Photo suggestions?

[venta]

If I have any spare time this week <SFX: hysterical laughter>, I might get round to putting my photos from News Zealand, York and Orleans on-line. Only I've never done such a thing before, and have very little idea how one goes about it.

I have some webspace, which I think will be sufficient to put a few photos on, but I've no idea what software I want to go about using to make things nice and thumbnaily, and easily viewable.

Any suggestions?

Comments

Paintshop Pro ?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

That's the usual answer anyway. There's a free trial version, so you can "try it out" on your photos.

PSP & webspace

[uitlander]

Well, I've just set up my domain, and have 200 free MBs of webspace if you want to upload stuff there. Plus there's paint shop pro installed on my PC at work if you're interested.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I second PSP. You can now get version 7 for £37 from Amazon, and it's well worth it. You can have so much fun playing around with it if you're remotely interested in pretty pictures.

OK: stupid question

[venta.livejournal.com]

What sort of playing around might I want to do?

In this instance I'm only after cropping and thumbnailing of pics... and, other than insertion of heffalumps into pictures for Humourous Reasons, it hadn't really occurred to me that I might want to do anything else.

(This is a genuine request, not sarcasm :) I'm not very visually orientated, so hints are always welcome...)

Re: OK: stupid question

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Well, anything you can think of, really!

For an example, have a look at our old website at www.risen.demon.co.uk. It was my first attempt at a website, and I did all the graphics using PSP7 not long after I got it, as a novice to computer graphics. (with the exception of some 3d gardens which I did in Bryce)

Try not to judge it - as I say, it was my first site.

For more recent stuff, have a look at Daniel's Bronze site. Now again, some of the coding is a little dodgy, but all the basic graphics of the site (ie excluding some of the illustrations which were done in Bryce) are PSP7.

For simpler sites, the Lions part site and Passamezzo were both done in PSP7, and have photo galleries which are probably more the kind of thing you had in mind!

But I just love playing around with pretty things, so you may not actually want to do any of this kind of stuff! In which case a freebie graphics programme might do just as well, but I would still say that something like PSP will do a better job on your photos. It has a jpg optimiser and wizard, which is a big help in finding the right point at which your photos are compressed enough to load quickly, but not so compressed that they look crappy. As far as I know, most freebies don't offer you any options when you save images as jpgs, they just have a standard compression level which may not give you the result you want.

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

How about irfanview

It's jolly good and free!

Also some strange woman here gives step by step account on how to do it with irfanview: how to

The trouble with Paint Shop Pro...

[condign.livejournal.com]

...is that as an addiction, it leads to Adobe Photoshop, and then to Illustrator. :)

But I'll agree, it's probably the best sort of thing for what you want to do. If you need any practical help, you can stop by: I have scanner, pen tablet, and a load of other stuff I bought cheap off my old employer, and can help you out.