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BirdsofBC
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ok. i think i have it. the file is 1.66MB. soooo, why did this file become too large and all the rest haven't until now?
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I was uploading a gif awhile ago and it uploaded fine just didn’t play right. Then I downsized the gif so it was significantly smaller but now it wouldn’t upload because it was “too large.“ Go figure.
What worked was to upload the gif to my gallery first and post it on the board from there.
Puzzling behaviour.
What worked was to upload the gif to my gallery first and post it on the board from there.
Puzzling behaviour.
BirdsofBC
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i'm just going to go back to my routine of putting the image on my site, then use BBCode to link the image here. i dont know why i started uploading directly from my HDD.
[re: Compress] I tried it. It did indeed create a zip file. Is there another handy way to make a "too big" photo postable without reducing its size or resolution?
Well, you can’t upload a zip file.
Nature's Spectrum
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Some files contain more information at the same size. I dont know exactly what creates that "more size" but I've run into it with uploading to stock agencies several times.
If you unzip it, there's something inside, no?Well, you can’t upload a zip file.
All the GIF's I've put up here could not embed correctly. They displayed as a static pic, no movement. But if you BB Code them up, they seem to work fine. Just not in an Avatar, for some reason. Check my account details and expand it > About. You'll see the same GIF file, one works, the other does not.
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Yes, that’s what I found out yesterday.
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Well, you can’t upload a zip file.
Yes, OhLook. It’s like a container that compresses files. You unzip it again to get to the files inside. It’s not a tool to reduce the size of a photo. You can’t upload a zip file to Focus.
Indeed!
@OhLook - essentially a compression tool works only on files that have "blank space" in them so in the same concept that you can compress a pillow because it has air in it, you can't compress a bottle of water because water doesn't have (much) of anything that can be compressed.
Document files can be compressed because they have "blank space" whereas photographic image files have every bit of space filled - if you try & compress an image file, it actually gets bigger because the compression software adds it's own information to the existing file.
lurkalot
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JPG uses lossy compression, so the only way to make the file smaller is to lose quality. You can obviously drop the quality by a certain amount before you start to see a noticeable difference in the image. Likewise every time you edit and resave a jpg it will lose info.
Well, that's disappointing. It was called "Compress." I expected something like a trash compactor but less extreme. Put your item in here, then take it out, it'll be smaller.
I can't predict which images will be too big. Focus doesn't like my peacock shots, so is too great a range of saturated colors the problem? Dynamic range? No, Focus also rejected a shot with a very narrow range of wavelengths and small dynamic range until I made it smaller (by dimensions) or B&W. All the rejected images had reasonable KB numbers, according to my computer.
EOS_Fan
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I've had the same issue with images saved at 1600px on the long side, so I've tried resizing at 1200px and keeping the file size to around 1mb and all seems good 
