Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

[Jeremy McCreary]

I just upload them to a free image compression site, it takes seconds.
This site could do it themselves
But yeah it takes up cpu and data, it might be on the to do list.
My picture climbing the hill was reduced to 80kb and still looks OK for a forum

Granted, more time-intensive, but I still prefer to do it manually.
1. Send selected copies to a "copies" folder.
2. Crop each copy as much as possible first.
3. Then reduce resolution as little as possible to get below 2.0 MB.
4. Upload in one batch.
5. Delete all but the copies I might reuse.

The workflow isn't bad in the Samsung photo editor on my Android, and I'm getting faster at it. The resulting files are typically in the 1.50-1.95 MB range but still look good.

Like the pros say, a judicious crop can be the difference between a good photo and a great one. Better yet, the crop is sometimes enough to get under the size limit at full res.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Knocked around Encinitas with my wife K today — just following our noses on our ebikes on a gorgeous spring day. Doesn't get much better than that.

Looking down on Swami's Beach from a favorite spot — the J Street overlook.

Unpaved part of the Encinitas rail trail awash in purple and white sea lavender. First day all year with no need for a windshell but brought one just in case.

Last stop was for groceries at the Just Peachy Market in Leucadia, the northernmost district in Encinitas. Kind of a cross between a fruit-and-vegetable stand, a friendly mom-and-pop bodega, and an eclectic specialty market.

Great produce.

Hard not to feel peachy next to the storefront mural. I like our yellow and blue bike color combo.

K's really getting into her new Velotric Breeze. Knocked out 15 mi today with a big smile — none of that "Can we go home now?" stuff with her first ebike. The Topeak trunk bag with drop-down panniers is great for impromptu shopping runs.

 

[Chargeride]

Thats winning at life.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Knocked around Encinitas with my wife K today — just following our noses on our ebikes on a gorgeous spring day. Doesn't get much better than that.

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Looking down on Swami's Beach from a favorite spot — the J Street overlook.

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Unpaved part of the Encinitas rail trail awash in purple and white sea lavender. First day all year with no need for a windshell but brought one just in case.

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Last stop was for groceries at the Just Peachy Market in Leucadia, the northernmost part of Encinitas. Kind of a cross between a fruit-and-vegetable stand, a friendly mom-and-pop bodega, and an eclectic specialty market.

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Great produce.

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Hard not to feel peachy next to the storefront mural. I like our yellow and blue bike combo.

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K's really getting into her new Velotric Breeze. Knocked out 15 mi today with a big smile — none of that "Can we go home now?" stuff with her first ebike. The Topeak trunk bag with drop-down panniers is great for impromptu shopping runs.

Nice new ride for K!
Yeah, those trunk bags are super useful/versatile!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Granted, more time-intensive, but I still prefer to do it manually.
1. Send selected copies to a "copies" folder.
2. Crop each copy as much as possible first.
3. Then reduce resolution as little as possible to get below 2.0 MB.
4. Upload in one batch.
5. Delete all but the copies I might reuse.

The workflow isn't bad in the Samsung photo editor on my Android, and I'm getting faster at it. The resulting files are typically in the 1.50-1.95 MB range but still look good.

Like the pros say, a judicious crop can be the difference between a good photo and a great one. Better yet, the crop is sometimes enough to get under the size limit at full res.

I do the size reduction on an Android smartphone and on a PC differently:

• On smartphone, I open a photo with Snapseed app. Snapseed has been set by me to Export 720 pixel photos, so I just Export, and a very lightweight photo is ready
• On PC, I copy and paste the photo to IrfanView, reduce the size to either 960 px on horizontal or 720 px on the vertical and paste the photo in my post.

Either technique gives photos of high quality but in kilobyte (not megabyte) size.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I just use an image hosting site (postimages). No worries...

 

[Chargeride]

online batch image compression, takes 20 seconds for 15 2mb images, down to 100kb each

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I prefer to stay just under the 2.0 MB size limit to preserve some zoomability in my uploaded photos. Don't mind the manual downsizing that requires. Forces me to look at cropping opportunities.

 

[Tars Tarkas]

I prefer to stay just under the 2.0 MB size limit to preserve some zoomability in my uploaded photos. Don't mind the manual downsizing that requires. Forces me to look at cropping opportunities.

I don't think there's a whole lot of practical difference in the viewing quality on a computer screen or phone between 2000 kb or 100 kb but under 1 mb is the general recommendation for forums, I think. A page with 20 or 30 2 mb pics can take a while to load and use a lot of storage, which hosts have to pay for.

TT

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Problem with some hosting sites, is when you share one image, the viewer can see all your other photos on that account.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Problem with some hosting sites, is when you share one image, the viewer can see all your other photos on that account.

I don't "think" that's true of postimages
Been wrong before...

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Sometimes (imgur) you can also see the account holders real name. I don’t have too much faith in keeping personal things private on some image hosting sites.

 

[Chargeride]

I used to run a mobile website, theres a PC program called Easy Thumbnails, super small and to the point.
Compresses jpgs perfectly.

Easy Thumbnails

Easy Thumbnails specifications: system requirements and supported image formats

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[PCeBiker]

I just use an image hosting site (postimages). No worries...

I used postimages.org for my Mazda forum for free for Years, then out of nowhere they decided to start charging $100 a year for the service, and held everyone's pictures hostage.

I managed to get in to postimages the day it happened before I was locked out, and downloaded all my 100's of photos.

Problem with some hosting sites, is when you share one image, the viewer can see all your other photos on that account.

I'm pretty sure that I could choose whether a picture was private or was linked to all the others or not?

I used to run a mobile website, theres a PC program called Easy Thumbnails, super small and to the point.
Compresses jpgs perfectly.

So why can't this forum do all that compressing stuff for us?

Am I missing something or what?

They could just mention in the rules or whatever that all photos will be resized to fit.

Why is this our responsibility ?
I suck at technology and had no idea that my photos were gargantuan.
I just took a picture and posted it.

When I send a picture with a text message, the picture automatically gets resized, and I don't have to think about it.

I don't like to think about or learn stuff that doesn't interest me.
Isn't there supposed to be AI crap to take care of s*it like this?

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

So why can't this forum do all that compressing stuff for us?

Am I missing something or what?

Yes. Advertising on this free forum is pretty minimal. Who's paying for the server processing and storage capacity needed to do that for us? Guessing that our new owners could no longer afford to absorb that cost.

 

[PCeBiker]

Yes. Advertising on this free forum is pretty minimal. Who's paying for the server processing and storage capacity needed to do that for us? Guessing that our new owners could no longer afford to absorb that cost.

I was figuring that the downsizing process would only have to be done once, then every time the pictures are accessed or viewed, there would be much less processing and far less storage involved.

I don't think it would "cost" too much for the forum to do it for us.


I did however figure out how to reduce my photos to 40% and I can do it quickly now.

 

[Chargeride]

they still have to pay for the upload and the processing, its free, so I'll do it myself, especially when Im posting a graphic novel of my ride

 

[PCeBiker]

they still have to pay for the upload and the processing, its free, so I'll do it myself, especially when Im posting a graphic novel of my ride

Yeah, I'm used to it doing it now.
At least it doesn't cost them anything to reject my picture if I forget to resize it.
Or maybe it does?
They still have to process my upload enough to find out that it's too big?

So what kind of money are we talking about? Fractions of a penny, or actual dollars per picture?


I'm not aware of any costs or advertising dollars involved when my phone downsizes a picture with a text?
I have free unlimited texting.

Where is all the money hiding?
Am I using up and wearing out my phones' processing power?

 

[Chargeride]

It all adds up, of course thats just a guess, storage issues, capacity of the link, could be anything or all of it.
Everything costs money so dont reduce them to 1.99mb dudes.

 

[Rickman1]