Limiting the size of my project 
Autor: John P.Hello. Since your program has saved a copy of the original pictures (in the original 100 % size!, i don't really know why it does this) in my project, this means that my project has very much "dead weight" (the project is 3,4 GB in my webhotel, but around 26 GB when making back-ups and so on, the difference coming from those pictures in full size never being used).
Do you have any suggestions for fast limiting this size? I got an idea of just having a compressionprogram (i use Faststone photo resizer) go through all the jpg-files in the project limiting the size. But when i go into the project i see the picturefiles are NOT saved as jpg, so i think this wouldn't work. In my galleries i usually use around 1000 x 750 as the size.
Going back, deleting all the galleries/pictures and putting in new and smaller ones, writing all the text for each picture once again, is not an option as this would take far too much time. So i wondered if you have any other suggestions?
Of course, one gallery with 50 pictures (and each picture around 10 mb, which some of my original photos are) is 500 MB in dead-weight only for that gallery. Plus the files my project is actually using, 1000x750 in size + the thumbnails.
Thanks in advance for suggestions!
John, unfortunately there is no way to undo the size of photos in your project, although WX5 will only generate the appropriate size for the web.
I have found that if I resize all images to a maximum of 1200px wide before using them (I use irfanview or any reasonable quality editor, but Fastone photo resizer sounds perfectly suitable), the project does not bloat, the site is generated more quickly and the project is also far more stable and "snappy".
For what it is worth, if you are considering replacing all images, would it be time better spent creating a new project with realistically sized photos? Copy and pasting the content of each cell between projects or from the online site can be quite fast (& I recently cheated by using the images generated by WX5 on a website, you could download by ftp or simply export the site to hard disk and copy them).
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Ok, thanks for your input. Incomedia should place something about this in the tips that pop up when people start using the program. That you (if you plan to have many photos on your page) need to convert them BEFORE putting them into your page, because X5 takes care of the original size as well, and this can make your project very timetaking to save, unstable and so on. With over 7000 naturephotos in my page i don't have the time to do this now, so my project will stay like this, though all new pictures i put in will be converted to smalles sizes :-)
John
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John - it's a hard ask really.
By storing the original image at the original quality it give the user the maximum options for display size (albeit at the cost of slow loading of the project and an excessive size of the iwprj2 file & iwzip).
I am sure many users would be up in arms if the width of any image was arbitrarily reduced to a maximum of 1200px inside the project, in spite of the time savings.