Why can't I post a pic that's only 585566 bytes?

[Phoenix]

I've been trying this for a while now and keep getting a message that the foto can only be a max of 100,000 bytes?

What am I doing wrong?

[bryanthompson]

it's nearly six times the size you're allowed... can you trim it down with an editor or reduce the quality? If you can't, email it to me: logansbro [at] gmail and I'll do it for you and send it back.

[Phoenix]

Thanks for the offer Brian. Sooner or later I need to figure this out and do it myself. No time like the present.

I recently got my wife Adobe Photoshop elements and I thought I could do it there. Problem is, every time i do, the quality is way off.

I thought PP would let you upload any sized foto and they would resize for you during the upload process.

[ronin]

one of our members has a nifty little compression utility called jpegprep. do a search here. it should fit the bill

[Steve Carlton]

Originally posted by Phoenix

I recently got my wife Adobe Photoshop elements and I thought I could do it there. Problem is, every time i do, the quality is way off.

Try resizing it first to say 800 pixel width and 72 pixel/inch resolution. You can try "Sharpen" to see if it looks better. Then "Save for Web" and select a quality level that gets you around 90-something K. You can also manually select a quality number to fine-tune the image file size.

[Phoenix]

Got it. Thanks Steve!