Twice I have tried to attach a photo

Erimus74 said:
Only to be told the photo is too big, how can I correct this

TIA
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Upload a smaller version of it? A limit on photo file size is normal on most sites. To control server space. Although this is less important these days compared to the past.
 
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Cheers for that, I understand but not sure why some photos I can attach, while others I cant
All the photos are taken on my phone & placed on my hard drive folder, I thought they would all be the same size, have to take more notice
 
Erimus74 said:
Cheers for that, I understand but not sure why some photos I can attach, while others I cant
All the photos are taken on my phone & placed on my hard drive folder, I thought they would all be the same size, have to take more notice
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The size of photo files taken at the same resolution on the same device can differ quite a lot. If there are lots of different colours in the image it cannot be compressed as well as an image that is more bland.

So for some photos you will have to decrease the image size (number of dots=pixels horizontal and vertical). So that it is smaller than the file size limit for a photo being uploaded.
 
You just need to check the file size. If it is bigger than the limit on here you need to reduce the quality of the photo in terms of number of dots in each dimension.

Now a nerdy bit.... There are different ways picture file sizes can be different. The quality of an image depends on the quality of each dot (pixel) as well as the number of dots.

For example if a pixel (dot) is 8 bits it can show one of 256 colours. If it is 16 bits it can show one of around 65000 different colours. (These figures are rough but they give you an idea.)

So when setting up a digital camera you set two things. The number of pixels (dots) in each direction (horizontally and vertically). Plus the quality of the colour of each pixel. The more dots you have and more colours you can use for each dot both increase the quality of the photo.

The picture is just a large number of coloured dots organised horizontally and vertically.

If you have a bland photo with lots of areas of the same colour the file compression reduces the size of the photo file. As instead of storing 100 dots of the same colour one after each other it encodes it as 100x whatever the dot colour is. So if you do lots of this the overall file size is smaller. Even though the quality is the same. As the photo displaying software uncompresses it again when it displays it on a screen (or prints it).

So that is the reason why some of your pictures from the same camera with the same settings are small enough to upload. While others are not.
 
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Not the easiest solution, and I'm not sure if you have it, but if you upload a picture to Facebook and then save the Facebook version of the image to your phone/computer, it will have adjusted to a size you can upload on this website.

You can change your Facebook post settings to only visible to you so people don't just see you uploading loads of random photos.
 
A quick & easy way to make a small pic is to use the Snipping Tool (on Windows) to make a screenshot of it and use that.
 
Quick solution if you have WhatsApp: send it to yourself on that (or someone who can send it back to you). WhatsApp will automatically compress the picture. Should help
 
SmallTown said:
Quick solution if you have WhatsApp: send it to yourself on that (or someone who can send it back to you). WhatsApp will automatically compress the picture. Should help
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Ah, does WhatsApp do it too?
That's much quicker than my Facebook trick.
 
If you have an iPhone when you select an image you can click image size at the bottom and pick small. None of this send to yourself lark. I assume android has similar?

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