Prepping Images to Upload and Upload Woes

[jplomley]

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Dear Forum Members,

 

Any feedback most welcomed on a perplexing issue. I export my images from LR as per the required image dimensions and file size (2480 on longest side and 2 MB or less). Sometimes the images upload successfully, and other times an image just flat out refuses to upload, despite meeting all requirements. Extremely frustrating. Anyone else experience this and find the work-around? Note I am not new to this and used to post here extremely frequently but took a long hiatus. I'm eager to participate more frequently, but don't ever remember uploading being an issue five or so years ago.

Cheers for any advice that might be provided,

Jeff

 

[LocalHero1953]

You're doing exactly what I do, though I limit the long edge to 2000. Are uploading just one image at a time? Do you get an error message, or is it just that nothing happens?

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[jplomley]

Hi Paul, I get an error message that Upload has Failed! Only uploading one image at a time, I'm rather methodical in that manner 🙂

 

[Al Brown]

You need to upload smaller images. You wrote 2480, I think it must be max 2048 (or was it just a typo?). But do try to upload 1800 or 1500 on the wider side, many of us here do.

Edited November 16, 2022 by Al Brown

[jplomley]

Thanks Al. Would you have a recommendation?

 

[Al Brown]

My usual web usage, sharing and low res distribution of Leica M10-R jpegs from my DNGs is 1512x1000 (I always keep the shorter side of the image at 1000 pixels and vary the longer one according to different cameras). Plenty good for web, small enough to prevent enlarging too much.

[zeitz]

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Here is what Jaap wrote in a previous posting.

"In Photoshop, flatten your image, set Mode to RGB, resize to 2480 pixels [on the long side], sharpen if needed, edit - convert to profile sRGB and save as jpg and adjust compression ("quality" - mostly 10 or 11)."

I understand the maximum image size to be .49 mb.  I also believe the maximum message to be 1 mb for non-sponsoring members and 2 mb for sponsoring members.

I follow this to the letter and have never had an upload failure.

[LocalHero1953]

1 hour ago, Al Brown said:

You need to upload smaller images. You wrote 2480, I think it must be max 2048 (or was it just a typo?). But do try to upload 1800 or 1500 on the wider side, many of us here do.

The official forum guidance is 2480 with no limit on MB[EDIT].

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How to upload images: Prepare the image as follows: 1.   The image should be sRGB and 8-bits 2.   Reduce the size to 2480 pixels on the longest side. (smaller sizes can be set, but are not recommended) 3.   Sharpen properly for screen. 4.   Save as JPG to your desktop...

 

Edit. I have just found the FULL original guidance:

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/303026-leica-q2-images-post-them-here/?do=findComment&comment=3974391

...which gives a limit of 2Mb for non paying members and 5Mb for paying members.

Edited November 16, 2022 by LocalHero1953

[Studienkamera]

3 minutes ago, LocalHero1953 said:

The official forum guidance is 2480 with no limit on MB.

"Max file size: 2.44MB"

Might be different for a Premium Member.

[jplomley]

4 minutes ago, LocalHero1953 said:

The official forum guidance is 2480 with no limit on MB[EDIT].

 

Edit. I have just found the FULL original guidance:

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/303026-leica-q2-images-post-them-here/?do=findComment&comment=3974391

...which gives a limit of 2Mb for non paying members and 5Mb for paying members.

Exactly what I have been following.2 MB, 2480 on the long side. Its hit and miss, mostly miss!!!!

[LocalHero1953]

I'm puzzled, then!

[LocalHero1953]

4 minutes ago, jplomley said:

Exactly what I have been following.2 MB, 2480 on the long side. Its hit and miss, mostly miss!!!!

Then you've probably seen this thread? Some similar issues towards the end.

[jplomley]

Yup, saw that. I've tried smaller files (in pixels and MB) and it makes no difference. There is something fundamentally wrong with the Upload function of this website to be so erratic. Too bad, because really wanted to participate, but with it being this much of a headache, not really worth it. Thanks to all that tried to help out, much appreciated.

[250swb]

I always thought 2480 was a typo and it should be 2048. Many web sites can accommodate larger images nowadays like Flickr can, but the old limit on Flickr was 2048 on the longest edge because that was the norm.

Edited November 17, 2022 by 250swb

[andybarton]

Assume it’s 2048 pixels 

I’ll have a look at the advice at the weekend. 

[jaapv]

Andreas posted the proper dimensions on Jan. 21, 2020. It IS 2480 pixels...

 

 

[jaapv]

So just follow the instructions you see at the top of most the image threads precisely and it should work. If you don't know how to resize an image in postprocessing, there are plenty of image resizers available online, both for Windows and Mac

[jaapv]

Bear with me - I already started changing the image size in some of the instructions posts based on this complaint, now I have to change them all back...

[Lelmer]

On 11/16/2022 at 9:28 PM, jplomley said:

Dear Forum Members,

 

Any feedback most welcomed on a perplexing issue. I export my images from LR as per the required image dimensions and file size (2480 on longest side and 2 MB or less). Sometimes the images upload successfully, and other times an image just flat out refuses to upload, despite meeting all requirements. Extremely frustrating. Anyone else experience this and find the work-around? Note I am not new to this and used to post here extremely frequently but took a long hiatus. I'm eager to participate more frequently, but don't ever remember uploading being an issue five or so years ago.

Cheers for any advice that might be provided,

Jeff

 

Hi Jeff,

Since recently, I have got exactly the same problem. About 1 photo out of ten is impossible to upload. 

Have you solved the problem?

Thanks

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[RayD28]

I've had problems somewhat as described.  I'd load an image into a reply and then delete the image.  I'd then load a different image and click submit and the post would not upload.  It's like the system deleted the first file but then was not recognizing it deleted the first file.  At that point I close out of Safari, go back to the thread and click on reply.  I get a message that the system save a draft reply and asks if I want to use it.  I answer no and then things go smoothly.