Photo storage for TS retrieval/sharing

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings TS Techno’s

I have recently reborrowed my Gt Aunts photo album, gifted in 1907 and containing her photos of about that period. The earliest that we can date is pre 1893 as James RUSSELL died that year. Of particular interest is eight photos sent out from Glasgow, Scotland to relatives in New Zealand.

The photos are from families whom we no longer have contact, so I would like to share them, in the hope that specialists of that period, may give us more insight into the photos (dating etc), and if lucky, we may be able to renew family links. There is always the chance that these photos have survived in NZ, but not within the immediate family they came from.

Nearly twenty years ago I was able to photocopy the album, but this time around I have been able to scan each page at both 100 (emailing) and 600 dpi for archival purposes. A few photos I tweezered out, to scan the whole photo and capture the studio details, but did not do them all, as the mountings have, in the past, been badly torn, by rough handling.

I have prepared an A4 sized display spread, of four pages of the photos, which I would like to share with TalkingScot. The jpeg file data reads 2208 x 3090, 1 to 1.2 MB each. (Scanned at 300 dpi.) As I’m not in the habit of storing my research off site, I now believe I’m required to register with sites like flickr or photobucket to upload the material into a storage system, that can then be accessed by a TS thread. Upon looking at the intro pages of those sites, it appears very complicated to my untrained eye, just for a few photos. At this time the only other photos that I could possibly store and share, are a few to do with milking parlour research.

Does any one have any practical advice, from their use of those, or other suitable sites.
Unfortunately I’m a bit of a slow learner, self taught, and tired of learning the hard way, what NOT to do. Advice would be appreciated.

Alan SHARP.

[paddyscar]

Hi Alan:

If you'd like to send them to me, I could load them up to a file which could then be viewed by members, from a link within this thread.

TalkingScot did have a gallery for sharing pictures and documents, but unfortunately, we have not been successful in restoring it following our previous provider closing down unexpectedly.

I will forward my e-mail address to you by PM and when I receive the photos will upload them and post the link.

Frances

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings Frances and Andrew.

Thanks for your PM's. Your offers of assistance is really appreciated. Hopefully we can agree on what should happen. I have a soft spot for this site, so would prefer to publish the photos here. Glasgow was, after all, their birth place. Just embarrassed that I have to beg, and borrow, due to limited funds to spend, on all the research projects I have on the go.

Alan SHARP.

[Currie]

Hello Alan,

Here’s a PhotoBucket guide that looks reasonable. Once you get over the hurdle of the first one or two the remainder will be as easy as falling off the proverbial. http://www.ehow.com/how_5618874_use-pho ... files.html

Note that just under the big green “Upload Images and Videos” button there’s a Tip “Hold down CTRL to select multiple files. (more options)” The “more options” link will show you the maximum size you want the image to display at. I have mine set to 1MB.

With a free account it looks like you can only upload jpg and gif images and the image dimensions can be unlimited but the file size must be under 1MB. If the image is over 1MB PhotoBucket will automatically reduce the file size (and dimensions) to well under that.

Alan

[Alan SHARP]

Question for KennethM

Please mate, what size are the "Mongomery Square" engraving, and the house photo, that you successfully included in your posts re the forum thread on Eaglesham. The engraving takes a while to show, on my computer, but not too bad a wait.

I've been offered assistance, with my photos, but see some sites have size limitations on up loaded photos, and I realize it's a trade off re quality of image, and down loading time, for the likes of us country yokels on dialup. The less KB the quicker they light up, and with most computer screens only working at low resolutions I presume that's OK. I'm not going to be asking for a picture restore. For that sort of thing arrangements can be made to direct transfer a file, one on one, with files that have been saved at 600 dpi, or much higher.

I know nothing about it, other than simple arithmetic does not apply. The sum is a compounding one. A scanning file at 300 dpi of an image, is not half the size of one taken at 600 dpi.

Regards,

Alan SHARP

[Currie]

Hello Alan,

In case Ken can’t get back to you.

The engraving originates here http://www.thetodds.org.uk/Engraving1.jpg
Its file size is 535KB and its dimensions are 1000 x 1285 pixels. It is a greyscale jpg, 8 bit – 256 shades of grey. Resolution is 600 dpi.

The cottage photograph originates here http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/ ... 06817f.jpg Its file size is 99.32KB and its dimensions are 640 x 480 pixels. It is a 24 bit – 16.7 million colour jpg. Its resolution is 72dpi. It was taken by a Pentax Optio A20 camera. This is a traditional email size photograph, its original dimensions would have been much greater.

If you scan a 5”’ x 5” photograph at 200dpi you’ll get an image 1000 x 1000 pixels which is a 1 megapixel image. If you scan the same image at 100dpi you get a 500 x 500 image which is only one quarter of a megapixel. The actual file size depends on how much information the image contains ie whether greyscale, colour, etc and whether and how much compression has been applied eg. jpg compression.

Hope that’s interesting,
Alan

[Alan SHARP]

From Alan to Alan.

My head is still spinning. Think I'll stick to pastural farming and simple maths. All very interesting just the same. 8.45 pm here and just turned on the computer to look up your references, to the actual photo post, when the email came in. Once studied I'll reply to you. Sorry about the delay, it has been a busy week with much travelling, but no cattle auction today. Spent last night trying to find out if the founding Heritage Tree Crops Trustee, who has been corresponding with me the last couple of weeks, and collecting grafting wood, had suddenly died leaving a young family, or it was a name sake from the same suburb, and both heavily involved in heritage gardens. I'm advised there were two gentlemen, and the one who was helping me, was at work in a heritage garden today. I'm also advised that sadly, it was Delboy (an active genealogist) who has died.

I eagerly await my contacts continued help, with the old tree crops heritage research.

Thanks, Alan SHARP.

Edit: Advised 30/8/2010 by my Heritage Tree Crops contact, that the genealogist using the user name of Delboy is still alive. Therefore within that organization, between the professional staff and the volunteer support crew, there were two people with the same given and surnames, (one of whom died suddenly) and that the one that died was known to some by the nick name Del-boy, (published in brackets alongside his name in the newspaper death notice,) at the same time as a family history researcher, is posting on genealogy forums with the user name of Delboy, and in the threads mentioning being a volunteer worker for the organization. How confusing is that ? Also how easily will it be for researchers, in a few years time, to get confused, because they would not contemplate the chance of a double up.