posted on August 24, 2009 01:09:13 PM new
I'm having a melt down here. I'm an occasional seller of mostly vintage and antique items and like to give detailed photo coverage of 2 to 4 views per item. I've always been able to stay within your 3MB or 5MB plan depending on sales volume at a given time. That was with an older camera.
Now I have a new camera and I think I understand from a prior post that the newer camera probably has more clarity in the images, which it does...but it's costing me way more to store only a few images. Your plan guide shows the average number of photos per plan is based on assumed 55kb per image. Mine are 2 to 3 times that size. I'd love for them to be 55kb. I currently have only 34 images and am near maxing out the 5MB already. Good grief...I'll go broke in a hurry at that rate.
When viewing a listing I've run the photos don't look any bigger than they ever did... maybe a little better, but at what it's costing me, not that much better. I don't know what to do. Can you offer any suggestions?
No problem at all. Use the XPress Publisher we have to upload your images instead, and opt to enable the resizing option in the process.
It's really just a windows XP tool that is already part of your computer and you just need to set it up to work with Vendio.
You could likely cut your file sizes way down just by enabling the resize option and making them "Large" - or even "Medium" when given those options during upload.
There are a million software programs that would allow you to do this offline as well before you upload them into your Vendio account. The one I like to use is called Picasa, a free tool from Google that has a bulk export/resize tool built right into it.
The Xpress Publisher page can be found here and even includes directions and images showing how to set it up and run it the first time.
posted on August 24, 2009 02:02:29 PM new
Thanks Chris. I've been using the software that came with the camera Kodak/Easy share and I've cropped them, etc. and uploaded them into My Documents. During that process it gives the options of size to save as and I've played with comparing their options: best for web, 25%, 50% and 75%, but no matter which one I choose, it all comes out as over 100kb and an occasional 70-80 if I'm lucky. That being said, I've chosen to use "best for web" thinking that it probably is trying to tell me something.
I'll give this a try. Fingers crossed that I don't mess it up. I am a nervous wreck trying anything new and The most tech challenged person you'll ever come across I'm sure.
posted on August 24, 2009 06:19:13 PM new
Well, I'm not having any luck. I got the installation of xpress publisher done, managed to use it successfuly to bring a photo over to Vendio from My Documents where it was stored. First I chose the medium size option ... it still came up in vendio as 152k, then I deleted it, went back and did it again as the smll size option...it still came up in my vendio photos as 152k. No change. I don't see how this will reduce my space per image or am I not doing something?? I followed all the directions.
