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Photobucket users beware!

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Define999

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yeah, i'm confused. those emails are from 2009.

 

any designer should be optimising images for web display anyway. monitor resolution is only 72dpi, so anything above that is a waste

 

I could care less about dpi unless somthing is meant to be cross platform web/print.

 

Pixel width is all I care about when designing strictly for the web.

 

I didnt realize the thread was so old.... this just happened to me today so I assumed it was a new phenom.... hm

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techvoodoo

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sucks all your images got compressed if you didn't keep backups of them especially.

 

that said stop using crappy image hosting websites if your hosting demands are so great. purchase a website hosting account and domain name, and FTP your images onto your own server. It would cost you at most 20$ a month for a ton of web storage space, and you will have the added benefit of being able to host a website on that space and you will get an email address (xyz@yourname.com).

 

using photobucket makes no sense what-so-ever if your image hosting demands are so much that you are this upset.

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Define999

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sucks all your images got compressed if you didn't keep backups of them especially.

 

that said stop using crappy image hosting websites if your hosting demands are so great. purchase a website hosting account and domain name, and FTP your images onto your own server. It would cost you at most 20$ a month for a ton of web storage space, and you will have the added benefit of being able to host a website on that space and you will get an email address (xyz@yourname.com).

 

using photobucket makes no sense what-so-ever if your image hosting demands are so much that you are this upset.

 

I never had issues until today, and yes... you are right. I just need to get a traditional hosting account like godaddy or somthing... and I will. Sorry about the rant. I just hate when companies clearly mislead thier customers. period.... :insane:

 

And yes I need a beer.... bad... hm

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youfoundjake

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If you have photoshop you should be saving your images properly.

 

First you should be resizing them to a maximum of 800 pixels wide and then saving them under "Save for web and devices"

 

This eliminates color changes, compression, and size problems.

 

For my photographs, which I'm very picky about, I have to do this before I post them to Photobucket, Flickr, or my Model Mayhem account.

 

When I get my sales website up and running you can be sure all of my images will also be saved in this manner.

 

I feel like nobody is listening to me... :frustrated:

 

I am a designer, I know how to save images properly for the web. Photobucket doesn't care what file size the image is... Wether its within their stated specs or not! They are randomly going into both free and pro accounts and compressing your files into oblivion! Dr. Balls? A professional photog? Anybody? Please explain why this is completely jacked up!

 

They have gzip enabled to cut down on bandwidth?

 

Flickr may be an alternative..

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Dr. Balls

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But photobucket has always compressed images. I used to say this on these boards over and over, and people either didn't understand or didn't care.

 

And it's free. I've never looked into a pro account, but I can't complain since I've never paid a cent whenever I've used it to share images.

 

I agree. All these sites are going to resample and use compression - it saves on bandwidth. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's probably always been that way.

 

However, because of my job, I'm savvy to that sort of thing - so it's understandable if the average Joe maybe didn't know, or never really looked at the image quality after uploading. I store all my scans in Dropbox and then upload them to my own website when I need to use them online. That way the compression is set to what I feel is acceptable, not someone else.

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lizards2

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People complaining about their FREE service is kind of amusing.

I have had people try to return free items for a refund.

Fiicker! :mad:
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Designer Toast

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I just upload to my own site.. I will teach anyone how if they want to know.. but image quality does not change then..

 

I have to pay about $9 a month for hosting and $10 a year to renew the domain name..but I feel its worth it..

 

Once you have it..you just FTP the images up to your site.. and learn some basic HTML and yer set

 

Best thing to do - having your own server or hosted server is the way to go.

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