Feature Request? Store originals as compressed, allow for interim versions for 'zoomed' views
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DrLou
Joined: 2008-11-14
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Posted: Mon, 2009-08-24 16:27
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Guys - Again, each of these messages should begin with a Thank You for your hard work on G3 - it's lookin' great! A Feature Request: Our environment is one in which we'd like to offer our users a large number of photos for download at full resolution, but: 1) we'd prefer to store these max-resolution files in a compressed format (admin-selectable compression program/algorithm?). In the few cases in which a user might need to see a full-res image, he'd have to suffer the cost of an on-the-fly decompression (perhaps this capability should be an admin-selectable option?) 1a) For populating an album, perhaps GS might accept a compressed image, then create the thumbnails and any 'intermediate' image(2) on the fly at import time. 2) For zooming in on a photo, why not give us the option to generate an intermediate-resolution copy, of admin-selectable size and resolution? This is perhaps an inherit-able option, selectable on a given album and its children? 3) since downloads to cart would usually be of compressed photos anyway, this might jibe easily with the cart architecture. Overall, these two options would save us - and others - a lot of disk space. Regards to The Team, Lou PS - I have a feeling you're gonna to tell me these features are already in there... |
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JPGs are already compressed. Zipping, etc, does nothing but actually make the files a little larger by a few bytes. The only way to make JPGs (and most image formats that are viewable in browsers) smaller is to make them physically smaller or reduce the quality.
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