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Stupid question perhaps but when I open a photo say in the Classifieds it is ginormous (huge). Is there a setting somewhere that tames this down?

Could you please provide a link to a post with a pic like you are talking about?

I need to see if the pic is linked (can't control the size of those) or in the post with tags.

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After a crazy amount of digging, I found that an uploaded file's size is controlled within the server's PHP configuration.

So I dropped the max file upload size from 8 MB to 1 MB.

Hopefully that might encourage folks to learn how to scale down files before uploading them.

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  • 2 months later...

Forum members really, really need to reduce the size of their photo images before launching them here. It's just too much of a load on the system and on viewers with some screen-size considerations or those who just appreciate a bit of polite consistency in size on screen.

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FYI: There are two size considerations. The file size and the photo size.

Brian has set the file size to 1MB but in theory you could post a huge picture that still used less than 1Mb (depending on the degree of compression in the JPG)

For Windows: Members can use the PAINT application to shrink both the file size and photo size.

For Mac: Use the PREVIEW application to shrink both the file size and photo size.

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I've always figured that somewhere between 640-800 pixels in the long dimension (wide for horizontals, tall for verticals) by what ever looks good, as far as a crop is concerned is big enough. If you're photographing a rifle or shotgun, the picture might be 800 x200 -- because mostly you don't really need a 400 pixels of floor or background...

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