Saving Images For Web

1. Crop and make basic color adjustments, save as psd or tif to your working folder (NOT website folder).
2. Flatten and Sharpen image using unsharp mask
3. Image› Image Size. Resize for your website based on pixel dimension keeping in mind the width of the site (recommend that you choose a standard longest side.) For example vertical images set to a height of 900px allowing the width to vary.(or a horizontal image set to a width of 900px allowing the height to vary)

2. File < Export < Save for Web

3. Choose Jpg for continuous tone images and choose quality. Convert to Srgb should be checked/ add metadata.

Save into your website images folder. Name accordingly without capitals, spaces, glyphs, etc.

UPLOADING WEBSITE

Uploading websites via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Using FileZilla
We’ll be using Filezilla, a free application available for download online at:
here )

1. Open FileZilla
2. Choose File > Site Manager
3. Click New Site to create a new connection to your FTP directory.
4. Enter the following information, provided to you on a printed sheet.

Host: ftp.photoandimaging.net
Protocol: FTP - File Transfer Protocol
Encryption: Only use plain FTP (insecure)
Logon Type: Ask for Password
User: YOURNETID@photoandimaging.net (Replace YOURNETID with your info, i.e. abc789@photoandimaging.net.)
Password: Leave this field blank (You will be prompted to enter in the next step. Filezilla will not allow you to enter it here.)
Click Connect button
Enter password here.
You can choose to “Save the Password until FileZilla is closed,” but remember to quit FileZilla before leaving the workstation. The password will save during the active connection until FileZilla is closed in order to allow you to connect and upload.

When You’re Done
After you’ve uploaded your webpages, folders, CSS files, etc. and have tested your website:
DISCONNECT SERVER -- Click the Server with Red X button at top menu.
QUIT FILEZILLA -- When you are done or leaving the lab. Best practice: Quit FileZilla any time you are not actively uploading or downloading files to your directory. This also helps to prevent too many users connected to the server at once, which can result in slow connections or even inability to connect.

URL (AKA your website address)
photoandimaging.net/student-pages/fall-2020/YourNetID  

NOTE: Replace YourNetID with your actual NYU Net ID in order to see your site.
i.e. http://photoandimaging.net/student-pages/fall-2020/netid

Important Note: The hosting server is more than capable of handling a robust and dynamic website for each of you. However, it is not configured for uploading and storing of large files. (Read: Use Google Drive!)

Image files should be sized to less than 1MB. Images sized @ 1200 pixels wide will usually be more than adequate, but you can experiment various options in Photoshop both in Image Size and during Export or Save As.

Do not upload videos directly to your FTP directory. When working with videos, it is critical that the files be first uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo (or similar), then embedded-linked to your webpages using the HTML embed codes provided by those hosting sites.

Expiration Notice: FTP Accounts and web hosting directories are active during the current semester only. Your access to these files will expire on December 2020. Please remember to backup all files/folders before this date!

UPLOADING to Sketchfab - SEE HOW TO VIDEO

Create a free sketchfab login and password
Please note that this allows for one upload a month. There are a couple of ways to upload. You may follow directions to upload an .obj, .mtl, jpg. Or an .fbx. Regardless, the files size limit is 50mb.

TO UPLOAD FROM SKETCHFAB:
Before you export your model, it is best to make sure the file size will fit your Sketchfab membership. If you're using the free Basic membership, your file size limit is 50MB. If sketch fab does not allow you to upload. Follow directions below for decimating your mesh. If you decimate your mesh you may need to recreate your texture - This will not take long.

Once your model is ready to go, click File > Upload Data and you'll see the pop-up below.

Select Sketchfab from the left side of the menu and choose your model's Source Data from the drop-down: choose Model. You will need the API key which can be found in Sketchfab User Settings

Once your file is uploaded into Sketchfab you can easily embed your file within your projects page. Below your sketchfab video choose embed and copy code. Paste into your projects page in the appropriate place.