Any iPhone photo compression tricks for uploads to this website? It seems like a large percentage of the photos I try and upload / post exceed the 125KB limit
Thanks

Ken

I usually pull them up in GIMP (GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM) and scale the image down, and then export to JPEG or whatever.

Very powerful, but not an easy program to use though... It's like a less intuitive photoshop. Might be overkill, but I'm familiar enough to make it work for image downscaling.

Plus it's free.

There are tutorials on youtube.

Most of us are using an image hosting site to allow the photos to be seen on the forums...I and others are using the Free Site https://postimages.org/
I use to use Photobucket till they changed their terms of service which increased the cost beyond reason...It was a job to re address every picture from it to the postimage site to have continued photos here.

It's not compression...It's size.

Digital photos have a size in pixels X-Y.  In addition they have a defined resolution in pixels per inch (DPI).  As the camera quality has improved over time, these values, especially the first one, has improved.  But, most users don't realize this so they never consider that their 'snapshot' is high enough quality to be printed on paper with decent quality at a size of 4.5 feet by 3.5 feet (4032X3024@72DPI).

I crop my images to remove any un-needed elements from the background, and then resize to 800X600.  An important step is to use whatever tool you view with to "view -> Actual Size".  This will really help inform how big the photo is.  With these steps I usually end up around 100K.

YMMV.

Great, will try these Ideas

Ken

Use Tapatalk. You can choose from sizes to upload.


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Thanks Mike, was wondering about that

Ken