Best way to add many photos to a TR.

[lovetravellingoz]

Hi,

I am just about to do my first post Trip Report that will have a lot of photos.

Currently most are too large and need to be reduced to a size for uploading.

Now yes I can do it one at a time, but that will take a fair time. Does anyone here know of an efficient way of converting them to a suitable size for forum upload?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pushka]

Hi,

I am just about to do my first post Trip Report that will have a lot of photos.

Currently most are too large and need to be reduced to a size for uploading.

Now yes I can do it one at a time, but that will take a fair time. Does anyone here know of an efficient way of converting them to a suitable size for forum upload?

Thanks in advance.

This is an issue with the latest release of the app. The old app was fine.

The only way I could post last month on a Europe trip was to email the photos to myself where you can easily select a smaller size to email. You can do 5 at a time like this. Then access your emails then save those reduced jpgs to your device. Then load those up. It is a total pain.

I have now reverted to the old app at home and it is so much better.

 

[RooFlyer]

Are you using the application or on the web?

if from the web, try pasting the photos into Word page (narrow margins), say 2 or 4 to a page. Then take an image of the page . Image is a good size in kb, and you can post 5 of these per post .

 

[JohnM]

This is an issue with the latest release of the app. The old app was fine.

The only way I could post last month on a Europe trip was to email the photos to myself where you can easily select a smaller size to email. You can do 5 at a time like this. Then access your emails then save those reduced jpgs to your device. Then load those up. It is a total pain.

I have now reverted to the old app at home and it is so much better.

I'm not having any trouble posting pics taken on my phone using the app on my phone. As I'm currently overseas, I wait until I have wifi. The biggest pain is my fat finger typing on my phone. I'm too old to have mastered, or to master, typing with two thumbs so it's a bit cludgy.

The only real problem I had on my Aus Shortcut trip was that I was mainly using the network at 3G level in the outback, so uploading raw images was very slow - and of course chewed through data. To speed it up, I emailed pics to myself at low res, saved them on my phone (that got a bit confusing because it duplicated the images in the gallery and occasionally I chose the high-res version instead of the new low-res version.)

When I have no images while travelling overseas, like now, I use my iPad to access the AFF website through Safari, not the app because it is much more familiar as at home I always use my desktop browser.

I could take pics with my camera (which I'm doing anyway) and dump them to my iPad and post from there, but I want to avoid the two-step process. I'm not aware of any method to combine groups of pics using the iPad, in the way Rooflyer describes, and which is the method I've previously used on my desktop for doing TRs after returning home.

RF carries a laptop when travelling, so he has access to Word and the all-important Snipping Tool for taking a new single .jpg of the clustered images.

if you haven't used Snipping Tool, it is a part of Windows, but poorly documented. it's a single .exe file, with no .dll's to mess with, IRC, so once you find the .exe file it's easy to put a shortcut on the desktop or quick-launch bar.