Ok, so I signed up for pictage and I am not happy. I mean the services they offer our stellar, and the service....stellar, but is there anyway around FTP or DEC uploads taking a gajillion hours?????

I tried uploading 300 pics from an engagement session and it took all night!

What do you guys use? FTP, DEC, or just send in a DVD or something?

Let me know how to best leverage my time...thanks!

What DPI and JPG Quality are you saving your files as?

I use FileZilla and it works AWESOME. Better than some FTP Clients that I've paid for, and this one's free

It's best to save your JPEGS at quality 10 for upload. If your internet is still too slow for you then you can send in a DVD disc, but that won't necessarily be faster, it just won't bog down your internet connection.

What JT said!

Go into BRIDGE (by Adobe)
Surf to the folder of images you want to upload.
Select ALL the images in that directory
in CS2 or 3 versions of Bridge -- select TOOLS > PHOTOSHOP> IMAGE PROCESSOR

I usually save in same location -- which creates a sub folder labeled at "JPG" -- then rename that folder with the Pictage job number -- point DEC at the new folder you just renamed to the job#

JPG Quality = 10


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Exactly. What they said.

FYI, if anybody is uploading Images to Pictage at a JPG quality setting of greater than 10, you're wasting your time. Upon upload, all images are reprocessed to Q10 anyways.

the upload speed is not Pictage but your ISP's upload speed. We have some jobs that can take 2 days to upload on our cable connection at home and thats the upgraded fastest they offer one from Comcast.

I still have a day job so I take them to the office sometimes to upload on my work's T3 line.. takes about 2 hours so I know Pictage can take them as fast as I can upload them.

For Lightroom users, I've found that jpeg quality 90 is about right, and it's roughly half the file size of quality 100.

We tend to resize/constrain all of our jpg files to 2750 pixels in either height or width (using lightroom) and export at 100% quality. I read on one of Pictage's suggested resolution sheets that this will produce a perfect 12"x18" and 16"x20". So, that works for me. Just another way of doing this. I would think the 80% or the 2750 pixels will actually result in roughly the same size file.

Ok, I will try that, thanks for the feedback. Sorry about posting twice, could not figure out how to remove the second post.