We’ve made a slight improvement to the quality of the photos as displayed on the website for all new photos added from this post forward.   As always, when downloading the full-sized photos, you’ll still get the exact same quality as the original photo that was uploaded, but now the smaller versions of these photos that we display on the website will be less pixelated than previously.

This also applies to the “Download Smaller” feature.  Now any photos downloaded at smaller than their original size will be sharper than in the past.

We’ve completely re-written the download script to improve its performance.  You should no longer have the timeout issues posted about previously, so you can go ahead and download up to 50 photos at a time.  The download should start quicker than previously.

Interestingly, your download will start sooner when downloading the full sized photos than when downloading smaller photos (since they don’t have to be re-sized first) but even with this initial delay, the total download time will usually be faster because of the smaller file size of the re-sized photos.

We will continue to test the new download utility and hopefully be able to raise the 50 photo maximum per download.

This issue should now be resolved.  See  the Improved Download Performance post for details.

Lately there has been some issues with zip downloads of large numbers of files.  We are working on the issue.  For now, if a zip download of multiple files doesn’t work, try selecting a smaller number of files at a time, say 1 or 2 rows at a time.