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Title: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: melbee on September 19, 2009, 07:42:26 PM

Hi
the computor ma bob has me on the ropes .I am trying to upload a picture. The site is telling me the file is too big .But the picture is only 2.35 MB .I have tried forcing a screwdriver into the mainframe and wriggling it about ,it has helped very little  ;D .Any ideas anyone
Mel

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: Martinr on September 19, 2009, 08:05:16 PM

Yep, the file is too big!

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: ranunculus on September 19, 2009, 08:24:25 PM

Hi Mel,
350kb maximum and all will be fine ... we look forward to seeing your images.

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: Armin on September 19, 2009, 08:32:46 PM

Mel,
freeware IrfanView can simply change your picture to lower resolution (i.e. 640x480 or 800x600 dots)

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 19, 2009, 09:01:34 PM

Jings crivens and help ma bob! My screen would burst if a file that size opened on the Forum! :o

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: melbee on September 19, 2009, 09:21:22 PM

Got my kilo bites mixed up with the mega watts .I have compressed the picture into a small jam jar and it is now small enough to upload .Fingers crossed  ;)

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on September 19, 2009, 10:28:05 PM

Quote from: melbee on September 19, 2009, 07:42:26 PM

Hi
the computor ma bob has me on the ropes .I am trying to upload a picture. The site is telling me the file is too big .But the picture is only 2.35 MB .I have tried forcing a screwdriver into the mainframe and wriggling it about ,it has helped very little  ;D .Any ideas anyone

Here's an idea: be kind to your fellow man, and use nearly any image editing program to resize your photos, thereby making them less .... ahhhh... voluminous. Yes, voluminous, that's the word.

I use Gimp these days, but still have a fondness for the very old PaintShopPro v. 3 (1995), which had the great virtue of simplicity. I still have that ancient program running on a Win98 box but I'm too lazy to go downstairs where I keep the old machines.

What I do:

• first, crop the image to get rid of irrelevant "stuff" around the margins.
• second, resize the image so it will fit in a rectangle 640 pixels wide by 480 pixels high. Different programs use different words for this process, such as Gimp's "scale". You must make sure you don't use something that will force the cropped area to fill up a 640×480 area and thereby stretch it along one or the other axis.
• Finally, I save it as a jpeg with fairly high compression. Doing this lessens the quality, but also great reduces the actual size of the image files. They end up at about 40kB, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Title: Re: Zur computor ma bob
Post by: mark smyth on September 19, 2009, 11:51:55 PM

add the plant name to the jpeg before saving and do not resave the original