TUTORIAL: Resize images so you can upload them

There is a known forum glitch that results in an error message when uploading an image. This tutorial provides an easy workaround.

Please note that while *I* use F-Stop Gallery Pro for this task, any good image editing app should have similar functions.

The idea is to resize your image, down, until its size pleases the AF gods.

Let's begin:

1) install an image editing app if you don't already have one

2) fire it up:



3) open the image AF bombed out on:



4) find your app's 'edit' or 'resize' [or similar] option:



5) using F-Stop Pro, after pressing 'edit,' you're presented with the image editor; do nothing! Just press the 'save' [disk] icon at the top:



6) note the image's dimensions; they're too big! That's why AF spit out its error message:



Now use the slider to reduce them:



7) you're done, unless you want to change anything else shown; press 'OK'

8) you're now sitting on the original image; F-SP does not touch the original at all--it creates a copy; if you browse your files now, you'll see two of the images:



The original's name is unchanged:



The edited version's name will have "~(1)" appended to it:



You can leave that as is or rename it; it makes no difference as far as AF is concerned.

Note that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no magic size. One file may have big dimensions, but a small file size, another, small dimensions but a larger file size, and either or both can be accepted or rejected.

If you're in the mood to experiment, start by resizing it down a little, try uploading it, if it fails, resize it a little more, and so on. Personally, I just scale them all down to ≈1,000 pixels for their max height or width, and that always works.

Feel free to ask questions!

 

There, I fixed that for you!

Thanks. Glad to do it.