Gripe on Image Sizes

[Diggin It]

In this post ( Forestry mulchers: drum or disk? ), there are two images. One is over 8m, the other is over 11M. There is simply no valid reason for images to be that large in file size. Most forums I've been part of limit upload sizes and won't accept images as large as those two. We need to remember that many people are still on low bandwidth connections, some still on various dialup plans, others on limited speed DSL or cellular programs. Others are on satellite or cable plans with daily bandwidth limits.

Consider imposing such upload limits here. 1Mb should be much more than sufficient.

 

[ArlyA]

I aggree! Some images people post are huge and I won't wait around for them to DL. I just move on.

 

[Xfaxman]

Yep, I was hoping the new version would take care of that problem.

I clicked the link, then clicked the 11.9 MB picture. It took ten seconds to show up. Fortunately I have an unlimited data plan.

 

[ovrszd]

Didn't we have a limit size at one time??? I can't remember what I had for breakfast but seems like I always to resize pics before posting them. I think X even taught me how.

 

[sea2summit]

Okay boomer.


Sorry, debil made me do it

But seriously, most forums do limit the sizes automatically and especially from mobile large pics are a pain in the rear.

 

[Xfaxman]

Didn't we have a limit size at one time??? I can't remember what I had for breakfast but seems like I always to resize pics before posting them.

Yes it was reduced from 10MB to 1MB with no warning. Nothing would happen when uploading.
Then it was set back to 10MB

I think X even taught me how.

Yep, the ole memory is still working.

Both, and mine is a lot older than yours.

 

[ptsg]

It would be even better if the forum would resize the pictures during upload, so we don't have to do it manually.

Pretty much like the avatar feature works. It will resize automatically, I think.

 

[Diggin It]

Important to note that 're-sizing' can mean two different things. Changing the height and width is not the same as reducing the file size. That can only be done by compression. Most photo editors do it well. I use Irfanview.

 

[deserteagle71]

Every photo I post I reduce the size to somewhere about 500kb size. That's plenty to fill a large computer monitor screen, much less the smart phone screen most people work the web with. No idea how to reduce the size of a photo on a smart phone but on a Windows computer, the included Paint program makes it a simple and 10 second procedure.

I'm the same way...my internet connection is super slow (hurry up, Starlink!) and if I see a photo is taking a while to load up I just stop the download and move on.

 

[MossRoad]

When I open photos on posts, I open them in another window. If they're loading slow, I just keep reading and come back to it later after it loads.

 

[Xfaxman]

And with the new version you can see all the pictures that were posted in the post, now in the other window by using the arrows on the keyboard or on the screen.

 

[Captain Dirty]

I was dismayed when the image that I included with a recent post was so large I had to scroll my desk top (11 x 17") to view it.

 

[Diggin It]

Here's another one, 8Mb and 11Mb: Lots of black smoke, I'm guessing turbo, am I right?


People are doing this from their phony gizmos and not even realizing it.

 

[ptsg]

Of course they don't realize it, specially when it's so easy to simply upload the picture. That's why I mentioned if there was something on the forum that would do it automatically once the pictures are uploaded.

Otherwise, you'll keep seeing this big sized pictures. From me included.

People just want to quickly upload a picture and don't want to fuss around with any other programs to compress the size of the pictures.

 

[jmc]

My iPad just told me I used up all my memory and offered a listing of my largest memory files to possibly delete. Turns out, all the pics a relative texts of her kids are like 6 megs each, for a tiny text picture!

 

[old and tired]

Here's another one, 8Mb and 11Mb: Lots of black smoke, I'm guessing turbo, am I right?

To be fair... that was a VERY large track hoe!!!! he needed all 11 megs....

Ok I downloaded it (took forever....) and resized it here.... PS. it was 12 megs after download.... here it is @ 408 KB

 

[ArlyA]

To be fair... that was a VERY large track hoe!!!! he needed all 11 megs....

Ok I downloaded it (took forever....) and resized it here.... PS. it was 12 megs after download.... here it is @ 408 KB

I'd say its still 90% larger than it needs to be. At 2+mb, its big,

 

[old and tired]

I'd say its still 90% larger than it needs to be. At 2+mb, its big,

I see now it is listed at 2 megs.... but on my disk it's listed as 408 kb... strange?!?

This one showing file size of the above photo was listed as 7 kb...

{EDIT} looks like TBN is increasing the file sizes!?!?!

 

[OzKioti]

I always take photos at the highest resolution my camera can do, which allows for cropping to even small portions of the image and still get good res. Then - into Photoshop, reduce the size to (typically) 1024 wide, and save as .jpg to usually level 3, which is fairly high compression. File size is typically around 150k.

I also hate getting photos on email where the poster sends the whole 10Mb original!

 

[Citydude]

Here's another one, 8Mb and 11Mb: Lots of black smoke, I'm guessing turbo, am I right?


People are doing this from their phony gizmos and not even realizing it.

Yawn.....