Morning
I’m trying to upload a picture but it won’t upload, I have saved it to jpeg, the file size is 36.5 mb, am I doing something wrong, sorry to ask, this is what happens. Thankyou
The error message on the screen implies the file is PNG not jpeg?
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Looks like something your end
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The site accepts png OK.
So I sent it to Snapseed which shrank the file, then it uploaded 
but I’m sure the original file was not to big, having posted similar file size before.
Resulting in losing a bit of picture quality.
If the file was too large, you’d have had a message that told you that.
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Thanks ozonevibe Dave, I’m sure that is correct as I’ve seen that before, thankyou
Scratching my head here as I’ve posted bigger files in the past
Which I’ve had before or sometime ago,
However on further investigation call it, I re done the image from scratch, down scaling its file size which ruined the resolution to a point it was mosaic, however I than ran it through topaz gigapixel & up scaled the resolutions to put back the quality it lost,
I tried to see if this page would accept it but not post it & it did, a bit of a faff but it’s a work around, now the file size is smaller whilst holding a pretty decent quality.
It looks like you are converting to jpg which is a much larger file size than jpeg.
We’ll all this time I thought jpg is jpeg
JPGs and JPEGs are the same file format .
JPG and JPEG both stand for Joint Photographic Experts Group and are both raster image file types. The only reason JPG is three characters long as opposed to four is that early versions of Windows required a three-letter extension for file names.
You got a link
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Yeah, as Richard @Kirky said, they are the same. Back in the days of early Windows it could only handle 3 letter extensions, so .jpg. Mac didn’t have a 3 letter limit, so used .jpeg
One thing to remember, jpeg’s can be saved at different levels of compression so this changes the file size.
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Only a novice at this stuff although my wife says I’m a genius. However, what I noticed was that the jpg files from my mini2 are circa 5000KB but when converted to jpeg come out as circa 600KB. Much easier to email or import into a word doc. As indicated previously this is probably due to the compression rather than the file type but worth a suggestion though. We never stop learning.
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As above - that has nothing to do with “jpeg” v “jpg” … those are only file extensions and have no bearing on the file size. (If you edit the file extension from one to the other - they behave identically.)
What you are not doing is “converting” - but what you are doing is using different compression parameters in the software you are using.
More compression = Less detail.
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