Pics only 150kb or less

[NiteTiger]

Yeah, I can load pictures of any dimension and they'll be resized, but you can't upload a 160kb pic and have it reduced to under 150kb. If it's over 150kb, it just doesn't allow the upload.

And it pisses me off too, can't get the detail pics up like I used to

 

[Hydro-Soil]

For the fourth time, I'm talking about the dimension of the image captured by the camera. The image captured by a 35 mm is what most people think of and is approx 1 3/8 inches wide (green). The image captured by a tiny 3MP Digicam is 4 feet wide or larger (red). There's no reason or excuse to upload a photo 4 feet wide.



If you can't understand the illustration, simply reduce your photos dimensions to 800x600 (yellow) and Save For Web. This will produce a picture of useable dimensions at a file size that won't unduly burden the servers.

What FB is trying to say is that you can print a 3MP image onto a 4' x 4' poster board and it will look perfect. Yes, there's THAT MUCH data captured by a 3MP camera (check out the poster size you can print professional 10MP images at.... wow!). If you 'blow it up' larger than that, the pixels get larger and start to become identifiable as the dots they are.

The confusion here is that 35mm is a completely different format that isn't digital. It's an analog and can be blown up using methods that aren't available with digital and aren't comparable in that respect.



For those of you that would like a powerful image viewer/resizer...... check out Irfanview. Free program that I've used for years that works great.

Don't forget to strip the exim data from your digital camera images, before uploading, by using Jstrip as well.


Stay safe everyone

 

[stink.whistler]

Erm... Freezerboy, probably the reason you are having to reexplain yourself so many times is that you aren't making any sense.

A 35mm negative has a great deal more information in it than a 3MP digitally captured image.

What in the world are you talking about when you are talking feet and inches? As GMT mentions, the cmos size is what is relevant, and a 35mm camera captures more information than the cmos of a 3mp camera. It takes a pretty expensive digital SLR to be roughly equivalent to a 35mm ('full frame format', like a Canon EOS-1D or a Nikon D3, for example)

Anyway, Irfanview is a nifty little freeware app that will allow a person to downsize images to a reasonable size prior to upload. Which will save ICMAG from having to receive a ton of unnecessary information from you, only to have to process it and downsize it to the format you should have uploaded in the first place.

 

[FreezerBoy]

What FB is trying to say is that you can print a 3MP image onto a 4' x 4' poster board and it will look perfect.

No, no, no. I'm saying just the opposite. Print a digicam picture at the size it was taken and it will look like crap. Digicam prints need to be reduced by 200%-400% in dimensions with no reduction of file size.

What in the world are you talking about when you are talking feet and inches? As GMT mentions, the cmos size is what is relevant, and a 35mm camera captures more information than the cmos of a 3mp camera. It takes a pretty expensive digital SLR to be roughly equivalent to a 35mm ('full frame format', like a Canon EOS-1D or a Nikon D3, for example)

Feet: a unit of measurement consisting of 12 inches and equal in length to 30.48 cm.

Inches: a unit of measurement 1/12th the the length of a foot.

What part of inches being smaller than feet escapes you?

 

[Hydro-Soil]

No, no, no. I'm saying just the opposite. Print a digicam picture at the size it was taken and it will look like crap. Digicam prints need to be reduced by 200%-400% in dimensions with no reduction of file size.

Ok, now I'm confused too. LOL

 

[FreezerBoy]

Ok, now I'm confused too. LOL

Digicam pics are 72 dpi. Fine for monitors but, not for print. Low quality prints start at 300 dpi.

Reduce your dimensions and file size both, the image remains at 72 dpi, far below the line of quality. Reduce dimensions 200% while maintaining file size raises dpi four fold or 288 dpi. Still below the line of low quality. A true quality reproduction takes a reduction of 400% or more. That's why digicam shots are so gigantic. It takes a beach towels worth of info to make a wallet size print.

 

[stink.whistler]

Feet: a unit of measurement consisting of 12 inches and equal in length to 30.48 cm.

Inches: a unit of measurement 1/12th the the length of a foot.

What part of inches being smaller than feet escapes you?

The relevance to the conversation. But since the OP's question has been answered, it really doesn't matter.

 

[FreezerBoy]

The relevance to the conversation. But since the OP's question has been answered, it really doesn't matter.

Relevance: Pertaining to the matter at hand.

How is satisfying the sole point of a conversation irrelevant?

 

[stink.whistler]

Relevance: Pertaining to the matter at hand.

How is satisfying the sole point of a conversation irrelevant?

Having a bad weekend? You usually are not such a condescending prick.

I'll think happy thoughts for you.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Having a great weekend. You said you didn't understand. How is answering your question condescending? How is satisfying the sole point of a conversation irrelevant? Can't help you if you keep dodging the questions.

 

[Sativa Soul]

no offence guys but you totally hijacked this thread with your dimensions discussion.
Still no answer to the main question.
Why don't our pictures resize? even when 160kb?

 

[stink.whistler]

Sativa Soul - a very fair point on the hijack.
Sorry for the hijack, OP & SS.

the site still doesn't resize my pics, even if they're 160kb. i have to resize them manually one by one which takes a lot of time.

Sativa Soul, while you are troubleshooting the problems with the auto resize you are experiencing with the site, you might try the freeware irfanview program, it has a batch conversion process you could use that makes resizing images (and other formatting options) of a large number of files pretty quick and easy.

 

[Sativa Soul]

thank you stink.whistler something that can make it easier, i've got a good program for resizing pics but for some dumb reason you can't do it in batch.