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SandwichShortOfAPicnic

SandwichShortOfAPicnic

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The pics I load from my MacBook won’t display and don’t know why.

They are loading because if I double click the image reference it will allow me to download the pic from the forum so it displays.
Any ideas?
It looks like this. Sorry it’s grainy obviously I couldn’t upload a displayable screenshot from the MacBook 😂

IMG_0598.jpeg
 
How large, and what format are the images? I load images from my MacBook Pro all the time, and have no issues. I do reduce the sizes in Apple's basic "Preview" app, if they are just snapshots. I resize them to 72DPI and a maximum of 1200 pixels in either direction.

BTW, I just drag-and-drop images from my desktop to the post, or copy and paste. I don't use the forum's insert/attach files routine.

CD
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
The pics I load from my MacBook won’t display and don’t know why.

They are loading because if I double click the image reference it will allow me to download the pic from the forum so it displays.
Any ideas?
It looks like this. Sorry it’s grainy obviously I couldn’t upload a displayable screenshot from the MacBook 😂

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That looks like an unrecognised file format to me. We don't support webp (yet). Jpeg is your best bet.
 
Have you tried copying and pasting?

This is a .webp image copied and pasted here.

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The forum changes it to a .png image as it displays it. I know not why.
 
Yorky said:
This is a .webp image copied and pasted here.
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Yorky said:
The forum changes it to a .png image as it displays it. I know not why.
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We don't support webp (yet).
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We do have software built in that converts some formats into more commonly recognised formats and also resizes automatically to meet forum sizing. It will slow the upload down :)rolleyes:) though using these options.
Uploads to the forum are much faster is you covert to jpeg and resize beforehand.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Uploads to the forum are much faster is you covert to jpeg and resize beforehand.
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I try and use resized .jpegs all the time when uploading from my computer. In copying and pasting direct from another website the format is in God's hands.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We do have software built in that converts some formats into more commonly recognised formats and also resizes automatically to meet forum sizing. It will slow the upload down :)rolleyes:) though using these options.
Uploads to the forum are much faster is you covert to jpeg and resize beforehand.
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I downsize my photos mostly to reduce the file size. I don't want to use any more space on the forum's server than I have to. It is harder to do in some formats than with others. Screen captures are hard to make small, for some reason -- they are PNG files. My camera and iPhone photos are a lot easier to get down to a reasonable file size, and still post a nice size image. My iPhone is set to save images as 72DPI JPG files, which I downsize to 1200 or less pixels in either direction, and I reduce my camera files to the same size in Photoshop.

CD
 
caseydog said:
I downsize my photos mostly to reduce the file size. I don't want to use any more space on the forum's server than I have to. It is harder to do in some formats than with others. Screen captures are hard to make small, for some reason -- they are PNG files. My camera and iPhone photos are a lot easier to get down to a reasonable file size, and still post a nice size image. My iPhone is set to save images as 72DPI JPG files, which I downsize to 1200 or less pixels in either direction, and I reduce my camera files to the same size in Photoshop.

CD
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If you watch the physical file size of uploads, you'll see that the server compresses them further. It's not a setting I can modify.
 
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