What's the deal with uploading photos? I used to be able to drag and drop from my machine directly to the site and now I get an error that says "Failed to the load image with the provided URL.." The image shows up in the editor pane, starts to rescale and then I get the error. I get the same error when I try and upload with the upload button.
Is there a max image size that the system can rescale?. Does it only work with certain browsers? I'm using Firefox. Is the universe out to get me? Is it a conspiracy to keep me from boring people with pictures of my cats? Help!
Tom Suddard
Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
8/17/21 12:30 p.m.
Hmm, sorry about that! We'll get it fixed.
It's working for me using the intended path: Add post, click on the little photo/landscape icon, click upload, select photo and ok. I'm on Safari.
Margie
Mr_Asa
PowerDork
8/17/21 12:37 p.m.
Dragging and dropping from the desktop seems to work for me?
It looks like it might be a max image size problem. This picture is 4725x 3150 and 17.5MB before the site rescales it.
This one is 4032 x 3024 and 4.99 MB
The ones I'm having trouble with are 6000 x 4000 and run about 8 MB. Either that it's good with cat pictures but doesn't like Miatas.
Here's a Miata picture at 4032 x 3024.
I think it's image size.
Mr_Asa
PowerDork
8/17/21 12:52 p.m.
And this was an almost 8MB file, it uploaded fine. 5184x3456
I do notice that my computer slows down and acts strangely when I upload something big.
Mr_Asa said:
36MB 15682 x 4510
Interesting. Nikon generated JPEGs perhaps? That's the other thing that the problem images have in common.
Fascinating. The problem seems to be with Nikon generated JPEGs. I shoot in a mode that saves both a RAW and JPEG image to the card. The image below is the RAW copy, imported into Lightroom and then exported. As you can see it loaded fine. It has a 6000 x 4000 resolution and a file size of 9.83 MB. The Nikon generated JPEG also has a 6000 x 4000 resolution but is slightly smaller at 8.07 MB. However, the site is won't load that one.
Mr_Asa
PowerDork
8/17/21 1:07 p.m.
Well, that is exceedingly strange.
This is the Nikon JPEG opened in Corel PaintShop Pro X5 and then saved as a copy. That loads as well.
That too seems to point to something in the Nikon format being incompatible.
I've got a couple of work arounds now so, I'm good but, if the developers would like an image to troublshoot with let me know where to send it.
I wonder if there's some imbedded copyright/DRM code in the Nikon format?
sleepyhead the buffalo said:
I wonder if there's some imbedded copyright/DRM code in the Nikon format?
That's an interesting thought. There was a bunch of noise about adding DRM to the JPEG format back in 2015 but I don't know that anything came of that.
Because I love pointing it out, the image resizing only applies to the horizontal dimension.....
(note: this rediculous building has no sewer service, so they have to empty it will a long line of poop trucks, every day!)
drag and drop never worked for me... before or after the upgrades. It puts the frame in place, but it's just a blank frame or an error. Drag and drop just gave me this. Copy/paste works and I get this...
