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Displays photo galleries from newest to oldest and randomly selects a thumbnail for each photo gallery (and it's title) by default. The thumbnail and title are lumped together in one area that has a link to the same page passing a parameter which causes the page to load the appropriate photo gallery. Photos are displayed in a common format (with a thumbnail) with options to download a medium or large version of the image. Photo galleries are typically uploaded via FTP in an appropriately named folder, with the large (original version) of the photos. A link is available to create the gallery. The most recent 3 photo galleries are shown by default and all others can be seen by using the "Older photo galleries" option.

Gallery creation

Small, Medium, and Large folders are created if they do not exist
Original photos are resized to 300px (pixels) wide (with height automatically adjusted to keep it in proportion), renamed to the original file name plus "-Small", and saved in the Small folder
Original photos are resized to 900px (pixels) wide (with height automatically adjusted to keep it in proportion), renamed to the original file name plus "-Medium", and saved in the Medium folder
Original photos are renamed to the original file name plus "-Large" and are moved to the Large folder
A link to create (or add to) a photo gallery is displayed any time new photos are found in a root level folder (i.e. not moved to the Large folder yet)
Small photos are typically between 15KB and 20KB, so to view a page of thumbnails with 100 photos would take 1 second (to transfer 1.95 Megabytes at 1.19MB/sec (10Mbps)); the web page could take longer to load though because it also depends on the speed of the machine and how efficient the web browser you're using is
Thumbnails are enlarged when you hover over them to indicate which one you're looking at
Photo dimensions and file size are displayed for users (for all images in the gallery) so they can determine which photo to download if they choose to download the image
The number of photos displayed side by side when viewing a gallery are automatically adjusted using CSS

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Learn about photos

Photos have dimensions and file sizes. You have the option to download photos for free from our photo gallery.

small, thumbnail sized images are displayed on the page so that it loads quickly
"download medium" is the link to use to download the medium sized photo
the numbers under "download medium" are the number of pixels (little dots) that an image is made of
"download large" works similarly
the first number is the width
the second number is the height (tall)
the third number is the size of the file for the image in KB or MB
KB = KiloBytes (thousands)
MB = MegaBytes (millions)
GB = GigaBytes (billions)
TB = TeraBytes (trillions)
We have over 60GB worth of photos in our photo gallery (that's a lot)
1000KB = 1MB (some systems round down like this example, others are 1024KB = 1MB; we'll use 1000 for explanation purposes)
Example: an image shown as (900x674 105KB) is 900 pixels wide by 674 pixels tall and is 105KB or .1MB; quite small; it would be good to use on a web page or Facebook post
Example: an image shown as (4032x3024 2MB) is 4032 pixels wide by 3024 pixels tall and is 2000KB or 2MB; fairly large; it would be a good image to keep
Facebook "dumbs down" their photos, so uploading a large photo doesn't do a lot of good
Downloading a larger image takes longer and takes more space on your device; but if you want to keep the image, we recommend downloading the large version
2 different photos at the same dimensions can be different because of how the images were created
All photos in our galleries are in JPG (compressed) format (some camera's create RAW images, which are usually twice as big in file size with the same dimensions as a JPG)
Cameras compress photos differently as well
Our photos have been typically shot with a point and shoot camera (older stuff), a smartphone, a DSLR, a drone, and even a Mirrorless camera; images in more recent galleries will have more pixels than older ones
Images 3000 pixels wide or more are suitable to print in 4x6 or even 5x7 (for those of you that still like to do that)
Images 4000 pixels wide or more are suitable to print in 8x10 or even 11x14
Images 6000 pixels wide are magazine (and possibly billboard) quality

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