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[Titch]

My signature doesn't show. Am I not entitled to have one? Or is it something else?

 

[Titch]

Very sorry .. forget the above, I now see it. It's me, being daft again.

 

[RasputinLives]

Hey.

I'm attempting to post an article here on CTA that includes a lot of photos from a test day I visited. The photos have been given to me by a friend and they all appear to be too large to upload on to CTA!

Any tips on how I can reduce the file size or get them up here? Please bear in mind I'm not really computer technical. They are JPEG format and I think they just be copied straight from a camera to a folder. They are all about 5mb at the moment.

 

[Brogan]

I have increased the file size limit, try again RasputinLives.

 

[RasputinLives]

Still getting the message that the uploaded file is far too large for the server I'm afraid.

 

[Brogan]

Hmm, can you upload one of the images somewhere (e.g. Dropbox) and PM me the link?

It should be possible to upload them now so I'd like to see what size they end up after being manipulated by the server.

 

[Mephistopheles]

RasputinLives and Brogan

Use this tool you can either save the re sized file or simply copy image url and insert it straight to your post.

http://www.jpegmini.com/

or

Use this program it's free.

http://www.nchsoftware.com/imageconverter/index.html?gclid=CIXC_Z2018ACFfMZtAodVlkAew

Personally I use photoshop to re size image files..

 

[Greenlantern101]

It would be useful if the website automatically resized photos like facebook does.

 

[Brogan]

It does if you configure it that way.

I prefer not to have them resized though.

 

[Mephistopheles]

It would be useful if the website automatically resized photos like facebook does.

Yes but I believe that, that sort of re sizing randomly crops the image and it isn't always centred correctly

 

[Brogan]

That's cropping, which is separate from resizing.
Resizing will always preserve the content and ratio.
Or at least it should if it has been coded correctly.

The problem with resizing is if I set arbitrary values of e.g. 1920 x 1080, if someone was to upload a long, narrow image, it would be resized and lose a lot of definition due to being limited to 1080 pixels high.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I don't use facebook much but I did upload one picture and it got messed up it was cropped from the bottom left for some reason any way it was rubbish

 

[soccerman17]

Facebook is rubbish

 

[RasputinLives]

Brogan I'll dropbox you the image this evenimg when I'm back on my own laptop.

 

[Olivier]

Just wondering if there is a feature to ignore threads. Not a biggie but it'd be nice to have,.

 

[Brogan]

Unfortunately not.

 

[Slyboogy]

Just wondering if there is a feature to ignore threads. Not a biggie but it'd be nice to have,.

Why not "unwatch" them?

 

[RasputinLives]

Or not click on them?

 

[Mephistopheles]

I have no advice, but I know what you are talking about Olivier

 

[Titch]

Just not click on the thread you don't want to watch. ?