How in the heck do we share images?

[DreamBliss]

I am a little frustrated right now. I can't attach an image because it is too large (1.1 meg in size, but 1000x1000 pixels.) I also can't upload it to Flikr or my Dropbox account, I get an error saying I can't share an image of that extension with the community. So how do I share an image here? What are the maximum dimensions allowed? What extensions or websites are acceptable, if any, for uploading and direct linking?

 

Thank you for your time.

[DreamBliss]

UPDATE

OK, so I uploaded it to my blog and that link appears to be working. Why not Dropbox or Flikr?

[Brian]

What is the file type?

[DreamBliss]

I tried .jpg and .png, 1.1 meg in size, 1000x1000 pixels in dimension.

[thelerner]

I have trouble with that too.  Can you point us to the guidelines?

[Marblehead]

A couple of pointers:

 

You can "crop" the image to make it smaller - that will make the file size smaller.

 

You can reduce the resolution of the image, say from 1000 x 1000 to 800 x 800 and this too will make the file size smaller.

[dawei]

Here is the supported file types: gif,jpeg,jpg,png

 

The maximum size is:  1200 x 1600.  The system will supposedly resize if greater than this... but there is another setting suggesting it will automatically resize to a value if given (it is given as 620).

 

I thought there was a maximum storage size but can't find that now.

 

I will say that each member has a maximum allotment (file space reserved for each) and that alone would make me recommend to folks to try and link to a picture rather than upload one.

 

if one wants to upload it, then as Marblehead suggests, do a few techniques to try and get a reasonable size first.

[Marblehead]

I will say that each member has a maximum allotment (file space reserved for each) and that alone would make me recommend to folks to try and link to a picture rather than upload one.

Yep, I have had to remove a lot of stuff I uploaded because I ran out of space.

[Brian]

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I thought there was a maximum storage size but can't find that now.

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I hadn't responded because I wanted to find where we had determined the actual maximum file size for upload but I haven't had a chance to look. I know it is less than the posted max, though.

 

I would second dawei's recommendation to link to an image on another site when possible.

[Stosh]

I have similar issues with this sizing issue on another site,  1000 pixels along the horizontal is still a pretty big pic for insertion into these posting boxes though. as Mh suggested , maybe 800 or 600 on the horizontal will fit without resizing further. the file size will probably  be somewhere less than a megabyte even minimally compressed as JPEG . PNG is falling out of use as a standard compression and I wouldn't use it (or store anything in png.) , I dont think PNG worked on flickr last time I tried it, they really work best with plain JPEG , and really do a nice job handling any size of it.