Attachments

[scarpia]

I cannot seem to download any attachments,the error message is that the file is to large.It is a scan of a black and white postcard.Am I allowed to download at all. operaman

[Guest Rick Research]

If you are not using an Epson scanner, KB size is presumably the problem. Particularly if you are using a camera rather than a scanner there is enormous and invisible "size" that is totally unrelated to the visible size of the image but built INTO it somehow which is completely wasted. That is the normal cause of your problem.

That or using bitmap format instead of jpeg. The former wastes 10 times as much "size" of the useless invisible sort than jpegs do.

The final problem may be related to excessive dpi. Don't use 300 or more. 150dpi works fine.

All posting size issues will be resolved with an Epson scanner. No other brand allows YOU to pick size and cropping in one step without all the compression, re-compression, decompression nonsense of equipment-controlled sizing.

This image made with an Epson scanner at 150dpi is only 27.5KB-- roughly half the Real Size you should be able to post and be viewable here.

[scarpia]

If you are not using an Epson scanner, KB size is presumably the problem. Particularly if you are using a camera rather than a scanner there is enormous and invisible "size" that is totally unrelated to the visible size of the image but built INTO it somehow which is completely wasted. That is the normal cause of your problem.

That or using bitmap format instead of jpeg. The former wastes 10 times as much "size" of the useless invisible sort than jpegs do.

The final problem may be related to excessive dpi. Don't use 300 or more. 150dpi works fine.

All posting size issues will be resolved with an Epson scanner. No other brand allows YOU to pick size and cropping in one step without all the compression, re-compression, decompression nonsense of equipment-controlled sizing.

This image made with an Epson scanner at 150dpi is only 27.5KB-- roughly half the Real Size you should be able to post and be viewable here.

[scarpia]

Thanks Rick,I will play around with the scanner an see what I can come up with.I am sending scans not photos so we shall see. Operaman