[Sabrina]

How long should it typically take? I am trying to upload a photo but after an hour of showing me that it is still processing, I gave up. The photo size is 3MB which is within the allowed size.

[pachyderm]

Originally Posted by Sabrina

The photo size is 3MB which is within the allowed size.

Eeeek eeeek eeeek!

I process mine so they are on the order of 60KB or so before uploading them.

[FooZe]

Where are you trying to upload it to? I wanted to look at the rules and instructions and see if they threw any light on the subject. I don't see any albums listed at your profile but maybe an album doesn't officially exist until you have one or more pictures in it.

I use a dialup connection so pictures take a while to load and I have to be selective about which ones I pick to look at. I can hardly imagine something that would tempt me to wait for a 3MB monster to load unless I was about to go cook dinner and expected the picture to be there waiting for me when I got back.

Sometimes when my connection is slower than usual or a site is unusually busy (with users or housekeeping), it's hard to get any large file to load completely, whether it's a video clip, a big still picture, a .PDF, or an update for an application.

I'm with pachy on this one -- by all means, reduce the file size of your picture.

[Sabrina]

I have never created an album, but I have several photos under my name in the photo section. (That I have not had problems uploading even though they were similar file sizes).

This is the size of the photo as it comes off my digital camera. Drives me nuts that the file size has to be so huge as I am even now battling to email pictures.

Ok, so it is probably the file size that is causing an issue. I will try to resize the photo. Unfortunately, this also changes the quality but beggars can't be choosers.

[FooZe]

Originally Posted by Sabrina

... I will try to resize the photo. Unfortunately, this also changes the quality...

The pictures that come directly from my digital cameras are huge -- something like 45 inches by 34 at a resolution of 72 dpi. If I reduce them to 12 by 9, they fit reasonably well on the screen (at 72 dpi) and still look good but the files are about 1/15 as big.

As far as I can remember, if I PM a 12 x 9 image it stays somewhere around that size but if I view it in my album or post it to a Social Group, something (I don't know if it's my browser or PC) insists on resizing it considerably smaller than that as soon it displays completely. When I've wanted to see an image in its original size I've been known to freeze it by clicking the Stop button when about 95% of the image is displayed. So far I've been lucky; the details I've most wanted to see haven't been in the bottom 5% of the picture.

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I trust that people outside the US are still on speaking terms with inches (2.54 cm) so I can get away with not translating all this into metric units.

[Sabrina]

I resized and had no problems uploading. Should have done that in the first place!