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- CommentAuthorAlM
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
This is bullshit, this site needs help. I just resized my photo 5 different times, it's 600x400, STILL wont upload. Yes it is about 600kb, and the form says 250 max, but you wont be able to see my pictures if I make them 250kb. There's all kinds of things fucked up about the uploading form.
This site needs UPDATING, agree?!? Donations or something? -
- CommentAuthorsfbee
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
I'll donate my time to this. Greg, if you're interested, I'll figure this out for you free of charge! -
- CommentAuthoriron jaiden
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
A high quality jpg at about 800x600 should be well under 250kb. Considering the amount of photos uploaded to this site daily without issue I'm gonna say there's something wrong with how you're saving your files.
Are you using Photoshop? If so set the quality to 10 when you "save as" and you should be golden. 12 is basically uncompressed file size but since a jpg is compressed anyways 12 is useless.
I'm glad there's a limit to file sizes. I don't wanna sit around forever while I'm browsing from an iPhone for some god awful 6mb bitmap image of someone's Kilo to load. -
- CommentAuthorsfbee
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
I totally missed the size portion of this complain, as I'm a bit tipsy and my attention span is shot.
You should definitely compress your photos with photoshop if you've got it. If you don't, find it on a torrent site or buy it :) -
- CommentAuthorAlM
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
This is coming from a 14megapixel camera, I've done it before but I don't know what's up this time. I'm using my computer's photoshop/editor called "microsoft "picture it" photo premium 9" There's nothing wrong with the file name, I figured that whole thing out long ago.
Ill try it off my brothers laptop, I think that's what I've used before. -
- CommentAuthoriron jaiden
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
I'm assuming you've got the camera settings at a nice high resolution and somewhere along the way the image just isn't being scaled down properly.
I know photoshop can be a pain to get a hold of so you could always just use The GIMP, which is basically a free photoshop clone.
That'll let you resize your photos and save em properly so they're not huge. -
- CommentAuthorproudxvxyouth
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2009
Haha I'm a personal fan of paint program. It gets the job done. -
- CommentAuthorgreg
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2009 edited
If you can't get a 600x400 photo below 250kb you aren't trying.
Yes the uploader needs work, but I can't afford to let each of the 12,000+ bikes to take up 2-3 mb of disk space (for the mathematically disinclined that equates to 25-40gb of disk space for photos) -
- CommentAuthorLyKqiD
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2009
Any windows or mac os allows you to change size and resolution in picture manager. Or look at what file extension the picture is. Sometimes cameras can be set to save in a photo raw format. -
- CommentAuthordanzap209
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2009
It does need upgrading... pics are to small -
- CommentAuthorsfbee
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2009
Posted By: danzap209It does need upgrading... pics are to small
Your resolution is to high. Just set it to 600x480, and you should be good to go! -
- CommentAuthorAlM
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2009 edited
Make note that you can use photobucket to compress/resize. Set the uploader to resize to 800x600, it'll do that and compress to 140kb, save the image back to your folder and upload. -
- CommentAuthorJoshua A.C. Newman
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2009
Hey, Greg, an alternate solution: integration with the Flickr API. That way, you can let them carry the load and run the backups. You can even leave the current system in place for those who don't want to use Flickr. -
- CommentAuthorveggie
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2009
That would be great, I already have a flickr account
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