Photograph file size

[Ali Smith]

On Monday I added a reply to my French Collection thread. When I came to add the last photo I was informed it was too large and should be less than 976.56kB. I reduced the file size and all was well.
 
Today I attempted to add another reply and was told that another photo was bigger than 976.56kB, which it was, just. I reduced it to 874kB and it is still being rejected for being larger than 976.56kB.

I hadn't heard of this restriction before (I usually post at between 1 and 2MB) but I can live with it if it would only recognise when an image is smaller than the limit.

I am loading photos straight from my computer rather than using my gallery on the Forum.

Am I doing something wrong (I've uploaded loads of photos in the past without difficulty) or is there something wrong with the Forum?
 

[Fardap]

I recently also had this issue, some photos loaded others were rejected but the same initial size.

What I have also seen looking at sizes in My Gallery is if I upload a photo and then edit it within the forum gallery (rotate it for instance) then the resulting file might be Mb in size and not under 1Mb as it was - so all a bit odd to say the least.

At one point I was doing a 'bulk upload' of 4 images and one it wouldn't take as 'too large' yet was similar size to the others - even tried doing in pairs in case it was a 'total' for the 4 images but same issue.

No idea why.

[Newportnobby]

I always used to have the same issues but, since using Windows 10, all my pics open with the option to resize and I tend to halve the pixels which gives the forum no problems any more.
Reducing the pic by a percentage does not have the desired effect.

[Ali Smith]

Tried again today.
 


This picture, which I've posted before, and is 1.66MB posted no trouble, but others which are smaller than 976.56kB won't.

[ntpntpntp]

There used to be a problem where the forum uploader was picky about the pixel dimensions too.  Not sure if that is still the case.

Looking at my uploaded images in the gallery they tend to be 200Kb - 700Kb.  Certainly nothing anywhere near 1Mb.  I think it's a good idea not to swamp the forum server with large files plus they slow down the page load.

[Ali Smith]

I've managed to make another post with several photos mostly around 500kB, but some above 1MB. There are two pictures that the system repeatedly refuses to accept even when reduced to around 500kB.