Issue with uploading image on resizeyourimage.com

There is no doubt that the process for adding pictures to the BA beer database is an anachronism. It is overly restrictive on the specifications, and a PITA to get pictures that both meet these specifications and are visually "good" pictures. Improving this is on the list of issues, but no doubt requires significant behind-the-scenes changes to the data base.

(BTW, it is my opinion that this fussy restriction is what led to so many "non-original" photos being uploaded to the data base... JMO, though.)

However, that is a very small corner of BA. Your decision that "contributing to BA is more of a pain-in-the-ass then it's worth" based on just this is unfair.

 

Crop it to a roughly 1:2 ratio before resizing .
Also, in the case of tall bottles like that , with no distinguishing features/labels at the top, consider cropping closer to the label, & leaving most or all of the bottle neck out of it.

 

I am having trouble uploading these two photos. What am I doing wrong?

Pollyanna's rebrand of Lite Reading.

Miskatonic's Hallo, Mein Name Ist

They were both resized to 150x300 using resizeyourimage and after I select the photo and select UPLOAD,it appears to be doing something before returning with "No file was uploaded".
This seems like a response that points to something on my end. There is a a photo in the file, it is the same as I have posted above, yet nothing works.

 

Resizeyourimage said they were less than 5k. The attached photos above were linked from postimage, if that changes anything.
Thanks, though I'll look into it.

 

Lite Thinking used to be Lite Reading. The same GABF gold beer, but rebranded due to a conflict. I just requested an edit to reflect the new name of Lite Reading which is already in the database.

Thank you.

 

It was probably mentioned already (didn't go back and look), but since I generally avoid "upload your stuff to our website and we'll do stuff to it and promise not to do anything nefarious" services, I was inclined to look for an app that would remain local to my PC.

This one works for me:
https://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

 

The file size adjustments are kind of hidden (their UI could use some work). Click the "Settings" button to the right of the "Output Format" drop-down. You can adjust the output quality (and, hence, file size) there. The "9" (90) setting works for me to get the file below 20KB.

 

Addendum: @Snowcrash000 - I follow a multi-step process for preparing beer pic uploads to the BA database.

1. Using Photoshop, I crop the picture to a 1x2 aspect ratio.
2. Again, using Photoshop, I reduce the image size to 800x1600 pixels, using a reduced, but still high, compression quality.
3. I load this image into FastStone, set to JPEG "90", width exactly 150 pixels.

Works every time, usually actually around 15-18 KB size and decent quality (considering the pixel count and file size.) I actually get better picture quality from FastStone for the final reduction than I get if I use Photoshop all the way.

A bit of a PITA, but for me, the Photoshop steps are just a couple of minor extra steps, since I typically do a bit of mild color correcting anyway, so the image is already loaded into Photoshop.

 

Here are images from my last upload:

Original photo, cropped to 1x2, saved as JPG, max quality (file size 1.2MB):



Photo reduced to 800x1600, saved as JPG, somewhat increased compression (reduced quality - file size 157KB):



Final output from FastStone (150x300, 90 quality, file size 15.2KB):