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Originally Posted by scottmandue

This always ticks me off...
Trying to load pictures of the Huntington library from the cactus garden, same camera, same day, same setting as my previous two posts...
But Pelican rejects them as "file too large".
Anyone know what is up with that?

complexity of the image. An image of something that doesn't have lots of detail, color, texture will be smaller than an image with lots of detail, color, texture when compressed, because all of that extra stuff doesn't compress as well.

The two images below are of the same composition at essentially the same time, but one has a longer exposure, so lots more detail. The image that's mostly just a very dark blue/black sky is 57k, the image that has more detail everywhere including the sky is over 50% larger at 89k.