Old Forum Issue Reports

[Anselm Hauke]

hi tim,
the file is a 1,2 mb jpg, i tried it several times since yesterday evening (GMT).

don´t know if i made something wrong.

[Tim Bishop]

Anselm,

Try using Photobucket as your photo managing site. You'll need to register (it's easy) and then try again using Photobucket to deliver your photo's. Here is the site address: http://photobucket.com/

Also, if you have not read through Mikes Thread "Posting Pics Tutorial" on "Welcome To Smith Bass Forums", you might want to visit that. Mike provided some comprehensive instructions related to this topic.

Tim B.

[Anselm Hauke]

tim,
thank you for all the information, but i just tried to post the pic the same way i did this successful many times (here and at talkbass) before, so i think the problem may be a software problem, not a "human"- problem
i´ll try the solution that worked well for me often before with computer-problems: wait one day, and try it again...

[Tim Bishop]

Well, I just uploaded a few files successfully. So, I'm not sure why you would be having a problem with this.

If you would like, I would be happy to walk through this with you over the phone. Let me know.

[Anselm Hauke]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

If you would like, I would be happy to walk through this with you over the phone. Let me know.

well, from texas to germany?
ok, if you call me...

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Anselm Hauke

well, from texas to germany?
ok, if you call me...

Yikes, didn't think of that! Maybe we could IM?

[Mike Smith]

Thanks for the feedback, Anselm Hauke, your not the only guy with that issue. Not sure exactly why some people get these messages and why some don't right now. I do not think it has anything to do with other server things going on, even though it is a server error... I think it may be some incompatibilities with some people's .jpg's and the forum software possibly.. I'm still researching this...

[Anselm Hauke]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

Anselm,

Try using Photobucket as your photo managing site. You'll need to register (it's easy) and then try again using Photobucket to deliver your photo's. Here is the site address: http://photobucket.com/

that´s something i wanted to do anyhow. i´ll try to find some picture-hosting-site in german language

[Matthew Tucker]

Originally Posted by Anselm Hauke

hi tim,
the file is a 1,2 mb jpg, i tried it several times since yesterday evening (GMT).
don´t know if i made something wrong.

1,2Mb is pretty big for a jpeg upload in most cases.

try resizing your image to 600x800 and save at 75% jpg quality

that should bring it down to a manageable 100k or so ...

[Anselm Hauke]

hi matthew,

thanks for your suggestion.
i don´t think filesize is the problem. 5MB is max. allowed, and i posted bigger ones then the 1,2mb pic.
but i will try to reduce it.

[Matthew Tucker]

the point is, for display on a screen, even 500k is big. 5mb is huge and unnecessary. All the pics on my site are around 75k in size, and unless you need the high resolution it just slows things right down, particularly uploading. Anything can happen in the midde of a big upload.

[Anselm Hauke]

...yes, but: i think in most cases thats ok but i wanted to post big pics in a thread (called: auguste sebastian bernadel; its in the old french sub-forum)
where its important to see as many details as possible. i think its better to judge a bass of disputable origin (if this is possible at all in an internetforum...) if the pics shown are really hi-res.

[Bob Faulkner]

Originally Posted by Anselm Hauke

...yes, but: i think in most cases thats ok but i wanted to post big pics in a thread (called: auguste sebastian bernadel; its in the old french sub-forum)
where its important to see as many details as possible. i think its better to judge a bass of disputable origin (if this is possible at all in an internetforum...) if the pics shown are really hi-res.

I was ready to come to your defense on this one as the texture of the woods and other fine details are lost when you scale down a photo to a lower resolution. In this kind of environment I want to see the details, and large files are the only way to get it.

[Matthew Tucker]

compare these two. same size, different compression. One is 530k and the other is 66k. Not a LOT of difference IMO. You couldn't say image 1 is ten times as good as image 2. And image 2 uploads and downloads in a flash ...