Uploading Photos, Optimal Size

Aaron Jors

I was just curious if there is an optimal photo size in pixels (eg. 800x600) to use when uploading images.

jfriend

Aaron Jors wrote:

I was just curious if there is an optimal photo size in pixels (eg. 800x600) to use when uploading images.

If you or any of your viewers ever want to order prints via Smugmug, then the optimal upload size is the full number of pixels from your camera after any necessary cropping without any resampling or downsizing. More original pixels = higher quality large prints. Smugmug will automatically make the smaller sizes used in the web viewing from your upload size. Storage is unlimited at Smugmug so there's no reason for you to try to conserve storage space.

If nobody will ever order prints, then you could get a little faster uploads by downsampling to the size of Smugmug's largest upcoming XL image size (which might be as large as 1600 pixels on the long dimension).