agreed,photos should be in the form of a avatar not attached to a signature.thanks.mud4fun said:Alee2403,
Can you do me a favour please and lose the stupidly large picture from your sig. Some of us are on slow internet connections and it is crippling page load times loading large signature pictures not to mention making the thread impossible to read because 99% of the page real estate is taken up by a repeated image.
Thanks,
Ian
you need to set your camera to the lowest resolution. I had the same issue 1st time round.Alee2403 said:Andy from Belfast. New to the forum, my car is a 2015 Corsa 3dr LE 1.4 T in grey. Working on putting pics up, anyone any ideas on how to compress my photos? Says their too big. Cheers![]()
Resizing doesn't solve it for me. By default my phones camera takes high res photos meaning the file is just too big :lol:mud4fun said:Or use paint.NET on your PC or download an app to your phone. My Nokia came with a free photo editing app and that allows you to crop and resize. I'm sure similar apps are available for iphone and android.
Uh??LimeyUK said:Resizing doesn't solve it for me. By default my phones camera takes high res photos meaning the file is just too big :lol:mud4fun said:Or use paint.NET on your PC or download an app to your phone. My Nokia came with a free photo editing app and that allows you to crop and resize. I'm sure similar apps are available for iphone and android.
I can't reduce it by resizing as the image is literally just of the car, but yet it's still too big :lol:mud4fun said:Uh??LimeyUK said:Resizing doesn't solve it for me. By default my phones camera takes high res photos meaning the file is just too big :lol:
Higher quality means bigger pixel counts. So if your phone takes a picture at 8000 pixels wide and you resize that to 800 pixels wide the file size will reduce to a tenth of its original size.
In fact it will often reduce further if your phone takes pictures in other formats than .jpg and you save as .jpg.
My phone also takes high quality pictures, approx 6mb in size in highest quality widescreen format. I've managed to load them to the forum no problem at all by simply resizing to 800 pixel wide which reduces them in file size small enough to load up here.
It sounds like whatever resizing tool you are using is not working. Try paint.NET, it works perfectly.![]()
Derp, of course :lol: was obviously too early for me yesterday :lol:mud4fun said:Limey, you are getting confused.
Resizing an image is changing the actual image dimensions to a size small enough that causes the resulting file size to be very small. The image itself remains identical.
You are referring to cropping which is not what we are talking about. Cropping will not reduce the image size by much.
You need to find an app for your phone which has a resizing tool. Most allow you to resize by a %, so you can say reduce them to 25% of their current size or by setting a new physical pixel width or height while maintaining the correct aspect ratio.
Even the highest quality source photos will become small enough to upload if saved as .jpg files at 800 pixel wide.