Photos Too Large: Please help!

Hello:

Some photos posted on the site are too big.  It seems images are high resolution and not appear on the site. The images on some are from high quality cameras at:4288x2848.

I checked forum topics and there seemed to be a lot of back and forth disagreements, but the question was never answered. Can someone please help me out.  Here are my questions:

1. Is it better to change the default: 600 x 600 (in pixels) in the Administrative panel to something much higher?  If so, what should it be? This seems to be a bit small, or is this default 600 x 600 compressed?

2. Is Admin panel the only place to change this? Should I change it on the server (it's hosted so I may need to ask them if so)?

3.  Need advice.

Thanks!!!!!

Racquel

Go to your www.yoursite.com/m/photos/administration/settings you can specify sizes by pixel etc .

Yes, I went there. From what I read, there were limitations. Is that correct?  I was also informed it takes a lot of load on server for pics of this size.  Default is 600 x 600.  Does this option in admin panel compress the larger images?

Thanks!

Plus, adjusting the 600 x 600 admin default adjusts the size of the unit displayed on the page. I don't need a display that is 4288 x 2888.  I need to know how to compress the pics that are downloaded on a bigger size. Is there a module for this? 

 That would be a no, the system does not resize anything but the avatar.

It is up to the "up-loader" to set the photo size, as you see we have a tab that shows the original.

If you have a member that only uploads images 4288x2888, they would be large in data too, hence more memory, to store and show..

Hey Newton27, this is great to read and very informative. It seems the uploader didn't error out when the picture was too big and made a false impression to the user that this size is allowed. When the user when to view it, it is blank.  The thumbnail also appears blank in the Admin page/view: /m/photos/administration .  I can't possibly monitor every picture that people try to upload, only to find out their picture is too big.  Is there a way to fix this? What is the best solution?

No, there is no "big fix" unless there has been a module released that I'm not aware of.

It seems the uploader didn't error out when the picture was too big and made a false impression to the user that this size is allowed.

A work around is to make an HTML Block on the up loader page, informing the member of what you would like to see the images be a certain size.. that's almost asking to win a lottery so I suppose you could limit the KB size of the images via your php.ini, this will affect the sound and videos if you use them on the site.

If the sounds and video module is not used it is a work around.

i.e.

Site uses no sounds, allows video "embed" only, then set the file upload size to something like 500KB.

[this is just an example]

The images on some are from high quality cameras at:4288x2848.

I'm having the same situation. User uploads a photo, it takes forever, no image is shown, no error is shown. Did you figure out a good solution?

A work around is to make an HTML Block on the up loader page, informing the member of what you would like to see the images be a certain size.. that's almost asking to win a lottery

Yeah..I think winning the lottery is easier! lol

If anyone feels like creating a mod or providing a good solution to help with this issue, I'd be interested.

The flash uploader used in Dolphin 7 is  swfupload.  There is a version 2.5 Beta of this uploader, that provides for client side resizing of the image before uploading to the server.  It also allows you to set the quality.

Here's a demo I set up to resize images to a maximum of 1024 x 1024 at 85% quality:

http://houstonlively.com/swfupload/resizedemo/index.php

A test image I uploaded was 4288 x 2848, and 5.32MB original size.  Client side resizing and upload to the server took about 6 seconds.  The image on the server after uploading, is 1024 x 680, and is 150KB in size.  Go ahead and give the demo a try.

I don't have time to work on this, but using this beta version of swfupload with client side image resizing, would be a pretty good solution to this problem.  It would be a whole lot faster than uploading huge images to the server, then using imagemagick for server side resizing.  Client side resizing will really speed things up, as well as provide a substantial reduction in upstream bandwidth.

Client side resizing and upload to the server took about 6 seconds.

Oh...nice! Thanks so much for posting!! I'll give the demo a try.

using imagemagick for server side resizing

That's what I was thinking might be the best solution...but, sounds like doing on the client side would save a whole lot of server load.

I don't have time to work on this

Was there quite a bit of integration involved on your part? Or is it fairly simple to switch out? If yes, let me know and I'd be glad to pay you for your time ..... if you're interested ... and when you have some time available that is! Thanks again.

It's a standalone demo... I didn't integrate anything.  It should be a reasonably easy thing to change the swfupload plugin to the 2.5 beta.  Someone that has some spare time on their hands might want to take a look at doing this, but that someone is definitely not me.   I'm just proposing a solution. Maybe when I start working on my gay midget nazi porn site, I'll need it badly enough to work on it.

Maybe when I start working on my gay midget nazi porn site, I'll need it badly enough to work on it

lol - please no demos!

It's a standalone demo... I didn't integrate anything.

That's what I thought...wasn't sure. Alright...I think I can handle that. That's probably a good solution, and thanks again!

Thanks HoustonLively. I will give this a try.  I'm sorry with my late response.  I didn't realize people were still answering my question. It is much appreciated!

Racquel

 RE:

 Don't thank me.... there's noting for you to try.  The SWFupload project seems to have come to a halt, and the 2.5 beta has open issues that will probably never be resolved.  I whined a bit for Boonex to add client side image resizing as an option in 7.1, but the request fell on deaf ears. Our best hope is that some third party comes up with a mod to do this.  Until then, we are all screwed.

Yeah, seems a solution is much needed....

Houston: "I whined a bit for Boonex to add client side image resizing as an option in 7.1, but the request fell on deaf ears."

This is 1 of the things that makes me (and possibly others) afraid to commit.  When there is an important need and its completely ignored, I would think that MAYBE, just maybe an "ok, we will work on it, dont know when, but we will work on it".  That would be good enough, but the thought of an issue being completely ignored (from members who knows how to operate Dolphin, it makes me feel like I would be completely SCREWED because I dont know dolphin, and because Im a TOTAL NEWB, my request probably wouldnt be taken into consideration, which would defeat the purpose of tryin to operate a site when there isnt that much support from the authors of dolphin.

But they are now asking for $400, Im just sayin...