Upload Images seems to have become impossible

I ran into this when changing avatar photos. My best advice would be to under size your image at 250 X 125 or something that works with the size limit.

 

ResizeYourImage still seems to work for me -- maybe it does depend on the browser, though, since I'm also using Chrome (and the main reason I switched was because a few sites were not working right on Firefox anymore.)

But yeah, never use Paint for these sorts of things. In my experience it always makes the file much bigger than it needs to be for its size and format, and if you try to save in lower color depths it ruins almost everything.

 

ResizeYourImage is working for me too. I use Firefox. I uploaded 10-20 photos in the last few weeks. The results seem light saturated and a little blurry, but that may be an artifact of reducing the image by so much. But the webpage works quite nicely and is easy to use once you get familiar with it.

 

I use the free PhotoScape for all of my Windows image editing, including resizing and reducing the quality to get smaller files. After doing one or two it becomes pretty easy. I take an image of a can/bottle, set crop ratio to 2:1, frame the can/bottle in a rectangle, crop it, reduce image to 300 pixels on the longest side (reducing the other dimension to 150), then reduce the jpeg quality to reduce the image size during saving. Takes longer to describe that process than do it. Takes me about 15 seconds.

I also use PhotoScape to prep my pictures for NBS, WBAYDN, and Beer Haul forums. Here is a link to download;

https://en.softonic.com/download/photoscape/windows/redirect-post-download

 

I always use MS Paint to resize my pics to the correct dimensions, and many times this results in a byte size under the 20 Kb requirement. (I mostly submit pics of places if that makes any difference.) If the 20 Kb is not met, I'll use https://bulkresizephotos.com/ which always seems to reduce the bytes anywhere from 75% to 95% somehow. You can drag/drop on your pc any number of pics and they are resized instantly. Then it's a simple download to get the revised pics back to your pc. I don't notice and loss of image quality, but it's hard to tell minor changes on pics that are that small.

 

I often resize images on my phone which has better software for smaller images (because of instagram and other mobile platforms where smaller image data is ideal) and just send it to myself on facebook messenger or email. I know this is cumbersome as these things are but should you find yourself in a bind in the future this may help you out in the long run. Glad you seem to have it sorted out though, just wanted to add my 2 cents.

 

BA should automatically do it, but it does not.

Cheers!

 

I use bulk all the time after cropping my pics on my mobile. It's pretty hard to beat.

 

Having BA lower the jpeg quality to get the size down would work, but I wouldn't trust automatic cropping. I alerted a hotel once that the image of their sign that they uploaded to Facebook was cropped automatically, turning the name of the hotel "interesting" by cropping the "C" off "Canal". Using automated crop may work good for scenery, but for beer labels you'd want the whole thing and automated cropping could easily truncate.

 

I've been using GIMP for years.

STEPS:

Under Image, select Scale Image
Resize the image pixel size and resolution (to 72).
Under Filters -> Enhance -> Sharpen
Under File, select Export As.
Rename the file (with .jpg), click Export; adjustments window will open
Check 'Show preview in image window'
Move the Quality slider (if need be) to make File Size 20.4 kB or below
Click Export

NOTE: on occasion a 20.4 kB size will not end up working for upload - so, if it doesn't, redo the image at 20.3 kB or below and that will work every time ... btw, not sure if there's a reliable app for GIMP ... https://www.gimp.org/

 

I don't post many pics at all but never have a problem loading them into imgur and then copying the link ???

 

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