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Uploading 3 pictures for 2 hours?
- Thread starter Bloom
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make sure u resize before upload
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Iron_Lion
I have had to resize my pics to 680p and load them one at a time to get them to work.
Even when I resize I cant get upload multiple pics at once. It's a real pain in the ass when uploading a lot of pics for grow logs.
Even when I resize I cant get upload multiple pics at once. It's a real pain in the ass when uploading a lot of pics for grow logs.
i have been having the same prob... had to start doing one pic at a time...
BlackOpsJesus
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Damn, the site is REALLY running herky jerky lately and it's not my PM box or excess pc baggage, that's for damned sure.
WTF
WTF
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Iron_Lion
no more then 5 smilies per post either 
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You should be editing your images B4 uploading to icmag. Max size for most ppl is 150K image size.
If it's taking too long, then you're probably uploading images in the 2-8 megabyte range. Then the server must resize your image, taking even more time, and slowing down our server for everyone else.
It's totally up to YOU how fast your images get uploaded. Make 'em the right size and it will upload in a few seconds.
Again this is not image shack. Don't upload EVERY image you took, just the BEST ONES.
Think before you upload, or you're gonna wait a long time, unnecessarily.
And if you're going to edit your images in photoshop or whatever, you might want to include a copyright notice on the image.
We don't do that here automatically, so it's up to you to protect your images with a copyright notice.
If it's taking too long, then you're probably uploading images in the 2-8 megabyte range. Then the server must resize your image, taking even more time, and slowing down our server for everyone else.
It's totally up to YOU how fast your images get uploaded. Make 'em the right size and it will upload in a few seconds.
Again this is not image shack. Don't upload EVERY image you took, just the BEST ONES.
Think before you upload, or you're gonna wait a long time, unnecessarily.
And if you're going to edit your images in photoshop or whatever, you might want to include a copyright notice on the image.
We don't do that here automatically, so it's up to you to protect your images with a copyright notice.
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There's a limit of 5 pictures per post, period. Doesn't matter whether they're smilies or photos.no more then 5 smilies per post either
I also suggest if you're going to post your pics in a thread or album, you include a unique DESCRIPTION with each photo.
Just posting up dozens of (nearly identical) photos of the same plant with no description or accompanying text, wastes everyone's time, bandwidth (which is getting expensive again for mobile/cellphones) as well as site resources.
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Iron_Lion
It's all good.
But at the end of the day aren't grow logs like 90% useless images of plants growing week to week etc..
I guess it's a catch 22.
But at the end of the day aren't grow logs like 90% useless images of plants growing week to week etc..
I guess it's a catch 22.
Again, try to think of it as publishing in a magazine (which is what you are doing). When you read a cannabis magazine grow report or strain story, how many images do they need to include for you to know whether the strain is something you'd like to grow? One? Three? Five? I'd say anything more than five is wasted.
I'd like to see how the plant branches when young, maybe an early flower pic, and then a mature plant and a close-up of a bud.
You see the problem is most ppl can't be bothered to choose among dozens (if not hundreds) of images of the same plant, so instead they make everyone wade thru all their images, forcing us to download huge pages full of repetitive pics.
And again, more and more ppl are downloading using phones and pads that don't have lots of costly bandwidth. People will not come to this site anymore if it takes a minute or more just to view a page.
And if it's your page, they might not wait around for it to load up, and so your thread is by-passed by many.
This is the near-term future for many ppl, slower, more expensive internet connections from mobiles...
Now if you're growing a strain, and you have, say 100 pics of it, what do you do? Do you load them all up on icmag so you don't have to bother sorting thru them, and then have to wait a long time for them to upload?
Or do you choose among them the best 3 or 5, then edit them, making them smaller so they upload fast and make for a quick thread?
It's your choice... You already have 100 photos you don't need to upload them all, just the best...
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Yea I cant seem to get it though, I want to bring a Picture from my camera to "My Albums" on icmag, only one picture, but it sits there like its resizing, but no go.
Maybe if I used photo bucket it would tweak it to work....but then all my other pictures I believe would be exposed... hmm Idk.
Maybe if I used photo bucket it would tweak it to work....but then all my other pictures I believe would be exposed... hmm Idk.
I use photoshop, but not everyone has that.
There are a few easy to use programs that will let you resize your image and remove the EXIF data at the same time...
One free tool I use occasionally is photoscape, that does a lot of things that photoshop does (but not all).
Download Photoscape here: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php
One thing great about Photoscape is that you can work on multiple images at once.
So you can:
1. download all your images from your camera.
2. Highlight all the images you want to resize
3. Use the batch process to resize them all AT ONCE! It can also rename them, strip out EXIF, and put them in a separate folder for you, all at the same time.
4. Then load them up to icmag VERY FAST!
I have an older version of Photoscape, but you may now be able to also add a copyright to the image during the same batch process (or a second batch process).
If you do copyright your image, we don't expect you to put your REAL name on it. If you use your icmag handle, that would work, or even just put Copyright 2012... That would be enough...
Why?
Cause you will be the only person who can prove copyright because you still have the ORIGINAL hi-rez image, without the copyright.
One more tip: To determine what size to make your images, check your limits first. The absolute max allowed on icmag is 1200x1200, 250K size (size is very important to upload fast). Most ppl are limited to 1024 x 1024 and 150K.
So check your file size after you resize to see how big they are. If they are still too big, you may want to change the DPI. Web stuff only needs 72 dpi. Setting your edited images to 72 dpi will assure they are small. Most photos come in at 300 dpi, which creates such huge files.
For those who want to only post the best, I would suggest manually editing the images, cropping, color correction (if necessary), resize, etc.
You'll notice that those who publish images professionally take a lot of pride in their photos and only post up their best, usually after careful editing (if needed).
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Yes, exactly. Only prob is I don't think photoshop (at least the old version I use) will resize a batch of photos at once. So it's one at a time there...
And everyone should see what happens when you DON'T resize your images and put a copyright notice on it...
Your pic gets published in High Times and you don't get credit or paid for it!
See here:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40158
After spending some time yesterday using IE9, I found it to be relatively SLOW compared to Firefox which blazes on the site. It seemed to take longer to load pages and images.
So if you're experiencing slow page loads or photo loading, then switch to another browser like chrome or firefox and see if that helps.
So if you're experiencing slow page loads or photo loading, then switch to another browser like chrome or firefox and see if that helps.
