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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 646786, member: 10171&quot;]ok, there are so many possible reasons a file is &#039;too large&#039;, that it might be very hard to figure out &#039;back and forth&#039; what the reason is...</p><p>so, I will assume nothing, e.g., that you have no computer lingo skills, like what a 3 MB JPEG image is, b/c&nbsp; typically it won&#039;t upload because it was taken in high definition, or you are using an usual format ... whatever.</p><p>So, here&#039;s a &#039;relatively simple&#039; way to resize and then load pics, if you are sitting at a PC (not Mac, not android or i-phone):</p><p><br /></p><p>1) open the too large picture on your desktop in whatever viewer you use (I picked a picture of mine that was over 4 MB, very large, tested it here, so sure get the &#039;too large&#039; error)</p><p><br /></p><p>2) minimize the viewer (use the square next to the close window &#039;x&#039;) so it covers only part of the screen, not all of it[ATTACH=full]183802[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2) open the PC snip tool, i.e., click this:&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]183801[/ATTACH]&nbsp; it opens like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]183803[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>3) when it opens, use the cursor and drag a box around the open picture.&nbsp; It&nbsp; automatically creates a new box with your picture in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) Save this picture. go to &#039;file&#039; and save this picture to your desktop.&nbsp; It will be called &quot;Capture.JPG&quot; unless you name it something else.&nbsp; Somewhere on your desktop you will find a small icon of it, like this</p><p>[ATTACH=full]183806[/ATTACH]</p><p>I just checked the properties of this JPG image, and it reduced the size from 4 MB to only 22 KB.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now just use the &quot;upload a file&quot; button on this page to find the image and load as you tried before.&nbsp; By hitting &quot;full image&quot; ... here&#039;s mine:[ATTACH=full]183808[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>4 MB down to 22 KB.&nbsp; still decent size.&nbsp; You&#039;ll get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[and for the techies, interestingly, this site apparently converts the JPG to PNG before it loads, increasing the 22KB to 197KB]&nbsp; </p><p>P.S. the reason I suggested minimizing the viewer is because that already &#039;shrinks&#039; the physical size of the pic, so the snipping tool has less to snip.&nbsp; Of course if the item is already very small in the picture, you don&#039;t have to, and probably shouldn&#039;t since there won&#039;t be much to see by the forum members.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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