Gripe on Image Sizes

[ovrszd]

Great .

Now if people would rotate their phone to Landscape Mode we would have better pictures to look at.

X I've been trying to teach my family that for several years and finally gave up. We had a shop party for one of our offroad group that died. I took a big screen TV and my laptop to my Son's shop. Let people download pics from their phones onto my laptop in a folder. Then showed them in slideshow mode on the TV all evening. When some of their pics would come on the screen they'd be narrow and small. Had to walk up to the TV to even see them. One person said hey why are my pics narrow like that and yours aren't???? My Sons said oh here we go..... So I gave them the lecture again. Probably didn't stick..... MC's pic is an example....

 

[ovrszd]

We could resize more.

I shoot my pics at high resolution for the reason Moss stated. Just want to make sure the limitations set don't destroy the detail quality of a pic.

 

[TractorGuy]

The problem with an upload size limit for me would be I couldn't upload from my phone. I don't see an easy way to resize on it.

On my PC I do a batch conversion into a different folder or the same folder depending if I want to preserve the high definition. For that i use IrfanView and set the long side to 1400px and the quality to 96%. That usually results in a picture of good quality that is under a MB.

Some photos call for portrait but in most cases the landscape mode makes the best result. I get especially irritated at people shooting video in portrait. Those won't even play in FB on Firefox. I can play them on the phone or in Chrome but no go in Firefox.

 

[ArlyA]

I get irritated waiting for large pics to DL that people must think that everyone wants to wait around to see.
I just move on.

 

[BoylermanCT]

I would vote to have TBN resize to smaller pics. I don’t have unlimited data on my cell phone, and don’t want to blow thru my data on 2-5mb pics when smaller sizes easily get the job done.

 

[MossRoad]

I guess we're fortunate to have 5 lines of unlimited for $30 a line. I get 35mb speed on LTE on an old iPhone6.

Home is the slowest AT&T offers around here and it's 30mb down. No issues ever with large pictures, streaming video, etc...

So my phone on LTE is faster than my computer on our home service.

 

[MossRoad]

My wife's iPhone SE2020 gets 54mb down on LTE and the same 30mb when on our WIFI that I do.

 

[Xfaxman]

The problem with an upload size limit for me would be I couldn't upload from my phone. I don't see an easy way to resize on it.

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I would vote to have TBN resize to smaller pics. I don’t have unlimited data on my cell phone, and don’t want to blow thru my data on 2-5mb pics when smaller sizes easily get the job done.

You don't have to resize it, now the new version resizes when pictures over 2500 pixels wide or tall are uploaded.

Read post #28 of this thread Gripe on Image Sizes

Here is a test at 5000x3750 and 3.12MB:

It got resized to 2500x1875:

 

[JethroB]

I’d like to see photos downsized for the sake of the members here with limited data plans or slow service. I remember those days of dial up and slow DSL service. The site automatically doing it would be best.

 

[wawajake]

I have all sorts of problems downsizing pics, I prefer the site automatically does or size limits increased. Its the 21st century even here in rural Canada we have unlimited data plans.

 

[Scar0B2150]

Phones are next to impossible to get a Pic down sized on, before you upload it.
I have to download mine to the PC, then "re-size" them using Office 2010 Picture manager. Most of mine are 640x480pxl (120kb) down from 3984X2988 (4MB).
Even with unlimited data, the BIG pxl images take a long time to display VIA DSL.

 

[JethroB]

A workaround for downsizing a photo on an iPhone is to email the photo to yourself. It will prompt you to choose the size to email, small, medium, large or original.

 

[ArlyA]

Gee, I'm so behind the times. I only use my home PC to post on forums AND and I edit all my lame* photos.

* no photographer

 

[ptsg]

The downsizing feature for pictures has now been implemented for a couple days.

So, all you need to do, is to upload the pictures in whatever size they have and forget about it.

 

[JethroB]

The downsizing feature for pictures has now been implemented for a couple days.

So, all you need to do, is to upload the pictures in whatever size they have and forget about it.

They are still pretty big though, 1-3 MB as estimated by Muhammad). I’m just trying to be considerate of others.

 

[Scar0B2150]

The downsizing feature for pictures has now been implemented for a couple days.

So, all you need to do, is to upload the pictures in whatever size they have and forget about it.

Muhammad's pic on page 3 is 2.84 MB and it was resized to 1,184px × 2,500px.
And Xfaxman's pic on page 5 is 3.33 MB and it was resized to 2,500px × 1,875px
That is a lot of data to download on just 2 pictures. Especially if your on limited data or slow internet.

I’m just trying to be considerate of others.

I agree.
It's not a real issue for me personally when using my PC.

 

[ArlyA]

We are on DLS of moderate speed, at best. Nonetheless, 1 MEG max for any attacment would be fine by me.

 

[Muhammad]

I don't want to resize down below 2500px as there's value in the large images.

I will look into setting up more compression to reduce file size further.

 

[Xfaxman]

File size is not proportional to pixel size.
The test 5000px I resized up with Paint, from 1280x960 file size was 353KB. This is the original from 2005:

When it went to 5000x3750px file size went to 3.12MB. The file size displayed now in post #48 is 3.17MB and pixel size is 2500x1875.

I used Paint to resize the original 353KB file size up to 2500x1875 and the file size is now 1.24MB.

So there are two identical same pixel sizes, with major different file sizes.

I don't understand all I know about this .

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been beating this drum for quite a while now. I have unlimited data but not the patience to match it. One member likes to include two or three big pictures in a post, and then will get quoted multiple times. This can go on for several days, and my service is so slow that I can't even read that thread. Tonight he mentioned that he's unable to post pics as his photo provider has folded. I'd been wondering why I'd been able to visit that thread for a while.