Simviation Forum - Quick Question

Jan 18^th, 2008 at 9:57pm

Brando14100 Ex Member

I'm trying to upload my screenshot files, but is says the file size is to big. How can I fix it?

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Reply #1 - Jan 18^th, 2008 at 10:01pm

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You can use a photo editor of any kind to "compress" the image to reduce the file size to 150K or under.
The rules for the screenshot forums are 1024 pixels wide, 150 kilobytes in size.

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Reply #2 - Jan 18^th, 2008 at 10:09pm

Brando14100 Ex Member

Right uhhh how do you compress now?

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Reply #3 - Jan 18^th, 2008 at 10:34pm

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In the uploads page there should be a link to irfanview, download that and install, then paste or open your pic into irfanview, then resize it in image/resize resample, make it 800*600 or 1024*768, then hit save, it should come up with a quality bar on the right move that around to compress, make sure it's under 150kb by: hit save again after you have saved it then find the folder you saved the first one in hover over the picture it will come up with a bar and in that bar it should say the res, size and what type of file it is(should be jpeg)

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Reply #4 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 9:17am

Brando14100 Ex Member

OK thanks.

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Reply #5 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 9:27am

Brando14100 Ex Member

Everything works except the compress bar doesn't come up.

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Reply #6 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 9:35am

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Are you saving in the correct format? Open the image in IrfanView, resize as required then click File/Save As. Select JPG-JPEG format from the "Save as type" option box.

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Reply #7 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 9:36am