How do I post photos that are too large?

[Shanker69]

If I want to add some photos, how do I do it?

I've tried but I'm being told the the jpg files are too big. I have three photos but all of them are under 5MB. Two are less than 4MB.

 

[sjw]

I suspect the limit is about 2MB. You'll need to compress them, or make them literally smaller.

Alternatively, upload them somewhere else such as thumbsnap, then click the image button and then the link icon and paste the URL in

 

[Orikoru]

Send them to yourself on WhatsApp. The one that comes through is normally greatly reduced in size.

 

[Robster59]

If you're on Windows, just open them in the Photos program and resize them to whatever you want.

 

[brendy]

Host them on imgbb https://imgbb.com/ then paste the links on here.

 

[louise_a]

interesting thread, everytime i try to post a pic it says too big

 

[bobmac]

interesting thread, everytime i try to post a pic it says too big

If you are on Windows, open the PAINT programme and on the left, click on RESIZE.
A box will appear with 100 highlighted
Reduce that to 50 or 30 or 10, whatever and then save.
That will save the pic in a smaller size.


If you want to keep the original pic size, click on ''Save as'' and give it another name. Then you'll have 2 versions of the same pic

 

[louise_a]

test interesting, I can resize straight from my photos now, I didnt used to be able too

 

[KenL]

Easiest way for me is…
1. Open the picture
2. Take a screenshot
3. Crop it to remove areas of screen you don’t need
4. Save it
5. Attach to your post

 

[garyinderry]

Send them to yourself on WhatsApp. The one that comes through is normally greatly reduced in size.

This is my method. Just have to annoy someone to send it right back to you. Works well.

 

[rulie]

On my PC, if I right click on the picture, one of the options is “Resize”.

 

[Slab]

This is my method. Just have to annoy someone to send it right back to you. Works well.

On WhatsApp you can add yourself as a contact now and means you can send stuff straight to 'you'

 

[BubbaP]

Post in thread 'Oldies but goodies for sale...' https://forums.golfmonthly.com/threads/oldies-but-goodies-for-sale.107339/post-2265645

 

[garyinderry]

On WhatsApp you can add yourself as a contact now and means you can send stuff straight to 'you'

Sent to myself. It didn't go into my whatsapp folder. Screenshot of the sent photo. Will see if this works.

 

[Orikoru]

On my PC, if I right click on the picture, one of the options is “Resize”.

Is that resizing the dimensions or the filesize though? I think when the forum blocks an image it means it's too large in filesize. I'm not sure it cares about the dimensions because you can make that smaller by dragging the corner in before posting anyway.

 

[bobmac]

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Is that resizing the dimensions or the filesize though? I think when the forum blocks an image it means it's too large in filesize. I'm not sure it cares about the dimensions because you can make that smaller by dragging the corner in before posting anyway.

It's resizing the file size.

 

[sjw]

Is that resizing the dimensions or the filesize though? I think when the forum blocks an image it means it's too large in filesize. I'm not sure it cares about the dimensions because you can make that smaller by dragging the corner in before posting anyway.

If you make an image smaller in physical size, it'll be smaller in filesize as well

 

[Springveldt]

Is that resizing the dimensions or the filesize though? I think when the forum blocks an image it means it's too large in filesize. I'm not sure it cares about the dimensions because you can make that smaller by dragging the corner in before posting anyway.

Resizing the dimensions will also reduce the file size, less pixels unless you play around with the DPI.