Major problems with photos.

Post by **Costafortune** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:01 pm

This is absolutely impossible. Something is going wrong. I just cannot upload a normal size photo:

Width 120

Height 90

Resolution 72

2.1 mb.

Just a normal size photo, but it doesn't want to know. Even reduced to 12x9 'file is too big'.

Post by **woodypup59** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:32 pm

Images MUST Be smaller than 512kB

Post by **Costafortune** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:30 pm

woodypup59 wrote:Images MUST Be smaller than 512kB

I kinda know that. But others post massive photos here and I can't.

Post by **Simon776** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:27 am

What type of image is it - bitmap, JPEG or?

mk1 · Post by **mk1** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:38 am

email it to me & I'll post it.

Would like to get to the bottom of this.

M

Post by **GraemeC** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:06 am

Often the massive ones posted are via embedded links.
If you have a big picture uploaded to Imgur and use the [img] tags to show the picture in a post here it will load in at whatever size it is. They need to be resized in Imgur to something more sensible.

Post by **Costafortune** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:21 am

Simon776 wrote:What type of image is it - bitmap, JPEG or?

JPEG

Post by **Costafortune** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:28 am

Think I've sorted it.......

Basically I was resizing to just under 512 but the pics would automatically creep up to over that. Resizing them well under 512 (so 450 or so) has cured it.

Post by **woodypup59** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 12:49 pm

"Resizing" changes the pixel x pixel size of the image, but not necessarily the file size (kB).

Compressing is what you need to do to decrease the file size, but its not the same as "resizing".

mk1 · Post by **mk1** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:05 pm

I can't agree with the above comment. As far as I am aware it is impossible to reduce the pixel size of an image without reducing the file size.

You can reduce an images file size by compressing it & leaving the dimensions the same, but reduce the dimensions & the file size will always follow.

winabbey · Post by **winabbey** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:21 pm

For those wanting to do some basic image manipulation I can recommend the freeware software IrfanView. It's been my graphic tool of choice for well over a decade, and I was an IT professional before retiring.

It's effectively a simplified Photoshop. You can resize, compress, crop and a host of other things. I regularly resize images to 1024 x 768 pixels and make the file size 210 kb which is perfect for posting on a forum such as this.

https://www.irfanview.com/

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