Adrian Button
Member
I have tried a few times to upload and share an image or two, but I am always met with ooops image is too large, what is the largest size which can be uploaded?
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Pete Askew
Admin
I export from Lightroom as a JPEG (85 %) in sRGB with the longest side at 1000 pixels (2000 is Okay too I believe) at 150 pixels/inch.
Adrian Button
Member
Thanks, I will experiment to see what works, but your reply at least gives me a base line to work from.
Pete Askew
Admin
Ralph Turner
Well-Known Member
I don’t know if this has any relevance and I’m certainly no expert, but the few uploads I’ve done so far only seem to have worked when I’ve kept the file size 1MB or smaller.
Chris Bennett
Well-Known Member
You can also embed a bigger image from a hosting site like Flickr.
Pete Askew
Admin
That is probably right as 1000 pixels using the settings above gives 300-odd MB files and 2000 pixels gives about 800 MB files.
Pete Askew
Admin
Yes, good point, Chris.
Chris Bennett
Well-Known Member
If anyone needs to know how to do this, then I produced a video tutorial for another forum site which will be useful to users of Flickr. Hopefully Pete and Hamish won't mind me posting it here. (They're both members of that forum too!)
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Pete, did I meet you via that forum?
Pete Askew
Admin
No, AoS, but it was via HiFi.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I look back on AoS with nothing but disdain
Pete Askew
Admin
Yes, it is an odd (maybe typical) place. TAS is so much more pleasant and informative: thanks @Chris Bennett.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I look back on AoS with nothing but
Yeah for sure… though my lo-if exploits don’t seem to interest people… which is probably understandable
Adrian Button
Member
Isn't 1MB really small for an image thought - Doesn't that reduce the quality, if its that small?
Stevenson Gawen
Well-Known Member
I don't have much experience with forums, but on discuss.pixls.us where I'm a member, while there is no hard limit, they do request everyone to keep things under 1MB -ish where possible. I think the thing is that there's a cost for storage in the servers, and most of the time images don't really need to be zoomed, so an image 2000 pixels or so wide, with a bit of jpg compression will work fine.
This is just my perspective - as a newbie!
Ralph Turner
Well-Known Member
@Adrian Button I think @Stevenson Gawen has probably hit the nail on the head with the file size limit for file storage. Any pics I've uploaded so far have been 1200px with low-ish compression but the slightly larger image size (2000px) at a slightly higher compression is another option. I'm definitely no expert and others will have more experience in these matters
Ralph Turner
Well-Known Member
Another thought I’ve had which may or may not be relevant. Are uploaded files attached as they are or do they get “put through the mangle” like on social media sites? Presumably a smaller untouched image can, at normal viewing settings, look almost as good a bigger, ‘squished’ file? As I say, just a passing throught 
Adrian Button
Member
Another thought I’ve had which may or may not be relevant. Are uploaded files attached as they are or do they get “put through the mangle” like on social media sites? Presumably a smaller untouched image can, at normal viewing settings, look almost as good a bigger, ‘squished’ file? As I say, just a passing throught
I'd assume (tend to try not to use the assume phrase), but I would guess that there is surely some form of compression no matter what?
Ralph Turner
Well-Known Member
You’re most likely right
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