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Pillar of the Community
United States
3230 Posts |
No one captures pictures in the sub megabyte realm anymore (not for years). Not even close. I have 5-10 MB photos that I can reduce down a bit, but going to 300KB...nope. I just tried doing it using multiple tools. Most tools won't try to do it less than 1MB and Irfanview works but completely screws up the color profiles (and, yes, I tried a number of its options without luck). No other forums that I'm aware of have a such a ridiculous size limitation. Most have something like a 5MB limitation. Maybe in the background they reduce the size themselves, but don't put the onus on the contributor. If archive capacity is an issue, then maybe consider purging images that are past some number of years old. Please upgrade this ability. |
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Forum Dad
 United States
23808 Posts |
When someone wants to fork out the $750-$1,000 to pay a developer to auto-optimize uploads, I'll do it. I'm having issues paying the bills right now. Plus, you know dam well if I do that, a whole different batch of people will scream about that. There is tons of free software out there for image editing on all devices; most have standard stuff. Even my Jethro Gibbs Motorola flip phone and its 1MP camera had crop and resize functions. Take a few minutes to learn it and it's no problem. Over 1600px across and 221KB. More than good enough for anything on this forum.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3230 Posts |
Bobby, sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve. But, I'm going to double down. This forum is what 15...20 years old? 300K was somewhat sufficient. Now its abysmal. I'm not a technical ignoramus. I get it. First off, the picture are created from photos from an SLR, not from my phone. Second, I tried multiple avenues and none would shrink what I had to less than 1MB with the exception of Irfanview which splotched up gold to green. I tried Adobe Photoshop, Photos, Paint, and multiple online resizers. About the forum and the money side of things. Yeah, I don't relish the thought of forking out a bunch of dough for what's basically a great spot to chat and show photos and information. Have you looked into free open-source forums? They're free and supported by a community of developers. One of the top ones is Discourse ( https://itsfoss.com/open-source-forum-software/). In theory, this could also be moved to one or more Discord servers and those uploads are relatively unlimited. The best part is you don't have to maintain much of anything other than just moderate. Thoughts? |
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Forum Dad
United States
23808 Posts |
Email me a big one, bobby@ here.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1686 Posts |
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I'm not a technical ignoramus. I am. I have learned how to post pics here. It's not that hard. Just use the Pixlr Desktop Image Optimizer in the Helpful Posting Links. Cheers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7171 Posts |
I never had an issue posting a picture and I use a full frame dslr Canon 6D and now a mirrorless R6 MKII. When ever I hear the file size is too small, I always blame the poster. I never ever had an issue resizing photos to fit the forum. Sorry not getting a picture to load here is user error (like you being the user) Here you go 25 mp image resized to 300k.  And if you think that's hard, how about a 100 megabit .fit file.  Edited by hfjacinto
10/04/2025 6:04 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7171 Posts |
Honestly upload the photos you want to box at full size and I'll convert them for you to show you that it's you and not the forum. Message me where you upload them to.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18070 Posts |
I use adobe photoshop elements. I crop the original image as needed--typically a square slightly larger than the coin. Resize to 800 or 900 pixels. Output as a .jpg--adjusting 'quality level' until it falls below 300k. For the record, I'm not a fan of the 300k limit, but it is what it is. I get the rationale.
Edited by ijn1944
10/04/2025 6:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
8569 Posts |
No problem here either.
I take my digital photos and uploaded them to my PC, then use the Microsoft Windows "Photos" program.
I can crop and edit size to anything I like. Usually about 600 x 600 or 800 x 400, and under 300KB.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3230 Posts |
I appreciate the willingness to assist. I'd rather not count on others to do what I should be able to. Especially , if I want to do this multiple times. For the record, this is the first time I've been unsuccessful in resizing photos for the site. It might be because of the multi-level processing I did including Lightroom.
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Valued Member
United States
313 Posts |
A quick option I've been doing with my photos I want to post is to open them up in whatever viewer you want and then use Microsoft's Snipping tool and just snip a screenshot of the image and save it. Use that to upload, haven't had a problem with size and it's quick and easy without mucking around with the original image.
Hope this helps...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1370 Posts |
Heck, Windows Photo Viewer is on every copies of Windows 10 & 11. Crop and resize takes 2 seconds. 300KB is just fine.
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Valued Member
Italy
241 Posts |
Quote:Have you looked into free open-source forums? They're free and supported by a community of developers. One of the top ones is Discourse ( https://itsfoss.com/open-source-forum-software/). In theory, this could also be moved to one or more Discord servers and those uploads are relatively unlimited. The best part is you don't have to maintain much of anything other than just moderate. Migrating such a forum, with its 20 years of contents, to an opensource one is a huge endeavour. If the admins are reluctant to implement auto-resizing/sizing for photos (which is really not such a technical hurdle) and have been quoted $1000 for that, I can only imagine what a migration would be quoted at. A gazillion $? If Bobby ever considers migrating.. I would encourage choosing something more "classical" like phpbb which betters adapts to the kind of discussion we have here .. OR something paid like invision or vbullettin. Something like Discourse is -- in my almost-boomer-opinion -- very dissonant with the kind of forum that CCF still is (and thank god for that..). On a general level, maybe Bobby could try finding people to help for free here among the members. You might find some have experience in these sort of things. For example.. and I'm not volunteering  .. apart from working in the web field, I've migrated by hand several forums of similar dimension to the CCF and was a contributor for phpbb many years ago  
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17093 Posts |
Although I often post pics from my Windows 11 laptop, I do all my photo editing on my ageing Dell desktop that runs Windows 7. I have an old program called Microsoft Photo Premium 10 that is great for resizing photos. I normally find that by resizing a photo to 4 inches square and selecting a size of 325 pixels per inch, this usually gives me a photo that's quite sharp and is around 300K in size. If it's slightly too big, I just resize it slightly until it's under 300K.
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Today 5H 38M ago
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18070 Posts |
I would imagine artist renditions (or 'courtroom sketches') of coins wouldn't be viable...
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Forum Dad
United States
23808 Posts |
Most people's biggest problem is compression. They have it set on 90-100 quality. (Or their phone came with that setting) This is fine for print, but huge overkill for the web. All my images are no more than 70. In fact, all of CCF Press's images are 65. Here is a pic at 65 compression, 2,000px x 1,000px, at 217KB. 100% fine for what we need here.  |
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Posted 10/04/2025 5:00 pm
