Welcome to the TinyUploads Blog

TinyUploads.com is a new tool you can use to share photos with your friends and family.  You can upload photos, choose the ones you want to share, and make an online gallery with a unique URL.  Alternatively, you can get embed codes for your blog too.  TinyUploads has got some pretty cool features that I wanted to highlight.

Client-side Image Resizing - The uploader on TinyUploads will actually resize your images before uploading to about 1024x1024 dimensions, which is pretty good for website viewing.  Often times, your digital camera will output huge files from 5MB to 10MB.  That can take a very long time to upload, and many photo-uploading sites would rather just restrict your max filesize to around 2MB.  Not so with TinyUploads -- you can just upload direct from your camera.

Multiple File Uploads - TinyUploads is programmed in a way that supports multiple file uploads.  So you don't have to upload one-by-one.  Just select a batch of photos.

Mini photo galleries - The way TinyUploads works is that you can select images from your uploads to share.  That makes it easy to share 5-10 photos very easily, and more if you like.  I found that a lot of photo sharing sites don't make it easy to share "just a few" pictures.  You either have to generate a full-blown web album, or just share one image at a time.  TinyUploads is a simpler way to share.


Preserved EXIF data- EXIF data is metadata contained in your JPEGs like camera model, focal length, exposure, aperture, etc.,  This information will be preserved in your uploads, which is a plus for photographers especially who want their copyright information attached.  If someone likes your picture, they'll usually go to the EXIF data to find who the photographer was.  You can edit EXIF data in a variety of programs, with the most popular being Adobe Lightroom or Apple's Aperture.

Reorder Images - Being able to reorder images in a gallery is a necessity of photojournalistic style presentation.  By default, your images are sorted in the order that you took them.  But it helps to be able to reorder them, since you'll often want a strong opening picture and a "last impression" closing photo.

Image Preloading - TinyUploads supports preloading, so the viewing experience is smooth and fast.  When you embed in your blog, you can also use the javascript libraries that TinyUploads provides to support preloading on your site too.

Three different thumbnail sizes - You get thumbnail sizes of 160x160, 240x240, and 480x480.  You can also present the images at 1024x1024.  All of these options will help you present your photos in a beautiful way on the web.

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Here are a few pics I put up with TinyUploads.  It took me about just a few seconds.

Parachuters in California

Inside the Statue of Liberty