Uploading to Viewbook got a whole lot faster. Not only do we use bigger servers for more capacity, we completely refactored the resizing and storage software and the main principle behind the upload process. This sounds a bit technical, but if you’d like to know what exactly happens with your images, read on!
Our old upload system received your uploads, resized your images, and stored them in the cloud. Your upload was ready after this process finished. With the new system your upload is ready as soon as your image is uploaded to our servers. Resizing and storing happens in the background. This dramatically increases the experienced speed, and you can start organizing your images much earlier. Our challenge is to make sure the first images you see (thumbnails, previews) are ready (resized and stored) when you close the ‘upload’ window. Larger images will follow a couple of seconds later. In this case you will see a ’progress’ image in place.
Image quality
Image quality is important to us. We want to offer you the best resizing, compression and color. That’s why we hardly compress your images. We apply 95% quality JPG compression, so they will look sharp and bright. With all new software, there’s always a period of tuning. If you experience anything that could be improved, let us know. We hope you like the speed!
Hi Rien and Alrik,
when do you implement the new Publish services-feature that Lightroom 3.0 has? It would make uploading and keeping up with all the keywording etc. so much easier.
Thanks for all your hard work guys! :-)
Regards
John
Comment by John Verbruggen — July 8, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
Hi John, thanks, we’ll check that out. Do you already use the Viewbook LR export plugin? The latest version for LR3 is available here http://www.viewbook.com/tools/
Cheers,
Alrik
Comment by Alrik — July 8, 2010 @ 8:34 pm
Hi Alrik,
I miss some instructions how to install this plugin. Can you send that?
Ragards
John
Comment by John Verbruggen — July 13, 2010 @ 9:15 pm
Instructions for installing the Ligtroom Export plugin: http://support.viewbook.com/entries/53710-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-export-plugin
Comment by Rien — July 13, 2010 @ 9:21 pm