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Pinball1970

Pinball1970

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Not something I do often but when I tried recently I kept getting a, "file too large" pop up.
I cropped it and it was less than a MB.

Any ideas?
 
Pinball1970 said:
Not something I do often but when I tried recently I kept getting a, "file too large" pop up.
I cropped it and it was less than a MB.

Any ideas?
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Since I use an installed image optimization app to lower the file size of images, I don't really have any experience with free online tools (which one is best or safe).
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Pinball1970 said:
Not something I do often but when I tried recently I kept getting a, "file too large" pop up.
I cropped it and it was less than a MB.

Any ideas?
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I get this when I screen cap something and paste it directly in. If I paste it into Phtooshop first, then copy it from there, that seems to do the trick.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
I get this when I screen cap something and paste it directly in. If I paste it into Phtooshop first, then copy it from there, that seems to do the trick.
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Bottom line seems to be that an image app or editing tool needs to mediate or intervene in the process for some reason (perhaps irrelevant of being deliberately used to decrease the file size).
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TheVat said:
Was it a jpeg? If not, did you try converting it to jpeg?
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Yah, goodness knows, since it's Sciforums, only that format might be accepted (excluding gifs for avatars).
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Yep, it's file size and format. I don't have any jpegs small enough to load here, and I'm on a device with crap editing tools. I can try cropping this cat pic down to just the head, see if that shrinks it enough. Or "blur" might work.


Eliza~Miss Grey, b 2025-07-3, & mom Louise_phtg 20251012_164051_CROP1~2.jpg

Yup. That reduced Eliza file size massively.
 
Retest with lower res Eliza, it says about .2 mp.

Eliza~Miss Grey, b 2025-07-3, & mom Louise_phtg 20251012_164051_CROP1.jpg


Ok, that worked. I think the editor here hates PNG, which is the usual format for screen caps. So conversion is needed to something that's not pixel for pixel reproduction.
 
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Is that a feature, ghosting all the text tools, for someone with a small screen, i.e. so they don't tap icons by accident? I had thought ghosting was a software thing for functions unavailable, or when a running program was lagging or freezing. Didn't realize you could deliberately select that.
 
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DaveC426913 ...

Is that a feature, ghosting all the text tools, for someone with a small screen, i.e. so they don't tap icons by accident? I had thought ghosting was a software thing for functions unavailable, or when a running program was lagging or freezing. Didn't realize you could deliberately select that.
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No. That button turns on BB code, which is basically "reveal code" mode. It allows you to manually add markdown code.

So rich text is not enabled. You add the rich text as BBcode.

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Pinball1970 said:
Not something I do often but when I tried recently I kept getting a, "file too large" pop up.
I cropped it and it was less than a MB.

Any ideas?
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I just recently encountered the same issue, posting this:

Trump 2.0

It's not enforceable. It is enforceable to the extent that nations agree to enforce it and to abide by it. I'm not that concerned with that aspect. Well, it says nothing about Bitcoin, so that's understandable, I suppose. If it's not a good idea, then it's not a good idea but the...
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I used this online compression site:
tinypng.com

TinyPNG – Compress AVIF, WebP, PNG and JPEG images

Free online image optimizer for faster websites! Reduce the file size of your AVIF, WEBP, JPEG and PNG images while preserving the image quality.
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It did the job perfectly - reduced the image with no visual loss of fidelity. Give it a try...
 
Sorry for the daft question - but where do you upload images?
The image tool I see in the post editor wants a URL, which I assume means linking to an image on a sharing site.

(While I'm here, is there a link to docs for the specific BB code version used here?)
 
pzkpfw said:
Sorry for the daft question - but where do you upload images?
The image tool I see in the post editor wants a URL, which I assume means linking to an image on a sharing site.

(While I'm here, is there a link to docs for the specific BB code version used here?)
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Click the rectangle twixt the smiley face and two link chain in your tool bar. Just about "write your reply...."
 
Pinball1970 said:
Click the rectangle twixt the smiley face and two link chain in your tool bar. Just about "write your reply...."
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Yep, saw that. Title text on it is even "Insert image".
But it gives me a pop up with one input box. The grey text in the box is "http://".
That implies it wants a link to an image hosted somewhere.
I was hoping "Uploading images" would mean there's a [Browse] button or something somewhere to literally upload from my own PC to the site.
 
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