Even Sharper Images!
The DropShots software development engineers have outdone themselves again as it relates to making your images look as good as possible on DropShots. I won’t get too technical here – but will say that the DropShots upload software was modified to make your images even brighter, sharper, and more vivid than ever before. The new sharper images take a little more room to store on our servers, but we feel it’s worth it to make everyone’s images look as good as possible. Please take a look at the images below to see the difference (it’s subtle, but we feel significant); the image on top uses the original uploading software and the image below was uploaded with the new uploader.
Your images will be enhanced the same way whether you use the Dropbox or the web uploader.
The DropShots team is always looking for ways to make your images look as good as possible – and we won’t stop here.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am
we were all happy with the picture quality – what we want is better video quality. it’ll also take some more space in your servers, but it’s worth it!
June 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
it looks like my comment disappear so i am writing again..
i was just wondering why when i blog my pictures in Blogger, at Firefox the picture quality is not good, but in Internet Explorer it’s a lot better. is it just my browser & computer or does anybody else have similar problem? can you please check.. thanks!
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[From Susan -- Customer Support]
There shouldn’t be any different. Perhaps you need to update your Firefox browser?
June 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Wow – the difference is subtle but a definite improvement. You lot are great. Love the site. It really is the best. I tell everyone about it.
One big question though. Is there a way to route Dropshots photos into Facebook? I can route photos to my Facebook profile directly from Picasa. I can also route a slideshow (random) from my Flickr profile. I’d like to be able to put a graphically interesting view of dropshots (different display options available) on my profile and have it viewable by certain friends in my friend profile. I think this type of application would also bring business to Dropshots. Any thoughts?
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[From Susan - Customer Support]
Unfortunately, this functionality is not yet available. But it’s on our list for the future!
July 4th, 2008 at 9:25 am
maybe it’s just me, but I kind of like the softer image on top, it makes it look a bit more natural and photographic. Would it be possible to ‘turn off’ this image processing for those of us that do a bit of amateur photography?
July 11th, 2008 at 6:46 am
I agree with Daniel. Video quality needs to be addressed. Even though I’m a lifetime member, I’m willing to pay more to have better quality videos!!! Come on DropShots. I know you can do it!
July 14th, 2008 at 3:54 am
We for sure need better video quality
July 19th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I agree that better video quality would be nice, but isn’t Dropshots one of the best places for sharing videos? It was a big factor in my choosing it over other possibilities.
What I’m wishing for is better captioning capabilities. I’d like it to be more like a little word processor, or like the windows we type in on message boards. I write some long captions and it’s difficult to navigate through them to edit them. I’d also like to include clickable links in my captions and colors, smilies, and bold/italic text sometimes.
Oh! And I’m still waiting for the SEARCH function to return. On the old dropshots, it was sooooo awesome to be able to search by keyword based on what I’d written in my captions. I still caption with the search function in mind, hoping someday I’ll be able to do that again. It will help immensely with my scrapbooking.
Another difficulty I’ve had many times is when I’m browsing through a large number of photos in the calendar view–say, my 1000 June photos–sometimes it will come up with an error message after scrolling down a few screens. And I wish when I navigate to another spot and then click Back it would return to the same spot I had been viewing rather than returning to the top of the collection of photos.
Finally, I’m STILL having trouble getting QOOP to work for making back-up discs of my photos. When I begin the process, a graphic whirs around for a while, then the site freezes. Is it because it can’t handle the large number of photos I have (something around 50,000 I think, or more, based on the count which used to be a feature of dropshots, which I miss, by the way!) I don’t see a way to select a subset of my photos to backup. I guess I need to submit another tech support ticket about this, but I thought I’d mention it here too.
I love dropshots, but I’m not committed yet because of the issues I wrote above.