Problem uploading pics to gallery

Chrisrw

Chrisrw

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Help!:confused:
I started to upload a few pics to the Gallery and I've had this;

Processing. Please wait.
If your files are large, this could take some time.

loading4.gif


on my screen for about 2 hours so far


How long should it take?
How do I stop it and begin again?
 
It should be quick. Sometimes the site is inaccessible for a moment, or the internet itself is dodgy, or your ISP has a crisis, or your ADSL is 'shaped' because you gave your teenage children access to the internet. The limit is 400k and I think 1500 pixels wide. Could that have anything to do with it?
 
Thanks Richard. How do I make a smaller jpeg of my photos? I have some digital samples that are @ 2600X1600. I clearly haven't done this much, although I do recall posting some shots a while ago with no problems. The last attempt was just dragging and dropping. Hmmm.
 
What constitutes 'a day' in which I can post 5 photos to the Gallery.
At present I see 4 photos of mine posted in what the Gallery says is the last day's pictures. But I can't upload another photo. So when does a day begin and end?

jesse
 
Chris, on your first question, I just discovered that, while uploading to the gallery, if you fail to specify a file to upload, the green progress indicator will go on "forever". :eek: Also, if there's a temporary glitch in the internet things may be slow.

On your second question about resizing the photo, the "how" depends on the specific photo editing software you use. I output from Lightroom to a full-size TIFF as an intermediate step to various later uses. For uploading to the Gallery, I then open the TIFF in the Mac shareware program GraphicConverter where some additional tweaking/cropping can be done. The final steps here will use its "Scale" feature, where I specify Proportional Scaling and enter the desired long-side pixel dimension (1022 for me but the gallery allows 1500) and let the short side fall where it may from any cropping done. Then a little final sharpening (15%), add a 2-pixel black border, and Save-As a JPEG in my chosen output folder... Carefully avoiding saving over my original TIFF!

Here the GC program optionally brings up a final window where I can choose to keep the EXIF or discard it, etc, and a slider for JPEG compression amount. I slide the slider while watching the output filesize indicator to give me something within the Maximum File Size shown at the bottom of the Photo Upload Form (~390k, but I try to keep it around 225k or less). Despite that I avoid going below about 60% compression on the slider to prevent visible artifacts.

Is this helpful? Your image software should have similar features.

Edit: By the way, to prepare a photo to be your Avatar, the same procedure as above, with different file size limits: "The maximum size of your custom image is 150 by 191 pixels or 146.5 KB (whichever is smaller)" Mine is 125 x 125 which IIRC was a former limit.

Geez, look at that... "Join Date: Sep 2003" -- It's been 10 years!
 
jesse1dog said:
What constitutes 'a day' in which I can post 5 photos to the Gallery.
At present I see 4 photos of mine posted in what the Gallery says is the last day's pictures. But I can't upload another photo. So when does a day begin and end?

jesse
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Hi Jesse - I believe it's just a 24-hour interval since your last uploads. If you upload 4 at 11pm, then try to upload more than 1 two hours later at 1am the next calendar day, it would fail. But after 11pm that next day it should open up again.

This might be interesting to test... If you upload a photo each hour for 5 hours, then the gallery should open step-wise the next day at the same hours for 1 upload each hour.

I've been uploading two or three (rarely four) photos nearly every day, in the evenings at different times. And have not encountered the restriction. Maybe by chance... I'm catching up with SLR photos, as I previously had posted only RF pics until after RFF opened up more to other camera types. :) Should be done with that soon.
 
Aaahhhh ****

Aaahhhh ****

I need to upload more often.
I am trying to upload from Flickr.
Size set at 320x213 .
Copied HTML, Link and bbcode each.
Tried all three and get green bar screen and then it goes to my gallery but no added picture.
There are a total of 16 pictures in my gallery,is this too many?
Do I need to dump some to get more in?
AAAHHHH,ETC:bang:
 
If any of you work in LR, you can export jpgs at 390k max, 1800x2700 (2x3), roughly 100dpi, then upload them easily from drive or Dropbox. They're then easier to copy out into appropriate rff threads via EXIF/Url link.

Randolph, 16 ain't many. I have a few more than that. Like a hundred times more.
 
rhl-oregon said:
If any of you work in LR, you can export jpgs at 390k max, 1800x2700 (2x3), roughly 100dpi, then upload them easily from drive or Dropbox. They're then easier to copy out into appropriate rff threads via EXIF/Url link.

Randolph, 16 ain't many. I have a few more than that. Like a hundred times more.
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I have no problem posting in threads just in gallery.
I just got a copy of LR 5.7 from Craigslist 60$ new unopened.
So let the learning begin:)
Problem is I can't remember how I posted to my gallery.
Everything posted in my gallery is from Flickr account.
 
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