Uploading photo's

[christopher]

What is the best way of moving photo’s from my camera onto my magento based website, that I am in the process of building?

I imagine it is quite simple but I am a complete novice. I am used to moving photo’s from my camera to my PC but do not understand how to move the photo from my PC to some photo software i.e. getpaint.net (to crop, re-size etc) and then from the photo software to my website.

Can anyone help?

Chris

[MMAwarriors]

I have not used the software, but was curious if there was an upload/browse computer option on the magento software ?

[christopher]

Yes there is a browse option which I can use but will only give me the option to browse my computer and not a photo software package.

Do I basically have to move photo's to my computer, then to the software package to crop, re-size, then back to my computer and then use the browse function to upload?

[MMAwarriors]

I would try that option, try saving the pictures to your computer after editing and then browse and upload.

[websitehandyman]

I don't use Magneto but I do a lot of uploading of product images so here's how I do it, I'm sure the is similer structure in Magneto but the reason I don't use it is because I find it slow and not intuative. If it's just a few images then find the place magneto stores the images and upload them via ftp after editing them. If it's a lot of products you are adding here's some of what I do to get 1000 products uploaded in under a day.

First I take the photos - in my canon remote software it allows me to take timed images, save them in a directory on my pc, auto name them image001, image002 etc and even rotate them and enhance if needed. So I set the thing to take an image say every ten secs and the place the product in the way at the right time.

I then run a watermark process to crop, enhance, watermark and save the images including thumbnail if I need them on my pc.I then upload all those via FTP to the image folder of my web site.

Now adding the products to the site;

I have kept all my products in the same order I took the images in.
I open a spreadsheet and fill in the correct information for an import file - title, description etc - where it gets a bit niffty is the images. I have all the images in a folder on the pc but I need the urls to those same images once on the web site to link to the product details page. How I do that is with an old dos commend at the folder - dir /B > product.txt (I think thats right) and a little free app doshere (although I know the is a way in vista to open a dos window in the current folder).

I run that commend and that produces a text file with a list of all the image in that folder. In another spreadsheet I copy that list to the 2nd colum. In the first colume I put the url to the images folder on the server http://www.mysite.com/images/

I then save the spreadsheet as a CSV file and open it with a text editor wordpad text file like this;

"http://www.mysite.com/images/","image001"
"http://www.mysite.com/images/","image002"
"http://www.mysite.com/images/","image003"

Using find and replace I remove the " and the , charactors to leave me a list of image urls I can paste in to my product image-url field in the import file - http://www.mysite.com/images/image001

I think magneto has an import facility, you just need to create the file in the correct format.

[christopher]

Thanks for that, could be really useful when I come to import lots of photo's. I think there is an import function so will look into it.

ta

[websitehandyman]

Originally Posted by christopher

Thanks for that, could be really useful when I come to import lots of photo's. I think there is an import function so will look into it.

ta

Christopher, if you get to a position where you have money to spare and want to make managing your site a lot easier take a look at a company called MagneticOne. The do desktop apllications to manage most the shop apps including magneto. i think they also do 30 day versions.