I have posted too many pics!

[Carry Pine]

I tried posting a pic today and was told I could not because it would exceed my limit. (Perhaps I've missed a post somewhere explaining this.) So, after deleting pics that I've posted over the past 2 years, I was successful in posting my pic today.

Problem is that people who follow a thread that maybe 6 months old and read about making a splined box want to look at the pictures that are referred to in the post. The guy who posted them has to remove them if he wants to post any more pictures.

Perhaps there is a cost involved in 'leaving' pictures there but surely some of the classic threads like 'How to restore a plane' and step by step instructions on building a chest of drawers deserve to remain in the archives.

Anyone else feel the same way?

Carry Pine

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

??

I vaguely remember asking a while back if there was a limit on the pix and the PTB's told me "no." I sincerely hope that this isn't another thing that's changed with recent upgrades.

Any idea what sort of number/overall Kb's of ULs you had before you started pruning?

[Carry Pine]

Skew,

At the moment it says that i am using 888 KB to save 16 uploaded thingos and i can't load any more. I always do the right thing and downsize the piccies.
I would like to think that even I have more than 16 interesting pictures that could be shared.

CP

[DJ’s Timber]

Skew,

At the moment it says that i am using 888 KB to save 16 uploaded thingos and i can't load any more. I always do the right thing and downsize the piccies.
I would like to think that even I have more than 16 interesting pictures that could be shared.

CP

That can't be right :o, this is copied straight from my attachments page;

You are currently using 25.19 MB to store 409 uploaded attachments.

[chrisb691]

Mine says "You are currently using 3.52 MB to store 80 uploaded attachments.", which would appear to be about right.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

That can't be right :o, this is copied straight from my attachments page;

You are currently using 25.19 MB to store 409 uploaded attachments.

Mine:
You are currently using 16.37 MB to store 499 uploaded attachments.

You really oughtta start cropping your pix! :p And you'll notice that Carry is using only 808Kb for 16? Them figures are about right.

But it looks like something is wrong with your setup somewhere, Carry... have a mod or "someone in the know" contacted you about it yet?

Might be time to make like a squeaky wheel? First I'd check it again, though - just to make sure they haven't slipped a "stealth fix" in on you while you weren't looking... :wink:)

[zenwood]

Mine:


You are currently using 58.50 MB to store 1,152 uploaded attachments. My oldest pic is still there (going back to June 2005). Something screwy somewhere. To avoid certain scams, if you post too quickly you have to wait a little while. Only 1 post allowed every minute. That's the only barrier I've ever run into.

[Carry Pine]

Mine:

You really oughtta start cropping your pix! :p And you'll notice that Carry is using only 808Kb for 16? Them figures are about right.

But it looks like something is wrong with your setup somewhere, Carry... have a mod or "someone in the know" contacted you about it yet?


I've only ever contacted Neil about the Forum and the Orange Caped One about my Triton. If anyone is out there, please have a look at my setup. Checking this morning: 888KB (for 16 uploaded items)

It is good to know there is no limit because those posts on fixing up old hand planes are priceless. They should stay forever.

Cheers,

Carry Pine

[Cliff Rogers]

Here is mine.

You are currently using 19.34 MB to store 358 uploaded attachments.

[pawnhead]

I prefer to use Photobucket, or Imageshack for larger pics up to 1.5MB. You can post them as links, thumbnails, or full sized images in PMs, emails, or on other message boards. You can view your albums, or sub-albums as thumbnails on a single page, or on multiple pages if you have a lot of photos stored.
They're both free, but with Imageshack you don't even have to sign up if you don't need to keep track of what you've posted. Just upload a pic, and you've got the option of a direct link, a thumbnail link, or the full image. :2tsup:

[Cliff Rogers]

The problem with linking to off-site pictures is that they may move or change address & then the post on this board no longer displays the pictures.

There are a few threads in 'The Best of' that are now missing some of their pictures. :(

[pawnhead]

Yeh, that is a downside but Photobucket and Imageshack are pretty big and they've been around for a while now so I don't think they'll fold.
If an image has disappeared, then it has more than likely been hosted on the posters own webspace which they've since shut down.
Perhaps I'm being selfish, but I like the way you can manage your albums, and post huge pics without having to resize them if you want. You can also make private albums, or post a link to an entire album or sub-album containing lots of pics on a particular project.

[scooter]

The problem with linking to off-site pictures is that they may move or change address & then the post on this board no longer displays the pictures.

There are a few threads in 'The Best of' that are now missing some of their pictures. :(


Totally agree with Cliff's point, it is a real shame that some valuable pics are now missing & a fair number of threads are the poorer for it.

'Tis indeed a pain to resize & reduce pics to upload, but it is a worthwhile contribution to the quality of the forums and is appreciated by many.


Carry, bit of a busy time for the admin team but your prob has been noted & will be addressed as soon as possible.


Cheers..................Sean

[Carry Pine]

Mine says "You are currently using 3.52 MB to store 80 uploaded attachments.", which would appear to be about right.

Yes but you aren't stopped from posting any more piccies.
I get :
You are currently using 888 KB to store 16 uploaded attachments and my red line goes across the horizontal dial only leaving a little bit of green. When I come back from hols I'll investigate further.

Thank you for the comparison of your usage.

Carry Pine

[chrisb691]

Yes but you aren't stopped from posting any more piccies.
I get :
You are currently using 888 KB to store 16 uploaded attachments and my red line goes across the horizontal dial only leaving a little bit of green. When I come back from hols I'll investigate further.

Thank you for the comparison of your usage.

Carry Pine

I know I'm not stopped from posting. My intent was purely to give a comparative reference. :)

[ubeaut]

Carry Pine - Probably has nothing to do with the number of pic you have posted overall but the number in one post. That message usually appears when you have posted something which has been cut n pasted from word or a similar doc publisher. To avoid this problem you should compile/edit your post in the forums message box then you shouldn't have that problem.

If you must compose away from the forums message box do it in plain text format then paste it. Most symbols from word are counted as pics.

Neil :)

[BobL]

Q&D survey of kbs per post
DJstimber 62k/image
Carry Pine 56k/image
Cliff R 54k/image
Zenwood 51k/image
Me 45k/image
Chris 44k/image

I depends a bit on how many portrait shots you post because you can only post 600 pixels high but landscapes can be 800 pixels wide. Why is that? This makes all portrait shots smaller than lanscape shots. That's discrimination! Surely it should be based on image size rather than pixels ?

[Carry Pine]

The problem continues:

When I post a picture now (singular) I get the message that the sum of my attachments is 923.3 kb and the red line goes almost all the way across the page. I have deleted pictures in my attachments over the last 3 years but this has made no difference.

I resize all my pictures to the point where there is little detail when they are 'blown up'.

Other members don't seem to have a limit of pictures that they post and it is very difficult if I want to show work in progress with only one picture per post.

Hoping someone can help. I give any moderator permission to open my 'account' to see what the problem is.

Carry Pine

[DJ’s Timber]

CP, it sounds like your pictures are still to large, each picture must be under 100kb, the
923.3kb you're quoting sounds like it's for one picture. Also your previous attachments have no bearing on your uploads.

Can you give us a screenshot (press PrtScn on the right at the top of your keyboard and save as jpg in paint by opening edit in paint and clicking paste and then save under file) of the message your getting when you try to upload a picture.

Also what program are you using to reduced the size of your pictures?

[bitingmidge]

I was wondering about my quota:


You are currently using 35.79 MB to store 876 uploaded attachments.

The other thing that pings you, is that smileys :2tsup: are considered to be an image, in a post as well and there's a limit of 8(?) images per post I think.

Cheers,

P
:D

[Carry Pine]

Here goes, DJ's Timber....

Well pressing that button 'print screen' does (I won't say it) nothing. I tried saving the message as a Word document but like when i post pictures it says I'm over my limit by23KB. I even took the list of attachment types off and i was still over by 21KB.

the program i use to store photos is JASC paint Shp Photo album and I reduce my pictures down to 100 acroos now. In the old days i reduced them to 700 and they worked fine.

Will persevere in trying to send you the message I receive... and that is before I upload anything. its like 'You have exceeded your limit already - that's why i took the photos off my old posts.

Other people, please don't hijack the thread until I get this sorted. Thanks.

Graham

[DJ’s Timber]

After you have press PrtScn, you then need to open Paint and then follow the instructions I gave you above. Pressing PrtScn is the first step but nothing happens till you open Paint and the edit>paste

[Carry Pine]

Still trying.

I deleted nearly everything from the message you get when you try to upload photos.

i think I got it this time.

CP

[Wood Butcher]

Carry,

I've had a look but this is out of my domain. I'll make sure that those who might be able to help are aware of the problem.

Rowan - Wood Butcher
Administrator

[Carry Pine]

After you have press PrtScn, you then need to open Paint and then follow the instructions I gave you above. Pressing PrtScn is the first step but nothing happens till you open Paint and the edit>paste

When I press Print Screen and Open paint I don't have the option of using any of the edit facilities except on a picture that is displayed. I need to click on a picture and then I can do anything to it. Wherever that screen is printed- I don't know. If I knew where it was I would edit it.

Graham

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

When you open Paint, it should come up with a blank canvas.

All you have to do is either press CTRL-V or got to the Edit menu and select Paste to stick what PrtScr has already copied into the blank.

Make sense?

[Meanderland]

G'day,
Posting photos or images to Forums or Websites etc., isn't fully understood by the average "poster". Hence I hope these few pointers might be of help. Please understand that there is a big difference between image size (pixels width and pixels height) and file size (Kb). I do a lot of Website designing and use a free tool online to optimize images for viewing on websites. The following is a quote lifted from the page i'm about to direct you to where the free tool is:

"Image Optimization

The SiteReportCard Image Optimization tool is a free utility that compresses your GIF, JPEG, and PNG images. Decreasing the file size of your web images will increase the download speed of your web pages without affecting image quality!

Enter an image or graphic (GIF, JPG, PNG) that you would like to optimize and our software will compress and display the image at various sizes and levels of image quality." (end quote)

Most photos are in a resolution for hard copy printing yet image quality for screen viewing even on hi-res screen, needs only be at a small fraction of that without loosing quality.

Try it by going to the page, press Browse near the Upload File window is and you'll look where on your computer you have the file; select the file; and upload it. You wait a few minutes and it will come back with about 10 images exactly the same size but with varying quality. You pick which is the lowest file size that hasn't any noticeable deteriation. You select and save that one to your computer and this is what you use to put into your post here. :)

http://www.sitereportcard.com/imagereducer.php

Hope this helps out.
Regards,
Rick

[Carry Pine]

Another attempt:

Followed Skew ChiDAMN's steps but (for others who lack the expertise) my Paint program comes up with a paint promo and an offer to do the tour. Close this and you get the pictures on my desktop. No access to cut and paste. it was only when i closed this page that i was allowed to paste. See the results. Thanks Skew, it was worth persevering.

This is the message I now get BEFORE loading any image (whatever the size).

Graham

[DJ’s Timber]

Well done Graham, from looking at that, I reckon that something is wrong with your settings on the forums server. As Wood Butcher said yesterday, that part is out of our hands.

We need someone with higher access then we have, will bring it to their attention and try to get it sorted for you.

[jow104]

Carry Pine.

Go to www.corel.com and get a trial download of Paint Shop Pro 12. lasts one month.

It has an import tool, (screen capture)

I never have any problem posting pics from there, I use the export option after I have manipulated my photo and save it at "my pictures" to post to web etc.

Just went and had a look at Paint and if you are using the send command you most probably wont be able to post. I did a screen print command pasted at Paint and then used send and got a 1.56mb file at my email post option.

[Carry Pine]

[quote=jow104;661546]Carry Pine.

Go to www.corel.com (http://www.corel.com) and get a trial download of Paint Shop Pro 12. lasts one month.

Thanks, tried it. 325MB download. I only get 400 a month. Claimed it would take 1 hr 40 mins to download!

Graham

[Carry Pine]

I now get the red line right across the page. I can't post any pictures whatever the size. A moderator was looking into it for me.

Carry Pine

[Carry Pine]

Picture I get.

This is the message i get. I needed to really downsize it. I guess it is barely readable.

Carry Pine

[ubeaut]

Think I've found the problem. Try it now and see what happens.

Cheers - Neil :U

[Groggy]

Think I've found the problem.Chair leg sitting on the power cable Neil? :whistling2: :D