ScrapBook Suggestion

[fatema]

Title
ScrapBook Suggestion

Short, concise description of the idea
In ScrapBook it would be very useful to have a 'scale all pictures' to a certain dimension instead of having to do it one by one.

Full description of the ideaI often upload pictures directly from my camera and so I have to reduce the scale of the picture one by one. I think it'd be a

Comments

[snakeling]

Not a criticism, but this is not something I'd expect a website to handle. I personally do all my resizing on my computer using ImageMagick, as it allows me to resize lots of picture in one command line; I can't imagine that there aren't similar tools for Windows and/or Mac.

I wouldn't be opposed to it as long as it didn't increase the upload time or the load on the servers.

[charliemc]

Not a criticism, but this is not something I'd expect a website to handle.

Agreed.

I wouldn't be opposed to it as long as it didn't increase the upload time or the load on the servers.

Again, agreed -- but I can't see how it WOULDN'T impact those things.

[elfy]

ot, sorry:
you have the cutest username ever.

[snakeling]

Thanks :)

[xnera]

I don't see why a website couldn't handle it. Flickr automatically offers several sizes of images you upload, without any manual resizing on your part. For instance, my most popular photo is available in the following sizes:

Square (75 x 75)
Thumbnail (100 x 65)
Small (240 x 157)
Medium (500 x 326)
Original (1280 x 835)

[snakeling]

No, you mistake my meaning. It's not that a website can't handle it, as obviously some do. It's just that I don't think it's expected behaviour. I actually use Flickr (not very extensively, but still), and I had never seen those options, because for me, resizing pictures is something you do on your computer.

And I just realised that what you meant was actually available on Scrapbook. What we need, then, is to make the function available in a single click, because right now you have to know how the URL works:
Full size
1280x960
640x480
320x240

[fatema]

While I partially agree that resizing pictures is something you should do on your own computer, using a different software, I make the suggestion for ScrapBook because I take/upload a lot of photos. Most of the time, I don't really have the time to go ahead and resize all of the photos, even with software that allows me to resize many pictures in one command line (which, admittedly, I've never done and think it's cool that it exists out there). I know that PhotoBucket or Flickr does it and I haven't noticed a lot of difference between the upload times for PhotoBucket/Flickr/Scrapbook.

I really like that Scrapbook offers the option to keep the original size, however, but not all the time. Sometimes, I just want the pictures to be smaller so that they take up less space and I can store more photos in the long run.