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Post by randomnobody on May 22, 2018 2:49:23 GMT
My phone's camera lost the option to adjust resolution in an update a while back. (I know, right?) It's "only" 8MP but that's still a pretty big photo. Pretty annoying.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 1:57:44 GMT
I've posted of some resolutions in the past and whomever is coding the site can write the resizing into the tables for the attachment option here. The first link here, Shrink Pic, is a free software tool easily downloaded to windows machine and can work seamlessly, or optioned, or shut off. www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htmHere is a tool offered on another board that can resize single or multiple images which can be saved as a compressed zip file www.ben-major.com/tools/usmf-resize.phpA similar and common type www.simpleimageresizer.com/upload#.WwS-g0gvy3AA somewhat clunky but sometimes useful image share from Google Drives that can be used with img tags here. sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/I hate to predict doom but imgur will fail in time. It is the way of the world. Always back up files. Thumb drives are cheap and crisis have been avoided by my having several dupes of many files. I do use imgur a lot and like it but I feel a crash acomin' sooner than later The presentations by several here are no less than fantastic and honestly, there are some very active posters here that don't post many files, so it really is attention to the attachment feature that can make a huge difference. I feel though that a lot of this will still fall on deaf ears but it is hopeful to read some understand the big picture. I most often try to limit any forum uploads to less than 1mb a picture and many of my pictures taken pre 2018 were with a 3 megapixel Canon from the 2001 era. Nothing wrong with it. The largest images using it run about 1.5 mb. My new/old Sony pocket dude run with the smallest at 5mb iirc (omg). Oh look, we can upload a zip! An interesting and sometimes fun read that includes a clue to a wine label.
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Post by randomnobody on May 23, 2018 2:13:48 GMT
My old phone was a 5mp camera that could reduce to 3mp, but had no flash and very poor light correction do some photos looked great at low resolution and others were outright terrible even at high resolution.
I have a little point-and-shoot, somewhere, from circa 2008 that goes up to 10mp but I believe it can be lowered to 1.2 or 1.6. Doesn't make for very good photos, though, even at 10mp. Turns out resolution isn't all there is to digital photography.
I most often post here from my phone, as I'm doing now, ironically with my laptop playing YouTube videos as I browse... Anyway, options for image editing are slim on my phone. They used to be better, but some update killed them. I do what I can with cropping, but often can't be bothered to upload to a hosting service if I'm just trying to make a quick post.
Luckily I don't post many photos, so my impact is not tremendous. Others surely benefit from more advanced solutions.
I'm inclined to agree on imgur. It's gotten pretty bad over the last two or three years, and quite often if I know an image link (eg Reddit etc) will take me to imgur, I'll just skip it. Direct embedding seems to be okay still, or at least better than Photobucket.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2018 16:51:26 GMT
If we can laugh at people for responding to years old classified ads, can't we also get them purged after a certain time and knock a big chunk out of the upkeep?
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Post by potatofarmer on Jun 5, 2018 22:12:22 GMT
I'd also suggest Irfanview for resizing images (and general image manipulation - crop, etc.) www.irfanview.com/If you download the plugins as well (those have to be installed separately, but are available on the same download page) there's a really nice one titled "Save for Web" which greatly shrinks the file size down. It'll give you a little warning first if the image is particularly large. Here's a screenshot (of a screenshot, of a...) just to show how well it can crunch images down.
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