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Revision as of 21:57, 8 February 2017
The Nikonians Uploader for Mac computers is a Mac OS X application available for Nikonians on a Silver membership or higher, allowing you to easily upload images to the Nikonians galleries directly from your Mac. You can download the Nikonians Uploader in the Nikonians Rewards Program section.
Windows users can use the Upload functionality of Nikonians Annotate Expert software for similar features. It covers the same functionality as the Nikonians Uploader. Annotate Expert can be downloaded here: https://www.nikonians.org/annotate
If you are not on Silver membership, the Uploader for Mac is available through Apples iTunes App Store for $9.99 US Dollars
The Nikonians Uploader for Mac is a 64 bit application only available for Macintosh users using Mac OS X 10.7 (Mac OS X Lion) or higher using Intel CPU's.
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How to upload images
With the Nikonians Uploader, you can upload one or more images easily to the Nikonians galleries. Just (1) drag & drop the image(s) you want to upload to the open window of the application, (2) select where they should be uploaded and (3) hit the "Upload" button.
Downsizing images
Nikonians galleries refuse images or videos larger than 10MB in size. The maximal resolution of an image is 1800 pixels long side. To allow uploading images from modern cameras, Nikonians Uploader can downscale the image before it hits the galleries, thereby giving you more control of the resizing procedure (instead of letting the galleries do the resizing, which is not done with any extra sharpening mask).
In case the image exceeds 10MB, it will be marked with red sign and the upload button will be disabled. Following picture shows how it looks like when the file hits the 10MB limit:
Double-clicking on such an image opens the "Optimizer". This does the following:
- Downsizes image to 1800 pixels, if the image's resolution is higher than that
- Applies sharpening
- Applies JPEG compression (Quality slider) in case original image was in JPEG format
- Displays actual file size
It is possible to tweak sharpening and compression and see the results in real time, allowing you to judge if the image is potentially over sharpened or if there are compression artifacts visible.
This process is not changing the original file. Rather, the application uses a temporary directory for storing all changes. When you are satisfied with the changes, hit the “Accept” button and the thumbnail description changes accordingly.
Please note, this mark does not mean that only optimized images can be uploaded, rather any image without any mark may be uploaded as well. Images marked indicate that they might hit the resolution limit at Nikonians galleries and that they will be downsized in the galleries after the upload. Doing that, leads to longer upload time (you are uploading a larger image) and it does not offer any possibility to review how the image will look like when resized. We strongly suggest you resize your images prior to upload, for example in the Nikonians Uploader.
It is possible to return to the Optimizer and modify its previous settings. It will use any previously accepted values, but will reload the original image, so that there is no degradation of image quality.
If you are not satisfied with the new values, simply hit the "Cancel" button and the previous values will be reapplied.
Downsizing all images
It might be tedious to optimize all images individually. It is possible to perform batch optimization with Auto button. All selected images (or all images if none is selected) will be processed. It is possible to review and tweak automatically processed images afterwards. Just double click on individual image to open Optimizer dialog.
Uploading images
As soon as you hit the upload button your images will be uploaded to Nikonians. Please note that the images will be placed in the image upload queue in your gallery and a new dialog opens with the queue showing after the upload has been done.
You can now fill out additional information you want to attach to the images. If you are happy with how things are, just hit the "Process" button at the bottom of the dialog.
To avoid long processing times, queue will show at most 10 images. Additional images will be displayed only after processing actual set.
Should you want to open the upload queue in the galleries manually from the Uploader, simply click the button "Link to commit" and you will process the queue - if there are images still to be processed.
Creation of albums
You cannot create albums out of the uploader right now. If you want to create albums you need to do that from the regular gallery web page.
Will Nikonians Uploader support Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or older versions?
Nope, we are not supporting Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 or older versions.
See also
- Galleries Guide
- Download Nikonians Uploader for Silver, Gold and Platinum members
- Buy through Apples iTunes App Store
- Discuss Nikonians Uploader
- About Annotate!
- Nikonians Photo Glossary