hey everyone,

I have been recently working on integrating zenphoto within my scout group's website.
and i am mostly successful,
however I have one small problem
about the size of the uploaded images.

Before we had zenphoto uploaded,
I had a basic asp.net 2.0 built gallery,
which did two basic things

1. organized things in folders etc and display thumnails
2. upload images and resizing them to a lower resolution (around 500kb) (so that when I looked on the server the image was only 500kb, not the original size e.g. 4mb)

I realize that Zenphoto
caches all the images to the resolution you set in the options->images button.
where you could set the quality of the images.

however even i set the quality low,
it will still not lower the size of the images when I upload them.

Is there any way I could reduce the size of the uploaded images?

thanks

Zenphoto differs between two types of images:
a) The full images you upload. These are generally never touched and treated as the "raw material" for:
b) The resized images. These are the images that you see on the actual website (the big sized image, the thumbs etc). These are cached in the /cache folder.

This lets you change your image sizes or themes later without having to reupload images.

so if you cache all the images, the delete the raw material, would the images still be available online?

maybe an idea for another version : you should make an option so that the administration could limit the raw materials size, and if they are bigger, they would be resized to the maximum size.

1. No, as Zenphoto is filesystem based and uses the structure found in the root albums folders to build the gallery structure. It is always recommend to not upload huge fine data images anyway (especially as some servers can't handle these at all).

2. I don't think so, you can do that before uploading, since you have to match your server's abilities anyway.