Discussion: FR: Image max size 20 mb

FR: Image max size 20 mb

Hi! Would easier if one could upload up to 25 mb photo. My every other photo is bigger than 10 mb and it is hazzle to resize them just for uploading here. I do not need such small files anywhere else.

I have the same problem :-( It would be fine if the server reduces the resolution to reduce the file size. Now I have to do that myself.

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+1 I frequently need to resize or crop photos to stay within the 10MB

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Compressing is better than resizing - you do not sacrifice resolution https://www.iloveimg.com/compress-image/compress-jpg

I also always need to reduce the file size but doing it yourself at least you control where you make sacrifices. Depending on what the picture is for maybe you sometimes want resolution, sometimes less compression? I guess an auto-downsize would be nice at least as a fallback.

Apart from that 10Mb max seems very reasonable to me given that the servers also need to be able to handle all of the traffic these images create. Have the admins ever looked at supporting e.g. webm? (maybe it already works? I never tried )

I also have a resizer and compressor as a standalone single tool. If someone is interested, let me know. Can do entire folders without effort with it.

To the developers of the website I may suggest using some form of client side image compression, that way you don't have to spend money on something like a server side compression thing.

https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs might be the lowest hanging fruit

I have been using Image Resizer Powertoy Clone, as easy as a right click on a picture, to resize.

Danny van Bruggen Totally agree. Make versions ever needed (web dev now what it is) and discard the orginal right after.

Bakó Ádám IMO not true. I prefer enough resolution with less compression instead of very high resolution with too much compression, as too much compression destroys the details and brings up the artefacts --> having that higher resolution does not bring any benefits if compression is too high.

Bowline Dandy Fantastic tip!

In Windows I just right click the image (a copy of the image if I want to keep that photo). Select Edit so it opens the Paint application. Save without changing anything, Paint will already reduce the image file size

Half our images are used for topos. It is our policy to store the original and use the minimum size for purpose. Depending on what it is being used for the minimum size varies. This policy is not going to change for topos, and it is not worth dev time to have a mixed solution for photos. Besides photos can be converted to topos.

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20mb is plenty. That's almost enough for a 20 megapixel RAW!

A good quality, 4K res, compressed image should be around 5 MB.

That's true, but today's cell phones take huge photos by default, and then users don't know how to reduce them. Therefore, it would be best if thecrag.com reduced them to the optimal size regardless of the size of the original.