anyone else having trouble uploading photos?

[A miller]

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The website compressed my less than 1000KB files to very small res files.  

For example, I upload a 900KB file and the site posts it as a 99KB file.

Why the compression??

Edited April 20, 2018 by A miller

[Guest 10511]

?????????? dreadful      I would not know a solution either

[dau]

Perhaps the following link is useful:

 

Why does the forum shrink my photos and adds ugly artifacts?

[A miller]

Perhaps the following link is useful:

 

Why does the forum shrink my photos and adds ugly artifacts?

 

BINGO!  Thanks very much.  This caused me to go back and look at my Lightroom export settings and I noticed that I inadvertently had been asking for 1280 on the SHORT side instead of the long side, hence the compression by the site.  Fixed now and I appreciate your time.

[ianman]

Adam,

 

you may get better results by optimising your files before uploading. Not that I write "optimise", not "compress". JPGs contain a lot of information that is not critical and can be removed without loss of quality.

 

You have a number of options:

 

Online services  https://tinypng.com/  or  https://kraken.io/

 

Desktop applications:

http://www.jpegmini.com/ (paid desktop application).

or on MacOS https://imageoptim.com/mac (free desktop application)

 

 

[A miller]

Thanks for the tip!  I tested out jpegmini and it does seem to work!

 

Adam,

 

you may get better results by optimising your files before uploading. Not that I write "optimise", not "compress". JPGs contain a lot of information that is not critical and can be removed without loss of quality.

 

You have a number of options:

 

Online services  https://tinypng.com/  or  https://kraken.io/

 

Desktop applications:

http://www.jpegmini.com/ (paid desktop application).

or on MacOS https://imageoptim.com/mac (free desktop application)