Best Way to Merge photos in order into one file to share

[WhitewaterWoman]

Someone from my canoeing forum would like to read my trips reports from about 35 years ago. I have the notebooks and they are legible. I have taken photos, jpgs, of each page. But the pages are not numbered. I took them in order, so they are in order on icloud.

I was thinking I could put them in a folder and give my friend access to that folder. I can do that in box.com.

But how to put them all together?

There are 42 photos of the journal. They look like this:

 

[Judge]

Consider your intended viewer's downloading capability- first and foremost. Personally I wouldn't try to have someone download image files all together, just out of courtesy alone. If their download speed isn't particularly fast they may be a little unhappy with you. So.....

1) Find out what your intended guest's download speed is in megabits per second. Have them access "Speedtest by Ookla"- Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

I just did mine a minute ago and it's running a little "slow"....at around 620 mbps (Ethernet) and on the weekend. On the weekdays it's closer to maxing out around 666 mbps.) -Relatively fast.

2) Consider the actual file size in bytes of each image. Have you already compressed them at 72 DPI? You don't want- or need to transmit files so large they were intended for print. Equally so, you don't want to compress images so much that it renders them looking poor either. (Keeping in mind that I have no idea of your technical understanding of image file dynamics.)

In essence you don't want to consolidate 42 very large image files to be "batched" into a single folder intended to be downloaded all at once if a person has relatively slow Internet download capability. Not everyone has super high-speed Broadband Internet using Ethernet.

Besides, if you give them access to all 42 individual files, they can decide at their leisure what to download and when. Just number each image file sequentially, in no more than two digits: 01.jpg, 02.jpg , 03.jpg, all the way to 42.jpg. You could also include a .txt file that serves as a description of each numbered file based on your journal notes.

A polite and pragmatic way of skirting around any potential bandwidth concerns of sharing your files with anyone. Example: My cousin lives on the other side of town using the same ISP, yet my bandwidth is literally six times hers. Fiber optics and a more modern infrastructure on my end.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Good points, Judge. Thank you.

I should rename each jpg file per your suggestion, 01, 02, 03, etc
I'll upload them to box.com and he can download them as he chooses. The order is preserved. Or he can just open them online (you can do this now, right? I do it in icloud.) and read them and take notes on what he wants.

They need to be pretty good quality because he has to be able to discipher my chicken scratches.

 

[Judge]

They need to be pretty good quality because he has to be able to decipher my chicken scratches.

More the reasoning to allow him to download them individually, in retaining a relatively large file to maintain image quality.

 

[Outdated]

I should rename each jpg file per your suggestion, 01, 02, 03, etc
I'll upload them to box.com and he can download them as he chooses.

That seems like the best answer to me.

Sometimes being able to post large files is handy though, I have a free MediaFire account, they let me store up to 10 gig and I can post links to files for people.

www.mediafire.com

And I just realised that no one answered your original question. It sort of became moot but here's how it's done. Put all the files you want in to their own separate folder, in this case call it Trip Reports. Then do a right click on that folder and one of the options should be to compress or make a zip file of that folder.

I'm not sure of the wording that will be used, haven't looked at Windows in many years. You should end up with a single file called Trip Reports.zip.

 

[FilterFreq]

.zip, .rar, or .7z it.

Winzip, Winrar and 7zip are all programs that can easily do this; just right-click on your folder and choose "add to archive"

 

[tkcartoonist]

You could also merge the files into a PDF or PostScript file. I've done that a few times.