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Is Your Blog Slow? Reduce Your Photo Sizes

If your blog loads slow, people won't stay to read it...
no matter how well written it might be.

If I've never visited a blog before, nothing will make me leave faster than slow load times.

And nothing contributes to slow load times more than large photo files. I've been working with Julie Ferenzi on this for a while now, and this morning I did a little "training" video to illustrate how to us Picnik, a free online photo editing tool that may make your life easier. I'm a Photoshop freak, but not everyone is or will be.

Picnik makes doing most of the things you need very simple. You can rotate, crop, resize, fix exposure, colors, sharpen, remove red-eye, and apply a number of "creative" effects to your images. And you can do all of this without even signing up. Being able to see it exactly as it will appear online, because you ARE online, is one of the benefits. For the novice photo editor, this is simple and effective.

This video will show you the basics and talk a bit about sizing your photos for a post. But I recommend you go take a look at Picnik. I did this video this morning and Jonathon posted a little blurb about it today as well. You'll also notice that Julie's Living In Plainfield blog loads a lot faster now. :)

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Posted by Jeff Turner on 06/11/2007 07:27 PM

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25 Comments on Is Your Blog Slow? Reduce Your Photo Sizes

JUN

2007

Of all the editing, photo editing has been my greatest struggle... I'm on the picnik page now.. maybe it will be my solution... thanks Matt Locke

Matt... just play around and click on every button. You'll love it.

Very cool! I just checked this out from a rec. from Mr.Washburn. Super cool, free editing tool. I love photo editing, and this offers a great selection of tools.

Mariann... I've tried to get Julie to use it for weeks and weeks. I'm trying the shame route this time. :)

Heres some advice, stay away from large flash files too! Stick to small javascript files and pictures (meybe have one small flash file showing. but don't forget that text in flash files are not read by spiders from search engines and thus reduce your SEO).

Good luck.

www.sugarlandrelocation.com

Christopher... thanks for stopping by. When I say "reduce," I mean in file size, not in dimensions. That's exactly what this post is about. The fact that text in flash files is not read by the spiders won't reduce your SEO, but it certainly won't improve it.

Good tips.... I have noticed several ActiveRain blogs recently that load very slow...

Jeff, I will definately try it out. My Kodak v750 is taking larger photos than my older camera, and was wondering what to do.

Jeff thank you so much. I have Adobe Photo Delux (akward, slow) and have also been using Picasa but Picasa does NOT change the size of the file, unfortunately. And it takes too many steps to do in Adobe Photo Deluxe. Thanks for the tip. I will definitely check it out!!!

Mary

PS I'm sorry I didn't think to ask you or Rocky to show me a family pic when I saw you in Long Beach. Don't lemme forget in SF!!

I will have to check this out...thanks! I have been told that my photos are "too large" but could not figure out how to reduce them.

Thanks Jeff...I use Photobucket now and have been very happy with it...but I always love a new toy!

JUN

2007

I use HP Image Zone. All agents need to reduce the size and clean up the photos, just to load them into the mls.

Jeff -- You forgot the Microsoft Corrollary to your blog..

Which is.. If its too slow and the software is to difficult to use..

Throw away the computer, buy new hardware with a faster processor, get more memory, a new operating system and don't worry about the cost - its a tax write off.

When done, repeat the process with another computer.

:-)

Thanks Jeff, great info and I am going to the picnik site next. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom.

Martin.... hilarious. ;)

Ardell... yes, they should. But lately, especially on community blog posts, where the photos are not of listings, I've been seeing postage sized images that redraw line by line. Those images were obviously uploaded at full resolution and scaled down in the post window. That's the wrong way to do it.

Joan... I like photobucket... in fact, the first Picnik video I did was uploaded to Photobucket video about 5 weeks ago. I never posted about it then, and Julie never listened to me. Photobucket does not have the features that Picnik has, but it's a great service. http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t149/reshows/?action=view&current=picnik1.flv

Jeff, does my AR page load slow? It doesn't seem that it does to me, but, I'm not the one who matters. I have used quite a few pics lately off my new camera.

John, AR resizes the photos you upload to their system, so this would only impact outside blogs. Typepad allows for custom creation of thumbnails, so this should not be an issue with Typepad users, unless they are ignoring that option.

JUN

2007

thanks jeff

De nada.

Jeff,

How do you like Picknik Compared with Picasa? Is it easier to choose,modify and export than Picasa?

Really enjoyed this blog space Jeff and found this particular thread to be really informative. I was not aware of Picnik until now. Very cool.

JUN

2007

Herb... I've never used Picassa, so I can't comment. I've tried a bunch of other online photo editors, like Fauxto, but they weren't as intuitive and simple to use as picnik. Ease of use is a critical factor for me. I'm in my element on the computer and few things scare me, but I still want simple, fast and intuitive. Since Google is going to take over the world, I should probably go play with Picassa a bit.

Davison... it is. You'll like it.

NOV

2007

Hi Jeff,

First of all I want to tell you that I use RES on all of listings and the response is great...now I am opening my staging business and my new website is under construction. I would really like to know how to add my RES to my blog and to my new website--is there a tutorial or something I can look at to find out how to do that?

I did join widget but it was so confusing that I got lost....

Thank you for your help and your genius!

Paula

Paula... here is a tutorial for you.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/158810/Embedding-Anything-In-Your

Thank you for the helpful info.Have a great weekend.Thanks again

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