Thanks everyone. Yes I do need to be able to link to the full size photos. When I put them on a separate page on our website they were not the full size so guess placing them on the server is the best.

thanks

Hiya Prairie,

You can also use something like Visual Lightbox if you're wanting it to open the larger photos without having changed them. I am pretty sure it has a setup that will retain the original size of the photo (and you can always just replace the ones it creates with yours then too in the folder it makes if it recreates them with not so good of quality). This would set up a gallery of sorts with a block of clickable image thumbnails that open the original sized image in a nice lightbox. Just another option there for you

You can see a small example of what Jo Ann means here. This page is built with VSD and Visual Lightbox.

http://gunsmoke.me/h/coffee/lightbox.html

Okay been looking at my server / domain and still uncertain how or where to set up a folder. My website is in public_html

My server uses cPanel so there is a file manager and ftp -- been quite a while since I used file manager since I use VSD now.

I have a public_ftp folder and a public_html folder. Where do I make a folder to house photos.

These photos I do not want nor need to have visible on the website. Another company needs to access them in order to download them with a link / url that I will provide for each photo. They must be the same in file size, dimension and name as what I upload from my computer.

Sorry to be so dense here but don't really understand. I understand using FTP or uploading with the file manager but just don't understand where to upload them to?

Thanks so much for your patience!

go into your public_html folder and create your photo directory. Then from there upload your photos there that you plan to use. The link will then be:

www.yourdomainname.com/yourphotodirecto … rphotoname

This will need the full photo name including the extension of .jpg or .png or .gif or whatever extension it is. That will be the link you would use to get to the photos then.

Hope that helps

P.S. You can do all this right in your Cpanel's file manager setup or you can use any FTP program, either way will work

Thanks JoAnn! that was sure easy for as hard as I made it!

haha well sounds like you got it worked out, glad to help, good luck with it!