Photo file size limit?

[Anton Largiader]

There's nothing mentioned in "How to post photos" and nothing is mentioned in "Photo posting rules" but I just uploaded two photos, max 1600 px, and for both I got "The uploaded file is too large" in the thumbnail box after the upload. Is there a size limit, or is this a problem on my end? One photo was 1.7 MB and one was 2.0 MB.

 

[gjl711]

I'm looking into that one. Hope to have an answer shortly.

 

[PinholeR5]

There's nothing mentioned in "How to post photos" and nothing is mentioned in "Photo posting rules" but I just uploaded two photos, max 1600 px, and for both I got "The uploaded file is too large" in the thumbnail box after the upload. Is there a size limit, or is this a problem on my end? One photo was 1.7 MB and one was 2.0 MB.

I also hit that limit on filesize. I then set my LRC export to limit files to 1.8MB and haven't had any problems since. Not sure what the exact limit is, though.

 

[nevermore]

I know of other instances of 1,600-pixel images getting bounced, but I’ve routinely loaded 2,048-pixel images at more than 2 MB without issue.

 

[gjl711]

Thanx all, it is a file size limit. It's being looked into now. Will have something shortly.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

File size is to be no larger than 1.6MB. The bigger the files, the slower pages will load, especially on mobile devices. I will add it to the Image Posting Rules.

For the web saving at 90% will be fine. You’ll see no loss of IQ.

 

[Anton Largiader]

I made them 1.3 and 1.6 MB and they uploaded.

WebP support will end those concerns. For high-res JPEGs the size reduction is amazing; the first ones would probably be around 100k each.