3 Responses to “PhotoShelter Tutorial: Embeding an Image in WordPress”

1. Per, BKWine says:

   September 13, 2009 at 9:19 am

   1.
   Instead of linking the image to the image detail page you might want to link it to a gallery that contains the picture in question plus some others. Could make your visitor discover more images, and that’s what you want, isn’t it? (Example: top image here, that links to a gallery: http://wine-pictures.blogspot.com/2009/09/kir-yianni-estate-winery.html)

   2.
   Changing the size of the image is not always smart. Why? Well, you are only changing the display size but you are not changing the size of the image file. So if you are downsizing images and have many such downsized images in your blog it may become slow to load. The images look small but the image files are actually big. You sometimes see nightmare examples of this where a page has thumbnail size images but takes ages to load. Then you look at the image detail and see that they are, say, 500kB images that have size parameters that are much smaller.

   Since the reader of your blog will anyway download a larger picture, you might as well let it display at it’s full size…

   3. Hadn’t noticed that the image link was to the non-customized PS site. Thanks for pointing that out. I think Photoshelter should change that to the customized address by default.
2. Martin says:

   September 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm

   Good points. The image size issue is a downside of having the image come directly from PhotoShelter. An alternative would be to create your own web-optimized version, upload it and then simply point it to PhotoShelter. That would be more work, but keep the blog from bogging down if you were inserting lots of images in a post.
3. PhotoShelter Tutorial: Embedding a Flash Image in WordPress « Martin Beebee Photography says:

   September 28, 2009 at 8:28 pm

   [...] Insert the image as a normal picture, and link it to the image’s display page (which I wrote about in a previous post) [...]