Hank Taylor Posted September 12, 2010 Share #1 Posted September 12, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Have a problem uploading pictures. Now it's telling me my file is to large. so I tried another picture which I had used to upload and got the same reply. What's going on? Help Hank:mad: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pop Posted September 12, 2010 Share #2 Posted September 12, 2010 There are three sizes which the forum limits: the height and width of your picture as seen on the screen at original size. Neither must exceed 960 px. Then, there's the amount of storage your picture takes for storage on the disk of your computer. That depends a bit on the file format you are using and lies a tiny little bit above 300kB. In order to control the height and width as seen on screen, you "rescale" your picture. In order to shrink the storage space required, you "compress" when saving it to disk. The actual commands to accomplish this depend on the software you are using as each software calls those by different names. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted September 12, 2010 Share #3 Posted September 12, 2010 It is a flaw with the system. I manage a similar site for acacemic use and my program automatically shrinks the picture to an acceptable size. Until this site implements the same, follow pop's advice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 13, 2010 Share #4 Posted September 13, 2010 Up to a few days ago this site did compress images which did not conform to the forums limits. However, when it did so, the quality of the pictures became unacceptable for most purposes. Lots of poorly rendered pictures were posted and commented on. Hence, my advice given above stands. Scale down and compress before uploading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 13, 2010 Share #5 Posted September 13, 2010 Have a problem uploading pictures. Now it's telling me my file is to large. so I tried another picture which I had used to upload and got the same reply. What's going on? Help Hank:mad: Ummm...Maybe your files are too large? The max dimensions are listed in the upload window and depend on whether you are a sponsor or not.. Try and stay a little bit lower, the site does not read them the same as your computer does. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUF Admin Posted September 13, 2010 Share #6 Posted September 13, 2010 It's exactly like Philipp said: Until a few days ago the forum software shrinked images if they exceeded the given limits. This resulted... ... lower server performance for handling the big images without any benefit ... in very poor image results as the compression wasn't controlled by the photographer Thus I decided to switch off this process - if an image is too big, it won't be accepted by the forum software. Hopefully I was able to explain the reason for this. Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
}{B Posted September 14, 2010 Share #7 Posted September 14, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just to clarify, is this limit a max of 960x960 per side and a file size no larger than 240Kb ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUF Admin Posted September 14, 2010 Share #8 Posted September 14, 2010 Just to clarify, is this limit a max of 960x960 per side and a file size no larger than 240Kb ? Almost - file size limit is about 300 kB. Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted September 19, 2010 Share #9 Posted September 19, 2010 Almost - file size limit is about 300 kB. Andreas Please, I do not wish to annoy, but I manage a site with uploads and I have guidance regarding upload sizes on the upload page, and when a person tries to exceed the limit, the program tells the user that it will shrink the image. I use code from imagemagick. I am definitely not clever enough to do better than they do. With Respect, Pico Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 20, 2010 Share #10 Posted September 20, 2010 Please, I do not wish to annoy, but I manage a site with uploads and I have guidance regarding upload sizes on the upload page, and when a person tries to exceed the limit, the program tells the user that it will shrink the image. I use code from imagemagick. I am definitely not clever enough to do better than they do. As Andreas says above, the quality of the automatically resized photographs was very poor. I've no idea whether that's something that could have been tweaked, but uploading files of several mB prior to them being resized is going to increase the amount of bandwidth used (and presumably hosting costs if enough people do it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 20, 2010 Share #11 Posted September 20, 2010 I inadvertently tried to upload a photo that was too large yesterday. The forum software now tells you that it is too large. It's no trouble to make photos a suitable size, this seems like a perfectly reasonable way of doing things to me. Much better than having the software squash the files down to around 80kb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPS Posted September 26, 2010 Share #12 Posted September 26, 2010 It's no trouble to make photos a suitable size... Andy: is there a tutorial somewhere on the forum (I've searched w/o success) that explains how to shrink an image down to acceptable size and still retain acceptable resolution? I know how to resize images, but when I resize down to forum requirements my images always seem to lose a lot of sharpness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 26, 2010 Share #13 Posted September 26, 2010 There is, but I will do a video and post it here in a sticky at the top of the Photo Sub-Section. Be patient though - it may be a little while before I can finish it. 960 max pixels. 300kb max file size. Those are the two most important things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mby Posted October 24, 2010 Share #14 Posted October 24, 2010 May I kindly ask to increase the size limit from 960 to 1024, as this is something Aperture can shrink to automatically, which I find convenient. Thanks, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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