Reviews - Member Photos

[DeniseM]

For TUG postings, I usually reduce pictures to around 700/800 wide max:

This one is 770 x 520 -

 

[TUGBrian]

I have determined that when I export out of Lightroom that I can set the max size of the image. What is the ideal size to have the photos in for display?

they vary from thumbnail size (which I dont find terribly useful either) to max resolution (that would cause you to scroll across your screen just to see a corner of the picture)

I think the overall average resolution of a computer monitor these days is above 1300x800 (and many are much larger)

in the example that denise provided shows 770x520 for comparison and anything close to that would be just fine.

 

[dioxide45]

This is a test. I exported out of Lightroom with a 750 pt width. If this looks okay, I will test upload some photos to the Resort page.

 

[TUGBrian]

I think thats a perfect size.

 

[dioxide45]

It looks like it worked. I just uploaded a bunch of photos to Marriott's Imperial Palms. It doesn't look like the upload recognized the rotation in one of the photos I uploaded. I should have rotated in Lightroom and then exported. I just rotated in Windows Explorer. It doesn't really edit the actual photo. That one photo of the kitchen that is sideways can be deleted.

It looks like the photos have to be approve before they are posted to the resort page?

 

[TUGBrian]

yep, but thats something easily done (and already completed)

you should see them all on the review page.

 

[dioxide45]

Thanks. There are a number of photos that are sideways because of the rotation issue. Can you delete those and I will fix and re-upload?

 

[TUGBrian]

sure can, think i got them all.

 

[dioxide45]

One other thing I noticed. When uploading a photo, you can select an Image Type (Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom etc). I don't see anywhere on the image view where this image type is shown. Am I missing it? I do see the captions that I inputted. But for photos where the Image Type was the same as what I would have put in the caption, I just left the caption blank thinking that this Image Type would be seen somewhere.

 

[TUGBrian]

have to look into it...probably just a glitch somewhere as those tags show up in the admin/approval section.

 

[dioxide45]

sure can, think i got them all.

Thanks. I uploaded new photos. There was one you missed of the in-room safe. I uploaded the corrected photos, just the one that is sideways needs deleted.

 

[TUGBrian]

got it deleted, as well as all the other photos approved!

someone was busy today! thats alot of photos! wow!

 

[dioxide45]

got it deleted, as well as all the other photos approved!

someone was busy today! thats alot of photos! wow!

I was busy. Even wrote a review.

After using the photo upload feature, here are some things I noticed;

1. I can only upload one photo at a time. This is okay for one or two, but is rather time consuming and tedious for multiple photos. What would be ideal would be to be able to click the upload photo button and then be able to select one more multiple photos. Then on the page where you enter information, be able to see the small thumbnail of each one and enter the appropriate data for each. Would really cut down on all the clicks.
2. I noticed for some of the resorts I uploaded images to, the current photos that were there were either old or were all just the resort promo photos. If it was easier to upload multiple photos, perhaps more people would be inclined to upload photos.
3. The actual photo viewer is small. The thumbnails below the larger photo seem to be large by comparison. Only three thumbnails are visible below the larger image, it is kind of hard to click on the ones to the right of the third thumbnail. Some people may not even know there are more photos. The photos are part of the Overview section. Really, it would be better to have a Resort Photos section and have those on their own page, make the photo larger and have the thumbnails smaller. So you can see that there are more photos to view. It would be good if the photos in the viewer were the same size as the photo is when you click on it from the viewer. Then there would be no need to have to click on a photo to make it larger. Also, when you click on the photo to enlarge, you have to use the browsers back button. When you do, it reverts to the first photo.

 

[dioxide45]

I think I also may have goofed and uploaded an incorrect photo to Royal Palms. The photo of a bedroom with two twin beds with the orange bed accents really belongs with Imperial Palms.

 

[TUGBrian]

not sure how hard or easy it would be to implement some sort of bulk upload feature, but will ask the question!

 

[TUGBrian]

deleted the twin bed photo for you.

as for other "outdated" photos, if you click the link on any review page titled "contact review manager" or "suggest edit" it will open a box for you to send a note directly to the resort review manager for that resort. suggest any changes or provide any new information needed for that resort and it will get updated asap!

 

[TUGBrian]

talked a bit about this tonight at length....we should be able to implement much of what you asked for!

1. the auto-resize thing apparently should be easier than originally thought
2. we plan to allow you to upload a photo(s) just after submitting a review, and the photos will be included with your review along with on the resort review page!
3. on top of this we plan on allowing members to go back to previous reviews and add photos from these vacations to be attached to their reviews as well!

hope when we get these rolled out it will provide most of what you were looking for to make photo uploading easier!

 

[dioxide45]

talked a bit about this tonight at length....we should be able to implement much of what you asked for!

1. the auto-resize thing apparently should be easier than originally thought
2. we plan to allow you to upload a photo(s) just after submitting a review, and the photos will be included with your review along with on the resort review page!
3. on top of this we plan on allowing members to go back to previous reviews and add photos from these vacations to be attached to their reviews as well!

hope when we get these rolled out it will provide most of what you were looking for to make photo uploading easier!

Brian, This is great to hear! The easier it is to upload photos, the more photos that people will be willing to submit. Interested to see the new features.

 

[taffy19]

Can we also upload more photos at the same time rather than each photo image seperately?

 

[TUGBrian]

that was a more complicated ask than the other options...so until we figured out how difficult it was to implement a multi-upload option, I didnt want to commit to it here.

 

[taffy19]

Thank you. I still had a few to upload but would have to look which images they are again. My pictures are on Smugmug only as it is so easy to find them there and even the hidden ones.

I will upload some Hyatt Ka'anapali Beach resort pictures too because the larger image is of the hotel next door and not of the timeshare resort. There were only three other pictures of outside, I noticed.

 

[TUGBrian]

shows that all 4 of the photos for that hyatt were uploaded by members...with the last 3 uploaded just a few months ago?

im sure plenty of members would love to see shots of the interior or other areas besides the outside of the resort and the pools! (although admittedly, that is quite a view)

 

[dioxide45]

According to this thread, there may be some missing floor plans that were in the review photos section of Marriott's Harbour Pointe. Is there perhaps some "missing photos" where the links still aren't fixed?

 

[TUGBrian]

According to this thread, there may be some missing floor plans that were in the review photos section of Marriott's Harbour Pointe. Is there perhaps some "missing photos" where the links still aren't fixed?

I do not see any photos for harbor pointe that are broken or missing?

there are one or two resorts that do have some broken photos, and we cant quite figure out what caused it, perhaps the photos were just corrupted...but this isnt one of them.

hilton kings' land for example is one that for some bizarre reason, a ton of the photos are just flat out broken. the photo is physically there on the server, but it appears the files are just corrupted.