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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: waterbuffalofarmer on October 12, 2015, 09:17:50 pm

Title: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on October 12, 2015, 09:17:50 pm

Can I ask why we can only upload a pic of a certain size to the forum? Is it because it could lag out the server which the website is run on and make everything really slow? Just wondered. I would like to upload pictures of my buffalo, but the forum says the file is too large, all the time. Are you able to tweak the picture sizes allowance a little? I find it quite annoying, especially when the only pics I have are bigish files

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: mowhaugh on October 12, 2015, 09:44:27 pm

You could upload the photo to Photobucket or similar, and then post the link here - the photo appears in your thread.  I think that's OK! I'd like to see your buffalo, and so would my younger son - we have spent most of today singing the Tractor Ted buffalo song!

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 12, 2015, 09:52:31 pm

I have trouble as well even when I upload to Photobucket.

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: Buttermilk on October 13, 2015, 08:02:28 am

I found a program called pix-resizer and have it on my desktop.  It can change the size of the files for posting.  You can do individual pictures of a whole album in one go.

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: Dan on October 13, 2015, 09:53:20 pm

Resize your images - it's very simple and there's no need for any photo to be shown on the forum to be more than 500KB, and probably 200KB.

There are loads of free applications for all operating systems that will help you do this, or use an online service like these:

http://www.picresize.com/ (http://www.picresize.com/)
http://resizeyourimage.com/EN/ (http://resizeyourimage.com/EN/)
http://resizeimage.net/ (http://resizeimage.net/)
http://imageresize.org/ (http://imageresize.org/)
http://webresizer.com/ (http://webresizer.com/)

The reason for the limit is that we never delete attachments to posts, so as time goes by they use more storage, and we pay more for the server hosting the more storage we use. A photo straight from your digital camera or phone could be 5+MB, and apart from the immense amount of time that would take for someone on a slow connection to download, it's just not necessary.

HTH.

Dan

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on October 14, 2015, 08:31:40 am

I understand now, thanks for that.

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: Womble on October 14, 2015, 11:02:47 am

Roughly 640 pixels x 480 pixels is a good size for linking to on forums.

Title: Re: problem with picture sizes!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 14, 2015, 11:57:10 pm

Thanks, Dan.