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This is a discussion on File size limits for uploading photos for critiques within the Critiques forums, part of the Photography & Fine art photography category; It's explained in more detail here, but the short answer is 200k for .jpg and .gif http://www.photography.ca/Forums/showthread.php?t=9...

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    Default File size limits for uploading photos for critiques

    It's explained in more detail here, but the short answer is 200k for .jpg and .gif

    Filesize limits on this forum - upped to 325K - Need to resize your pictures?
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    Default Problem with file size limit

    The size limit of 100K is a problem because considerable compression is needed to get down to that size. Some of my originals average 30 meg.

    The results of compression to 100K are pixellation, artifacts, picture noise, and compression of the histogram affecting shadow colours and detail and or midtones. Even highlights that have detail in the original can be washed out in the compression process. Sharpness can also deteriorate and banding can appear through loss of tones in the small jpeg image.

    If the server can handle 16 bit jpegs (some editors will produce them) or other 16 bit formats it would help. At the same time, critiquing an image becomes less valuable if the uploaded image due to compression is considerably different from the original.

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    Default size limits

    Quote Originally Posted by marko
    It's explained in more detail here, but the short answer is 100k for .jpg and .gif

    Filesize limits on this forum - upped to 325K - Need to resize your pictures?
    Perhaps I should not even ask this, but why do some of the photos that I have looked at here not meet the size limit.

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    Perhaps I should not even ask this, but why do some of the photos that I have looked at here not meet the size limit.

    Tegan
    Can you point me to those photos Tegan?

    Thx

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    Mine were too big so I slacked them off to meet the limits. I hadn't noticed the file size requirements before. My question is, If I'm hosting the files on my site, what does it matter what size they are? Just wondering


    Never mind...I just read the sticky link.
    Last edited by Michaelaw; 02-14-2007 at 12:11 PM.

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    how do u compress a file that is almost 10meg to 100k

    photoshop?? or wut should i use

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    I have a remote site to host my photos but the HTML on this forum is turned off so my img insert links do not work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beetle8 View Post
    I have a remote site to host my photos but the HTML on this forum is turned off so my img insert links do not work.
    UBB code is enabled, so it should simply be a matter of inserting [ img] and [/img ] around the pathname.
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    I've probably missed the obvious, but do these image size limits not apply when inserting an image from, e.g., flickr ? Also, what are the max dimensions (width and height) I should be using when linking from flickr ?
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    These restrictions do not apply when inserting a flickr image.

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