to pick which photos they like (you just know a family will 'lose' it) does anyone know of any software etc or an idea of how to get the photo's online or on dropbox equivalent for parents to view?

Put it in a bowl of rice.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Beam me up Scotty! ... oh you said techies hahahahahaahhaha sorry pal.

 

[Eggs]

..I can’t change a plug but I would recommend you read the instructions.

 

[chrismpw]

Upload low res files to Dropbox. Get the parents to select and list which ones they want, to buy, write the files to a cd.

Bingo.

 

[leslad]

Upload low res files to Dropbox. Get the parents to select and list which ones they want, to buy, write the files to a cd.

Bingo.

Yeah. If you can't upload to Google Drive, you could create compressed copies of the images that are of a smaller file size. Because the files are smaller, they should be much quicker to upload to Dropbox. There's numerous tools online to do the image compression (though these normally restrict the number of images you can upload)

http://compressjpeg.com/
http://compressimage.toolur.com/
https://compressor.io/
etc

But make sure to keep the original images on the memory stick, you can then still offer the original high res versions of the photos to the parents. If they want a photo, just copy the high res images to a CD to give to them.

 

[verreauxi]

900 photos!? Maybe just upload the best 100. Or is each photo of a different student?

 

[nosejam]

Use Ice cream image resizer to compress the sizes of all the photos (you can just drop a folder into it from what I remember of it , make sure you do it with a copy, I'm 90% sure it leaves the originals intact but just in case...)

Once they've been made nice and small the Dropbox upload will be a lot quicker. Just checked an example folder and it resized 294 photos from 1,218MB to 90MB

Edit: just seen @leslad's post suggesting a similar idea

 

[Deleted member 28206]

@Bilbo can help?

 

[ilikecheese]

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

 

[Bilbo]

@Bilbo can help?

Just create a Flickr account and and upload them. Leave it running overnight.

Then just give the link to perspective buyers. You can set the file size limit to low so they can't download printable sizes, or disable downloading altogether.