pixels/size of photo

Sometimes for large files i find that it takes forever to "save", often it's faster to go back, then add again and select that photo from already uploaded.

Since you haven't said what your difficulty is, it's impossible to say more.

The purpose of Geni is not to be a high definition online photo album. There are better sites for that.

What you want to do with Geni is to use pictures as documentary evidence to support profile information. For example, the scan of the page of a manuscript.

For this purpose, the vast majority of the time, a picture of size 250K would be more than sufficient.

The problem some Geni users are having is that today's cameras (even phone camera) produce by default pictures that are massively huge (some can go as high as 8M.

If you want to upload pictures so large, yes, Geni will recoil, and rightly so.

You need to process the pictures a bit with a photo processing software. There are many that are free and very easy to use for most people.

For example, say that you take a family picture at a picnic. This can become a wonderful document for the profiles of your family members. With Geni, you can upload that picture once, and attach it to the profile of everyone on the picture. Geni even allows you to use the "green square" to highlight the face of each person and it automatically become the main picture for that profile.

However, you don't need a 4M-big picture to do that. With a little bit of processing (e.g. reduce the picture to 800x500 pixels) and with proper compression, you can bring down the picture to 200K with very little loss of quality.

Can you tell us more about what you are trying to do and I will see if I can help you further.

morel

As a basic user you also have a total media limit of 1GB on Geni.

http://help.geni.com/entries/61378330-What-are-the-benefits-of-a-Ge...

morel, you say:
-The purpose of Geni is not to be a high definition online photo album.

Where is this statement mentioned? I have never heard of this before.

Actually it sounds a bit strange. Any historical document, etc. should be as close to the original as possible.

For example, i used to cut the faces of every person from the group photo, and upload it to the profile, i then have found that Geni (correctly) made it so that you can upload the original, and then chose which portion to display as the profile photo. This is the correct way of doing that.

Asking people to encode, reencode, rereencode the same picture causes it to start degrading. Today it may not matter, but i'm actually thinking about the future, i plan to become very well known in my life, and future historians will want to research me (:smile:), so they will come to my profile, and will attempt to make a holographic model based on my photos, and if the photos are of too poor quality, they may be unable to do that.

Don't forget that 15 years ago 5 minute songs were encoded in 1 megabyte, and people were trying to shrink them down further. Today nobody would actually listen to that crap. The same with photos. There may come time when the whole photo collection from 2010s that is on Geni is almost useless to anybody doing anything interesting with them.

"Upload and store your family photos, videos, records, and sources on Geni. We make it easy to organize them by person or event and to share them with your relatives."

This is the purpose of Geni, according to the introduction to prospective members.

Morel, you're right - this no longer applies but nobody seems to realise this.

Hey guys, chill out here. Photo size is just a matter of common sense. Your family picnic photos, there is no point at all to upload a 5000x8000 of 10 Meg in Geni, or probably anywhere either.

And think about the hundreds of thousands of users accessing Geni from a smart phone or tablet: downloading large pictures takes many minutes and can be expensive in data usage. You want to think of the future? Here it is: soon most users will use mobile devices. For crying out loud, be nice and make pictures mobile-friendly, say no more than 250K. Or 500K if you feel it makes a difference. In my experience, for most usage, there is little to gain above 250K,

Exception: Indeed, there are original documents, say an old manuscripts, where higher resolution is needed. Granted. Do it then in that case.

If you keep uploading big size pictures, mobile users will hate it and stay away from your pictures. Even me with a monster ultra high performance desktop, I hate it when someone posts large pictures. Darn, it's not nice to have zits, wrinkles and other imperfections on people's face to be glaring at me on my screen.

If you want to make holograms in the far future, here is what I suggest:

1) Store your ultra-high resolution 10-plus Meg pictures on Flick

2) Make a mobile-friendly version of it, say 250K and post it on Geni

3) Include in the description of your picture in Geni a link to your Flickr version

Follow these steps and everybody will be happy.

You can upload and post as many pictures, documents, videos anything in Geni (within your total storage limit). Just do it wisely and more people will be able to enjoy your contribution.

Suggesting what the purpose is of Geni, isn't written down somewhere, so it seems, according to your far more reasonable personal opinion in your latest post, morel :)

I certainly share your opinion, lol