Uploading photos

[rutlandwarrior]

Tried twice today to post photos of my bike but get message cannot save attachment please advise

[MartinW]

There are three errors showing in the forum Logs. What is the filesize of your picture?

[rutlandwarrior]

Average pic is 3.5mb

[MartinW]

The forum resizes pictures down to a specific size, but I don't think it can handle 3.5MB in the first place. Try shrinking/cropping and see if you still have a problem.

[Barbel Mick]

@ rutlandwarrior, your photo file at 3.5mb will be too big to download you will need to make the file smaller. Not sure what the upper limit for size is but I go under 200kb and most I post will be around  140 - 170kb.
If you haven't got a programme to do it I use this (recomended by forum member  ) 'faststone photo resizer' and it is very easy to use and very quick. Don't forget to take a copy if you want to keep the original!!!!
http://www.faststone.org/

If you want to upload the original file then use something like Flickr, it's a bit more messing but not too difficult.

[mr_diver]

I was trying to upload from my phone direct but the file sizes were too large.
I let my phone sync with Google Photos and upload from there.
Works every time.

[Joe Rocket]

We'll all use your phone then mr_diver........ 

If you can load it onto a PC you can modify it easily, not sure that 'phones' are the best for that.......

[rutlandwarrior]

Managed to download a resizing app on to tablet so going to try that, thanks for everyones help