Problems uploading photos

[black]

I'm having problems uploading some photos this morning, its coming back with an error message file size too small, I always upload at 900x600 so this shouldn't be happening. Some of the photos its rejecting are in portrait so are actually 600x900 whereas others are landscape.

[Tormentil]

The rules have changed. All pics must be at least 800 wide.

[matt_xyz]

Originally Posted by black

I'm having problems uploading some photos this morning, its coming back with an error message file size too small, I always upload at 900x600 so this shouldn't be happening. Some of the photos its rejecting are in portrait so are actually 600x900 whereas others are landscape.

Tormentil is correct. We are trying to automate the process so that images that are too small are automatically rejected. Unfortunately the software cannot be set to ensure that either the height or the width is 800 pixels. As a result we have simply had to set the minimum width to be 800 pixels.

Matt

[black]

Thanks Matt, I'll resize them this week + re-submit to the Gallery

[colincurry]

I posted several pictures yesterday and received confirmatory emails saying that they had been accepted. However, I cannot find a yellowhammer or a barn owl included in the batch.

Perhaps the mod sent the wrong message but could someone explain what has gone on, please.

Thanks

Colin

[wilddawn]

I also tried uploading a portrait picture but couldn't, I played with it to get it to download but then got a message saying the quality wasn't good enough. The new rules make it very difficult to submit portrait photos, not all can be easily edited to make them landscape, it ruined the picture when I tried.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by black

I'm having problems uploading some photos this morning, its coming back with an error message file size too small, I always upload at 900x600 so this shouldn't be happening. Some of the photos its rejecting are in portrait so are actually 600x900 whereas others are landscape.

Portrait images need to be at least 800 wide by whatever length you choose. I have just cropped and uploaded this which has been accepted and moderated without any problem.

It was uploaded at 800x1000. Hope this helps.

[JennyS]

There seems to be a total lack of logic to the gallery process - couple days back I uploaded an image 600 x 396 px into the 'unidentified' gallery but today its shown up in the 'wildflowers' gallery.......presumably moved there by a gallery editor ......

But its way below the minimum size, and much smaller than images that other people are trying to upload there deliberately!!!

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by JennyS

There seems to be a total lack of logic to the gallery process - couple days back I uploaded an image 600 x 396 px into the 'unidentified' gallery but today its shown up in the 'wildflowers' gallery.......presumably moved there by a gallery editor ......

But its way below the minimum size, and much smaller than images that other people are trying to upload there deliberately!!!

originally the minimum and maxiumum sizes applied to the un id'd gallery as well but stu took them off because people were moaning about that.

it seems that this is one of the cases where admin can't win, whatever they do people complain,

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by JennyS

There seems to be a total lack of logic to the gallery process - couple days back I uploaded an image 600 x 396 px into the 'unidentified' gallery but today its shown up in the 'wildflowers' gallery.......presumably moved there by a gallery editor ......

But its way below the minimum size, and much smaller than images that other people are trying to upload there deliberately!!!

I'm not sure how it got over to the wild flower gallery. I've now moved it back into unidentified, because, as you say, it's way too small for the main gallery. Is that more logical for you?

[wilddawn]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Portrait images need to be at least 800 wide by whatever length you choose. I have just cropped and uploaded this which has been accepted and moderated without any problem.

It was uploaded at 800x1000. Hope this helps.

I tried this at the time but got a message saying the file was too big, I spent over 20 mins trying to get it to download, it then got rejected by the mods

[JennyS]

you probably need to web optimise it - that will make the file size smaller (Different from pixel size)

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by wilddawn

I tried this at the time but got a message saying the file was too big, I spent over 20 mins trying to get it to download, it then got rejected by the mods

yep - it needs to be under 500kb - pref under 250kb - I would imagine that if its being rejected for size it is over this probably due to either its ppi or its compression / quality setting.

for wab I normally resize to 800 wide , at 72ppi then resave the file with a different file name (to avoid overwriting the original) and save at a quality setting of no more than 7 (ie medium). I am using photoshop but the settings are broadly similar in other photo editing software

[Reptilian]

I had a confirmation this morning saying my picture had been accepted. However when i click the link it says "Hi Reptilian, unfortunately you do not have permission to access this page. " and gives reasons but none apply to me. It hasn't appeared in my gallery either.

Any ideas?

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by Reptilian

I had a confirmation this morning saying my picture had been accepted. However when i click the link it says "Hi Reptilian, unfortunately you do not have permission to access this page. " and gives reasons but none apply to me. It hasn't appeared in my gallery either.

Any ideas?

It was originally accepted, then realised it shouldn't have been, so it was removed. Let me think if I can see the reason, was it a UK bird, or a rare African one?? Not on the BOU list I'm afraid.

I'm tiring of these public questioning of editing decisions.

If any of you want to know why images were rejected, contact one of the editors by PM.


I'm now closing this thread.