Hot Rods Posting photos

Anyone else having problems posting photos from their phone? I've never had a problem until this week. Says the file is too big. I have an I-phone....

 

When I got my new I-phone recently, it takes pics that are too large of a file. They were fine with my last phone. I need to figure out how to set it to take worse pics. Right now, I have been emailing them to myself as smaller files before posting.

 

NOOOO... your Apple Iphone is one of the best for quick photos. The quality of the photos are almost the same as a larger 35mm size digital camera. So, continue to take the photos. My wife's Iphone has some great photos. But, there are always ways to adjust the photos for composition and clarity.

Here is a post I did earlier this year in the OT section.

Hello,

The simple thing to do is to use your home computer or laptop. But, most folks take photos these days with their phones. Why? Well, they fit in your pocket and are always with you, wherever you go. Mostly…

But, the limiting thing is the size of the phone screen. As little as it is, it has gotten better in a somewhat clearer photo screen. Although, it is very tiny compared to a 30 inch desktop monitor or a 17 inch laptop screen.

So, yes, the phone photos have gotten a lot better in quality and the telephoto zoom has improved, too. It is more advanced than earlier phone versions, whether an Apple phone or an Android phone. So, yes, do take photos, but try to compose the photo first, whether it is on zoom or normal view. The normal view is hindered due to the dinky screen. The zoom version is usually too large due to the screen size limitations.

Now, once you take a photo, save it to your home computer or roving laptop. Yes, the phone has the modifications to re-size, change some things and make some cuckoo additions, etc. But, you are working with a dinky screen and unless you enlarge the whole photo for clarity, bad background errors, gnats or such on the photo, will be there when you print or post.

Jnaki

The whole thing about phones is they are handy for emergencies, as a phone. Not for whipping them out at the instant a car wreck or a gathering protest on a corner is happening. Due to the small screen, more modifications and adjustments are too small to see unless enlarged to a big photo. But, now, the whole surrounding photo effects are out of the main photo. A nice sunset or a wave breaking behind a hot rod parked on the sand at the beach… etc.

Here is still, IMHO, the best way to see your photos on a larger screen, with full adjustments made as to clarity and composition. If one takes a couple of photos of a hot rod, one will have less background “noise” such as a peering visitor or a tree sticking out of the hot rod roof. Now, you can also see the "blems" and adjust accordingly on a larger screen at home.

The main emphasis from an old story:

So, for those that copy internet or any website photos, then post with full image directions, may be over sizing the photo and will become blurry. Take a minute and get some clarity. YRMV

It won’t take but a few minutes to open the saved photo copied to your files and make the photo program work, to lessen the intrusion on the hot rod photo. The larger it is, the more grain comes to light…

Note:

If one copies a photo and pastes it on a Word Do***ent, you can then adjust the size to fit your post. Then, if it is not very clear, use your photo program to make things clear as they should be for good photos.

Insert your adjusted photo in this space:

If it is too large, then you will have to use your home computer or laptop to adjust the size to fit. It is a simple process.

Composition is the key to a good photo…

nothing lost and everyone will know the emphasis of the photo taken.

If it is too large, then delete and make your adjustments to fit the box without going overboard with a fuzzy photos. They are photographs and aren’t going anywhere, so take your time to get clear photos to post.

The Microsoft Paint program allows you to adjust the actual photo to see how much is needed to make it fit the whole page section. Microsoft Word also allows you to adjust photos on the screen to get larger or smaller. But, watch out, both will move to make a new photo if your mouse is dragging the wrong way.

Microsoft paint adjustments. The red arrow to resize to any overall shape. The blue arrow with the blue “Cut” tab selected to actually cut down the unnecessary size of the overall photo. Now, it fits fine...

I have some old 35mm color slides from the "film" days. If I were to copy and paste the complete color slide, it will be too large for any post or thread. So, as they are now digital editions, it is simple to adjust them for better color, clarity and size. YRMV

 

I am having issues with my I-pad mostly screen shots but not my desk computer.

Maybe @Ryan @corncobcoupe @Moriarity know where the problem lies.

 

My iPhone asks if I want thumbnail or full image. I always choose full image. On some sites I have run into that , and I believe that the Ford Barn is one. I’m given the choice of actual,large, medium, or small. When I get that I usually choose large and everything works? This is what I get with “full image”

 

I saved this image and opened it on my desktop in Paint, this is what it tells me about it's size:



From my limited understanding of iPhones and all things Apple, they really try hard to make it impossible to get useful information about any files on their systems. In the world of Windows and Android, this information is more available, because we have to know this stuff to make things work. But even Android has gone this way, the camera app on my phone only lets me choose the aspect ratio of images that I want to take, it doesn't give me a choice of pixel size.

As corncobcoupe suggested, perhaps there is a way to save the file "smaller". Or as guthriesmith suggested, perhaps the OP can change camera settings to reduce the file size of images that the camera takes.

Another approach that some folks use is to take a screen shot of the image being displayed on the phone, then saving that screen shot, and posting it. This usually gives a large border, and other stuff shows up on the image that we don't want to see, so it would be appropriate to "edit" the screen shot, to crop off the stuff that's not desired.

Although cropping is another way to reduce file size, especially if you don't frame the shot well with the phone's camera when you take it (which is the case with 98% of the photos I see of car stuff taken with phones)

 

^^^^^ Good info.
One thing I'd add is that if you resize a digital photo, save that smaller image as a separate file. Keep your original photos on a storage device separate from your phone. Make changes to a copy of the photo and not to the original photo file. Every time you change and re-save a digital JPG photo file, quality is lost. That's why you see so many older online photos with the little T's and L's and strange little lines in them. "Digital artifacts" from being saved and re-saved too many times.
Sounds complicated but it's just a matter of learning how and why. You guys can rebuild an engine or a trans with your eyes closed. It ain't too tough to punch a few ****ons!
And we sure do appreciate it when you do the work of posting those photos here!

 

Most camera phones I've seen have a "settings" menu screen that allows you to adjust how the camera takes and stores your image files. The image size (pixel dimensions and file size) are likely where you're running into a problem. That being said, most newer phones and stand alone cameras have the capability of shooting at stupidly large (20 to 30 mega pixels or more) image and file sizes. If you need to make larger prints, like 16" x 20" or 24" x 30" from your shots it's handy to have these big-*** images. It allows you to crop and rotate images to your liking with little or no loss of image quality.

But we're talking about web display and email attachments here, not prints. And most laptops and desktops only require a much smaller image size to fill the monitor. Smart phones and tablets require even less. An image size of 1600 x 1200 pixels (1.92 mega pixels) is generally sufficient for web usage. Multiply your pixel height and width dimensions to determine the MP size. In your camera's menus find and select a setting of 1600 x 1200 or around 2 MP.

Your images will be a fraction of their original hu****ous size. You'll be able to store more images in less space in your camera's memory. They'll be a better size for email and text message attachments and will upload and display more quickly to the web. (As an added bonus they will also take up less space on Ryan's servers if you're hosting your pictures here.) And they will transfer in a flash to your desktop or laptop if so desired.

Your phone or camera settings menu may also have a setting for saving JPEG files with various degrees of compression to make smaller file sizes. All JPEG files are saved with at least some small degree of compression; it's just how the JPEG file format works. More compression makes for smaller file sizes but introduces some variable degree of image degradation. This is not usually a concern if you're not printing the file but you're usually better off saving JPEGs at one of the higher quality (or lower compression) settings.

If you decide to shoot at these smaller image sizes you will find that your camera stores the images quicker, your memory will hold more pictures, they will upload to the web faster and display more quickly when someone opens a web page. Sounds like a win, win, win, win to me!