HeroJay Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 Help! Is there any rules (size of pcture) for uploading pictures to the cache report? I reported a find, I went back and tried to upload a picture but I keep getting the the "refresh" white page. I've tried from 2 different computers.. Any ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment
+yrium Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by HeroJay: Is there any rules (size of pcture) for uploading pictures to the cache report? HeroJay, Yep, there is a 100K limit on the size. Any bigger and its disallowed. --- yrium --- Quote Link to comment
HeroJay Posted March 27, 2002 Author Share Posted March 27, 2002 I've saved my digital pic with the lowest setting available and still it is over 6 Meg! If I shrink it to about 120th of it's size I get it down but then you can't see it... Obviously doing something wrong. Quote Link to comment
+TheBeans Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 If you have a graphics program, import the photo there and resize it. With my program, I resize it to 500 pixels by 395 pixels and it works like a charm. Quote Link to comment
dbpx3 Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 I use a free program called Easy Thumbnails to create the smaller pictures needed for upload to the GC site. You can get the program at the link below: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/ Great program and very easy to use! You can make the size adjustments on the fly and it will show what the final size of the file will be before you actually have it make the thumbnail. Good luck! DBPX3 Quote Link to comment
dbpx3 Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 I use a free program called Easy Thumbnails to create the smaller pictures needed for upload to the GC site. You can get the program at the link below: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/ Great program and very easy to use! You can make the size adjustments on the fly and it will show what the final size of the file will be before you actually have it make the thumbnail. Good luck! DBPX3 Quote Link to comment
+rdw Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 Make sure you crop unnecessary parts of the photo, then save it as a low quality JPEG. It sounds like you're saving it in TIFF or BMP format. A 6 meg JPEG would have to be VERY large pixelwise. I have a 2.1 MPxl digi-cam. I import it to Photoshop, cut the image size in half by resizing, crop out what is not necessary, and save it as a low quality JPEG. Even for large pics, it is usually 70kb or below but still looks decent. rdw Quote Link to comment
zapped Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 HeroJay - you're probably overwhelmed with the responses, but I thought I'd add in my specific recipe (above). Pictures off my Canon S-20 camera are 2048x1536 pixel JPGs and about 2.2MB in size. In my software of choice (ACDSee) I resize to 640x480 and then do a "Save As" to a new filename, to preserve my original shot. When I "Save As", there's an "Options" button where I can slide a lever to choose the quality in percent. I use "75%", but on some software the slide is just labelled with "High quality", "Medium quality" etc. 75% is about medium, I think. The resulting picture size varies from 75KB to 98KB for me, dependent on the amount of image detail in the shot. I also experimented with a conversion to 256-shade greyscale, but that only saved 3-4KB in the JPG filesize when I tried it. It's possibly to compress an 800x600 and get it under 100KB, but it looks worse than a crisper 640x480 at higher quality settings. I also found that uploading is NOT reliable using Netscape 4.7, so I switch to Internet Explorer for this task Good luck & happy uploading! Quote Link to comment
zapped Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 HeroJay - you're probably overwhelmed with the responses, but I thought I'd add in my specific recipe (above). Pictures off my Canon S-20 camera are 2048x1536 pixel JPGs and about 2.2MB in size. In my software of choice (ACDSee) I resize to 640x480 and then do a "Save As" to a new filename, to preserve my original shot. When I "Save As", there's an "Options" button where I can slide a lever to choose the quality in percent. I use "75%", but on some software the slide is just labelled with "High quality", "Medium quality" etc. 75% is about medium, I think. The resulting picture size varies from 75KB to 98KB for me, dependent on the amount of image detail in the shot. I also experimented with a conversion to 256-shade greyscale, but that only saved 3-4KB in the JPG filesize when I tried it. It's possibly to compress an 800x600 and get it under 100KB, but it looks worse than a crisper 640x480 at higher quality settings. I also found that uploading is NOT reliable using Netscape 4.7, so I switch to Internet Explorer for this task Good luck & happy uploading! Quote Link to comment
HeroJay Posted March 28, 2002 Author Share Posted March 28, 2002 I got the picture to 88K - thanks! BUT...when I view the picture on the website the resolution is horrible. Please check it. The picture site is: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=30188&L=251374 If that doesn't work the website of the cache is: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=6921 The log date is 3/25/02 - HEROJAY Sorry to keep this thread running but geeesh! I'd like to post the pic... Thanks for your continued assistance. Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 quote:Originally posted by HeroJay: I got the picture to 88K - thanks! BUT...when I view the picture on the website the resolution is horrible. Uhm.. It looks fine to me I've noticed that when you first upload a picture, it looks horrible. But, if you go and look at it later, it's fine... Strange but true, for me anyway -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45° 30.ish W 122° 58.ish Quote Link to comment
+fractal Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 quote:Originally posted by HeroJay: I got the picture to 88K - thanks! BUT...when I view the picture on the website the resolution is horrible. Uhm.. It looks fine to me I've noticed that when you first upload a picture, it looks horrible. But, if you go and look at it later, it's fine... Strange but true, for me anyway -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45° 30.ish W 122° 58.ish Quote Link to comment
+Geo Leo Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 I've noticed the same thing. When the picture appears on your screen for the first time, it looks terrible. Click on the picture, or come back to it, and it will look fine. The picture in the link looked very good to me. Quote Link to comment
HeroJay Posted March 28, 2002 Author Share Posted March 28, 2002 Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment
K.C.&Kids Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 I have read the replies and reduced it to 500k, It uploads until it's half way done then I get a page not found [:{] error message. Is the site having trouble??? Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 quote:Originally posted by HeroJay: Please check it. The picture site is: Uh... HJ, do we have another redhead geocacher out there? Jamie Quote Link to comment
RedShoesGirl Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Kmunshower: I have read the replies and reduced it to 500k, It uploads until it's half way done then I get a page not found [:{] error message. Is the site having trouble??? Any suggestions? 500k is still WAY too big, the pics have to be under 100k. No problems then uploading. Quote Link to comment
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