MrEarl Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 FYI After fielding a few questions and concerns from folks about not being able to upload the same size pictures as they have previously been able to upload, I ran some tests and found that it appears a new limit of 10 mb or 1200 x1200 has been set. Upon posing the concern to Peter, he explained briefly that “We went from 80 gig to 300 gig of storage in the past year” and that we would need to start reducing the file sizes before posting. Just wanted to let you all know what I know as I know... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 11 hours ago, Terry Wiegand said: His response was that the photo size was too big - however we could still download all of the photos that we want. Now that really makes a whole lot of no sense at all. S Actually it does make sense Terry. You can still upload multiple pictures, just that the pictures that are too large will not be uploaded 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 4 hours ago, MrEarl said: You can still download multiple pictures, just that the pictures that are too large will not be downloaded. ...probably should be saying upload... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Terry, Call it ignorant or asinine - this is a limitation our hosting company imposed on us, not some arbitrary restriction i pulled out of thin air. People uploading 15mb photos that are 4000h*4000h pixels are clogging our storage. Its plain and simple. Therefore the solution is to make EVERYONE reduce the size of their photos BEFORE they upload them. Peter 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 52 minutes ago, old-tank said: ...probably should be saying upload... and done, thanks Willie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 There also appears to be a total size limit per thread, not just a per photo limit. For example, it used to be 20 megs per post/thread, now it's just under 10. I can post one 9 megabyte photo or 9 one-megabyte photos, but that's it. Even if I try to do it in separate posts, the individual thread has a limit. The total size of all the images and bandwidth is the issue, probably less so than the individual size of the images (yes, you should resize your photos--72 dpi and 1000 pixels wide is plenty for the internet). Cutting down on those ridiculously over-sized photos is a good idea. Downloading those every time someone clicks on a thread really burns through the bandwidth. I should also point out that I'm perfectly OK with this. It gets expensive having all those photos sitting around. My website, which has 100 photos of each of nearly 500 cars and each photo is about half a megabyte, costs a pretty good chunk of change to host but I like having the sold cars available to review as well as current inventory. So I pay the hosting and bandwidth costs. As a non-profit, I understand that the AACA would rightfully want to control the costs that it can and this is a relatively minor handicap to the posters here. Shrink your photos properly and you shouldn't hit the limit on any post. Thanks for clarifying, Peter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD1956 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 This may help explain. There are three pictures below. The original is 3.8 megabytes. The second is reduced to 1.1 megabytes. The third is further reduced to 312 Kilobytes. Image quality is hardly affected. Would you rather have one picture in your pocket, or possibly 3? x x 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 Thanks for that input Matt, the tests I ran didn't seem to limit the total mb's per post or thread. Maybe more testing is in order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KongaMan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 9 minutes ago, Matt Harwood said: yes, you should resize your photos--72 dpi and 1000 pixels wide is plenty for the internet). Cutting down on those ridiculously over-sized photos is a good idea. Downloading those every time someone clicks on a thread really burns through the bandwidth. Bingo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Just now, MrEarl said: Thanks for that input Matt, the tests I ran didn't seem to limit the total mb's per post or thread. Maybe more testing is in order. When I posted that pink '56 Desoto for sale a few days ago, I hit the limit--I usually do 21 photos but I could only do 12 or 13 now. When I tried to add more photos in a second post under the first, I was notified that I'd already hit the limit and couldn't upload any more. So I just went with enough photos to stay under the limit. No problem! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 You won't have to do any photo resizing if you adjust your camera settings to take photos in the 3-5 mb range. That's what I did and I've not experienced the size limit problems others have reported. You won't tell the difference when you view them here on the forum. Another advantage of setting the camera to a smaller file size is you can upload multiple photos to the forum much faster. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3-5 mb is still HUGE for posting on the internet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Matt Harwood said: 3-5 mb is still HUGE for posting on the internet. I agree. Most forums set a limit of about 2-3 mb. I keep my camera set on 5 mb so the photos stored on my camera will print out decent if I need to do that. IF I want large high resolution photos printed I set my camera on 12 mb. 5 mb is a good compromise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KongaMan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 I almost always take pictures in the highest resolution available, as it's crucial for reproduction, enlargement, etc. However, images that are destined for posting are usually resized (e.g. 1000 x 666) and compressed to ~400K. 99+% of the images posted are for illustrative purposes only; that purpose is not compromised by reformatting the image. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, KongaMan said: I almost always take pictures in the highest resolution available, as it's crucial for reproduction, enlargement, etc. However, images that are destined for posting are usually resized (e.g. 1000 x 666) and compressed to ~400K. 99+% of the images posted are for illustrative purposes only; that purpose is not compromised by reformatting the image. This. Our studio photos are taken at about 5 MB in a format that doesn't translate to the internet (.raw). We edit them to about 10% of that size (400-500k) for posting on the website but keep the large sized raw files in case someone needs to see some obscure detail. We can usually zoom in on the raw file and get the detail we need without pulling the car out and taking another photo. But there's no need to put gigantic photos on a message board--they aren't being printed or used for artwork. It's a courtesy to shrink them to size so people don't have to wait while they download and to not burn through all the AACA's bandwidth. Just because we don't pay to use this site doesn't mean it's free and resizing photos is one way we can all help control costs without reducing the quality or quantity of posts. Yes, it's a pain in the butt, but I do it every single time. If you don't know how to do it, there are myriad tutorials out there for just about any software package you're using. I use Photoshop and it takes about 3-5 seconds to load the photo, crop it to size, and re-save as a different file name so I still have the large file as a backup. Original (~5 MB): Published (~450K): Edited May 15, 2018 by Matt Harwood (see edit history) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxgvd Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 My camera is a Nikon and it has a setting in the menu where two images are recorded, raw and jpeg, per click. I always select jpeg from the computer's hard drive to upload an image for this forum, newsletters, email, etc. Raw is for hard prints, desktop backgrounds or to study a detail. Regards, Gary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 What size is the jpeg you upload to the forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) I typically crop them to 1000 wide by 750 tall and 72 DPI. That's the same size I use on our website. Big enough to be seen but not crippling in terms of size. The files end up between 400k and 700k, a much more manageable size that doesn't kill detail. I also use the forum software to shrink it down to 250 or 400 DPI to make it look like a thumbnail so that it doesn't dominate the thread. Click on the photo and you can resize it online and when viewers click on it, it enlarges to full size: Edited May 15, 2018 by Matt Harwood (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beemon Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 People who have beef with a non profit organization trying to save memory and money should look into donating terabyte hard drives to the server administrator and maybe donate some money for hosting fees. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFranklin Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 I always shrink the size before posting and never see the quality diminish. Also for Terry, the total packet size to send the data correctly is somewhat larger than the photo you are uploading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 18 hours ago, Terry Wiegand said: WOW. Maybe this is a case of just not getting it. The vast majority of all of the photos that I have ever posted fall into the 4.6mb range. If I try to post two photos of that size it tells me that there is a limit of 9.77mb. When I went to school 4.6 twice adds up to 9.2. I guess the biggest beef that most folks have with this is that there was NO prior notification that these changes were going to take place. We are told after the fact. I personally feel like higher resolution photos really show the detail in parts that are being photographed and when information concerning intricate details of something is being related, that detail becomes extremely important to the viewer. I'm just not buying the explanation that the storage relates 100% to the size of a photograph. And then we're told that we can post all of the photos that we want. Hello! It all adds up at the end of the day no matter what the size of the photograph is. One can have 30 photographs posted or 450. Somebody is going to have to tell me just how 450 photos equates to less storage space taken up. Terry Wiegand South Hutchinson, Kansas Dang, Terry, stumped your toe when you crawled out of bed this [yesterday] morning??. Let's get to something SERIOUS! Like why have my emojis gone anemic? Ben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 57 minutes ago, Ben Bruce aka First Born said: Dang, Terry, stumped your toe when you crawled out of bed this [yesterday] morning??. Let's get to something SERIOUS! Like why have my emojis gone anemic? Ben or his head maybe I think the color has returned to the new emojis. and note that you can find all the old familiar faces (emojis) if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the new emojis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 9 hours ago, Ben Bruce aka First Born said: Dang, Terry, stumped your toe when you crawled out of bed this [yesterday] morning??. Let's get to something SERIOUS! Like why have my emojis gone anemic? Ben Well, that lets me know it is my computer. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted May 17, 2018 Author Share Posted May 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Ben Bruce aka First Born said: Well, that lets me know it is my computer. Ben not necessarily Ben. Sometimes when I pull them up they are without color. ? I just drop down and use the old ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 11 minutes ago, MrEarl said: not necessarily Ben. Sometimes when I pull them up they are without color. ? I just drop down and use the old ones See how that works.. Beggars can't be choosers. Works. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 (edited) On 5/13/2018 at 7:42 PM, MrEarl said: FYI After fielding a few questions and concerns from folks about not being able to upload the same size pictures as they have previously been able to upload, I ran some tests and found that it appears a new limit of 10 mb or 1200 x1200 has been set. Upon posing the concern to Peter, he explained briefly that “We went from 80 gig to 300 gig of storage in the past year” and that we would need to start reducing the file sizes before posting. Just wanted to let you all know what I know as I know... 80 gig to 300 gig? I just bought a 2 terabyte external hard drive for $65.00 at MicroCenter last week. 300 gigabytes = .3 terabytes. Edited May 17, 2018 by Larry Schramm (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Phillips Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 On 5/15/2018 at 10:52 AM, JohnD1956 said: There are three pictures below. The original is 3.8 megabytes. The second is reduced to 1.1 megabytes. The third is further reduced to 312 Kilobytes. Image quality is hardly affected. Would you rather have one picture in your pocket, or possibly 3? I'd rather have that beautiful '53 Special two-door sedan! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Just for clarification.... I'm going to be installing my interior next week (hopefully!!), and I have a tendency to post a lot of photos as I go along. (So I've heard......) (Sometimes I have posted up to 12 - 15 photos in a single post so others can watch and maybe get the confidence to take on a new project.) ....... I'm probably the reason for the new rule!! Does the 10 mb limit apply to "Today's Post", or the entire thread? I have my Nikon set to take large file photos, simply because I like to look back at my photos and it's amazing what you can zoom in on and spark your memory from a year ago. What program do you all use to resize your photos? Basically, if I get the photos down to 1mb, you are allowed to post 10 at a time? Thank you! Respectfully Gary Wheeler '37 - 48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 14 minutes ago, Gary W said: Just for clarification.... I'm going to be installing my interior next week (hopefully!!), and I have a tendency to post a lot of photos as I go along. (So I've heard......) (Sometimes I have posted up to 12 - 15 photos in a single post so others can watch and maybe get the confidence to take on a new project.) ....... I'm probably the reason for the new rule!! Does the 10 mb limit apply to "Today's Post", or the entire thread? I have my Nikon set to take large file photos, simply because I like to look back at my photos and it's amazing what you can zoom in on and spark your memory from a year ago. What program do you all use to resize your photos? Basically, if I get the photos down to 1mb, you are allowed to post 10 at a time? Thank you! Respectfully Gary Wheeler '37 - 48 Gary, I use this one. www.easy-resize.com It is somewhat slow but allows me to post them without problems after resizing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD1956 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 13 hours ago, Gary W said: What program do you all use to resize your photos? Basically, if I get the photos down to 1mb, you are allowed to post 10 at a time? Gary, the software that came with my camera can resize my pictures. But Matt posted that he uses this sites software to do his. I'm not sure how that works but I like the assertion that once you click on Matt's photo, the user can see the picture in full detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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