Getting images to clients

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject: Getting images to clients

As my hobby is photography and I occasionally shoot a model for their portfolio, I need to get images to them. My usual method is to burn a DVD and get it into the post.

Now I know that this isn't the quickest method, so I was thinking about using my site to transfer the images. Depending on what's shot, we could be talking about a few hundred megabytes here....

Any advice on the best method for this?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Ian,

Is the problem here the "how" to upload them or the best way to secure them on the site e.g. watermarks? How wise FTP is nice and easy as it will allow for simple drag and drop batch uploads. I'm not familiar with how to watermark images however!

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 382

www.dropbox.com? www.yousendit.com?

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:03 pm Post subject:

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Ian,

You could zip them up and password protect the zip. They'd then only have one file to download. Password protection is probably a little over the top really, a unique filename and directory indexing off in the folder would suffice.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject:

So if I was to create a password protected zip file and upload it into my Public FTP space, then send them a link, they could simply download it and unzip it with the relevant password?

That sounds good to me.

Ian

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Ian,

That's correct. You can upload it via FTP to anywhere on your site. You can then change the filename or delete the file to stop any further downloads.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:32 pm Post subject:

Would they need FTP software to download the file?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Not if you put it somewhere inside your public_html folder. If you do that you can simply supply them with a direct link that they can go to in their web browser e.g. http://yourdomain.com/files.zip

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:44 pm Post subject:

Thank you

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

No problem

Andrew

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