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    Best way to manage image files

    Where is the best place to save images so that exporting snapshots doesn't throw errors ? If all the images are just added to the sites folder it is very unorganised without subfoders to manage them. Especially as there are 3 images per product.
    Richard Gosler
    Phoenix Digital Media Ltd
    Dorset, UK

    #2
    Make a sub-folder of your Site folder (say Images) and keep them there. You can also make additional sub-folders of Images if you want, in order to separate product, section and thumbnail images.

    Snapshots will now work smoothly and will easily be transferrable to another system.
    Norman - www.drillpine.biz
    Edinburgh, U K / Bitez, Turkey

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      #3
      just make sure EVERY filename is unique regardless of which folder you put them in, actinic puts them all into a SINGLE folder on the web - use TH as a prefix for thumbnails, SM for Small, etc - you get the idea.

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        #4
        I would suggest a folder called "ProductPictures".

        In this folder have 3 subfolders called "Zoom", "Normal" and "Thumb". In each of these folders keep a copy of each product which is sized to the settings you use for "Zoom", "Normal" and "Thumb". Like previously mentioned add something to the filename to differentiate them. I would personally recommend adding a suffix not a prefix, in other words "levi-501-jeans_T", "levi-501-jeans_Z" and "levi-501-jeans_N". This way you you can access the images easier and can change the image you wish to locate easily by just changing the folder location.

        Run batches on your images which puts them into the correct folders for you.

        Failing that dump all the raw images into an "Images" folder within the site1 folder and contact Norman about using his dynamic image sizing tool.

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          #5
          Thanks everyone. That's the model i had used anyway. just wanted to be sure it was the best way.
          Richard Gosler
          Phoenix Digital Media Ltd
          Dorset, UK

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            #6
            Have seen the threads about Normans image resizer, and the demo looks very exciting.

            Is there any more news Norm before I embark on the product images for one of my sites?

            Simon
            Simon Williams
            Actinic Designer v.8.5.2.0.0.0.HMVA

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              #7
              I'm still working on two problematical areas.

              1) If you use huge images (say 2400 x 3200 pixels @ 500Kb) then the
              processing time can be 5 seconds per image. At the moment this processing
              needs to be done on every upload. I'm working on a way to only do this once when the image is first ever used.

              2) I've still not found an easy way to stop the original images from being
              uploaded. So if you used 1000 x 500Kb original images you'd need 500Mb
              spare space on the server!

              Neither stop the patch from working but cost time and resources.

              If you always used reasonable sized image to start with (say less than 600 x 400) then there probably wouldn't be any issues and the patch may be useful as-is.

              More later.
              Norman - www.drillpine.biz
              Edinburgh, U K / Bitez, Turkey

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                #8
                Originally posted by Simon Williams
                Have seen the threads about Normans image resizer, and the demo looks very exciting.
                Can you point me to the thread ?
                Richard Gosler
                Phoenix Digital Media Ltd
                Dorset, UK

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                  #9
                  http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=27896
                  Simon Williams
                  Actinic Designer v.8.5.2.0.0.0.HMVA

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                    #10
                    Great -- thanks Norm ... Although the server size of things don't really matter to me as I have unlimited storage and transfer, the processing time for 1000 images may cause problems. I wouldn't like to be an hour into it to have a ftp problem!
                    Simon Williams
                    Actinic Designer v.8.5.2.0.0.0.HMVA

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                      #11
                      If you always used reasonable sized image to start with (say less than 600 x 400) then there probably wouldn't be any issues and the patch may be useful as-is.
                      This is my plan and am building it into a new site as a live test now to see if there are any major problems. I dont see any at the moment and as norm says if the source image file sizes are kept low then it should work as is - I think that the benefits to builders outweighs the image upload problem.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by RuralWeb
                        This is my plan and am building it into a new site as a live test now to see if there are any major problems. I dont see any at the moment and as norm says if the source image file sizes are kept low then it should work as is - I think that the benefits to builders outweighs the image upload problem.
                        Couln't agree more Malcolm ...
                        Simon Williams
                        Actinic Designer v.8.5.2.0.0.0.HMVA

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                          #13
                          Test product loaded if anyone wants to look http://www.allfusedglass.co.uk/acatalog/Jewellery.html this is created from an image taken stright from the camera and placed in My Photos.

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                            #14
                            Looks great Malcolm -- how big was the original file?
                            Simon Williams
                            Actinic Designer v.8.5.2.0.0.0.HMVA

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                              #15
                              It's 338Kb - 984 x 1012 pixels.

                              Takes 1.07 seconds to process on my 1 year old Athlon 4400+ / 2Gb RAM system.

                              Normal product sized images take about 0.1 seconds each on that system.
                              Norman - www.drillpine.biz
                              Edinburgh, U K / Bitez, Turkey

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