its just that FA sucks...

You have to resize files before uploading them, I think the max is 1280?




(And don't upload a larger file using the "edit submissions file" thing cause that's considered site exploitation.)

(And don't upload a larger file using the "edit submissions file" thing cause that's considered site exploitation.)

and it is also against the TOS/AUP. :)

Oh wow. :o I didn't know they added it to the TOS/AUP. I knew about it for awhile cause a friend told me.

yeah, it had been added in like....two or three updates ago. it would be cool to see it given more serious actions considering how much it gets abused too.

though i know a lot of folks use it to get around the file shrinks for stuff like wallpaper images, larger "full" hi-res files, etc. too

Uhm, but FA could also just FIX it and make 'edit submission file' resize images like uploading a new submission resizes images. *shrug* Lame to make a rule out of it because they're too lazy/incapable to fix it.

Huh. We used to allow it when it made sense (usually with a submission that was highly detailed and so deserved the extra size or to avoid the mangling that can happen to certain subs) but if it's been blanket banned that's a bit of a knee jerk reaction. Nuance is better than an iron fist.

Citation please?

Just read them over, there's no mention of any such thing that I could find.

And there's no block against uploading a 10k*10k PNG or JPEG embedded into a flash file such as with SWF Tools or the like.

Yeah, it's a pain...and when I try to re upload again, the quality will be decent but the image is HUGE and takes up the entire screen x__x
I don't know..I just wish they didn't have to convert everything to jpeg.. >_>

I learned in graphics class that it all matters on the DPI (Dots per inch)

Internet resolution needs to be 72 DPI
Print Quality resolution needs to be 300 DPI

So if need be changed your resolution setting when you open a new canvas.
But if the problem is something else I may be able to help!

i have the resolution set to 150, so i dont think thats the problem. It uploads fine anywhere else. ):

(Sorry about the double comment deary)

I've been having the same problem lately. I format my stuff to .png before I upload.
FA uses the .jpeg which is rather annoying sometimes also FA's canvas limit is 1280x1280 so that also causes problems.

It all comes down to canvas size, DPI, File format and few other minor things.


I hope you can figure it out though hun.
Sorry I wasn't much help.

DPI does not matter for internet use. 72 is default, but dpi is dependant on the screen you are viewing on.. your screen will only show one pixel where there is one pixel, no more, no less :P DPI is only only only a factor in printing.

I learned that the dpi should be 72 for internet quality.

I am going for printing class too ;;

You either learned or interpretted wrong :P DPI is irrelevant on a screen. I'll find you a website that explains properly so you understand, I didn't read this entirely but it should clear things up lol http://www.dpiphoto.eu/dpi.htm

He is actlally right, in matter that there is wirtual sceen "millimewter" or "inch" for web design You can specify sizes not only in pixels there but in metric units too. For conversion purpose , for pictures and font on web it assumed to be 72 DPI. For screen fonts on Wondows that assumption is 96 DPI. That is difference from X11 or MacOS, where actual font size in pixels will differe depending on what DPI is declared to screen- on windows it always will be same (except if you use scale factor). Those assumptions are for on-screen diplaying only and made for simplifying GUI code.

Maybe I should have specified that dpi is irrelevant for web-use of images and for almost all other on-screen purposes. This guy was already confused enough though. Yes some things still take into consideration that when computers were new 72 dpi was standard screen resolution, yes sometimes dpi is still important for typography/font. For the most part anything that references DPI as a measurement for on-screen is archaic and if dude up there was using such an application he might know more about dpi than he does. Fact of the matter is anybody who says MORE DPI IS BETTER FOR POSTING TO WEB is oblivious. You're attempting to teach the wrong person about pixels, maybe you should have attempted to educate the young graphic design student above us

I'm not graphic designer, I'm programmer, so I say from point of software view.
More of that, DPI is now variable parameter of screen, especially on tablets PCs under android. and metric unit instead of pixel is natural unit there (which creates some confusion in some cases, as Samsung, for example, specifies wrong DPI for their tablet screens). I was only pointing out that it's not outdated parameter, it's "very hidden" one, which not required for normal users, but still creates headache for developers.

Thing is that he was setting DPI as parameter for editor, if he saves that in PNG or jpeg, DPI there s irrelevant indeed, those file formats doesn't even have such field. So browser renders pictures either pixel per pixel, or in scale specified in HTML code. You _can_ specify size in HTML in mm, or inches - then, depending on platform, and browser, different effects happen. As I said if display is "unknown" Windows and IE suppose it is 72 dpi. Usually it is known though, as display reports its dimensions to hardware

Like I said, You're trying to teach the wrong person pixels. If you feel like teaching a class go talk to somebody else lol. I already know how this shit works as should be evident by now, despite your misinterpreting my responses. It's was perfectly obvious that you just enjoy spewing words out after you said "actually he's right" when he was trying to convince somebody that internet uploaded images need to be 72 dpi. I'm going to ignore any further response from you as it's kind of a waste of time <3

as someone who used to work in the print industry and graphic design field before the economy collapse, I can tell you this, posting a 300 dpi pic online and a 72 dpi pic online looks exactly the same. the ONLY difference is on a physical printer.

:/

DPI is for printing, PPI is for digital files. Usually 300 (pixles per inch) is a good resolution for printing. But yes the 72 px is good for screens because that's all they can really handle. I always post at 300 px anyway

Oh this... You need to press F5 on the page before going to full view... Unless you're using Linux... How can FA have bugs on only some OSs you ask? I don't know... I don't know.

Yeah. Invite everyone to your house to see it in person.

Or giant potato guns to launch printed copies to people who want them.

Or I have no clue and I'm making things up to be silly now. :( I know there's the old "Upload, then re-upload" trick to get things looking better. If you are already doing that - then I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Sorry!

FAs resolution limit is 1280x1280, keep it at that / slight below. Use PNG or if you use photoshop JPG set to full quality (it doesnt look much / any detail.) and full view the image itll show fine!

Re-upload it!

It only goes to 1280 x 1280, but if you go to the spot on your submissions where it says - Change info | Change thumbnail | Change submission file - and click change submission file: you can re-upload the picture that way and it will be as big as whatever size you need :)

i have done this several times with all different files under the size limit but nothing is changing ;;

you have to refresh the page afterwards :>

Doing that is against site rules. I don't think you should tell the artist to do something that can get them a warning.

I didn't think it was against the rules o.o

Everyone does it [well, the people I know at least, hence how I know how to do it] and I've never seen it in the rules o.o

but thank you for warning me, I'll have to go sneak a peek at the rules to find that one

I know someone who got a warning and had their submissions forcefully reverted back to 1280px. It's just that most people won't report it, but if an admin stumbles on it they will deal with it.

No where in the rules does it say any such thing.

http://help.furaffinity.net/article.....olicy-AUP.html
Look for yourself, don't rely on here-say.

Well I'm telling you that I personally know someone that had their files reverted by site staff after doing the reuploading a file thing and was told it's considered site exploitation.

That's what here-say is lol

I don't think seeing the notes exchanged counts as "here-say".

I guess you could always ask  dragoneer or one of the other admins about it, maybe they changed their minds since then cause it has been awhile? c:

Lol... Here-say is finding out second hand, hearing from someone else.

unless you experienced the fix yourself, it's still here-say.

And if it was a term, they'd put it in their terms of service/ AUP

If it's not, then maybe your friend was inappropriately admin'd.

I'm not accusing you of anything LOL but thanks for the laugh.

You could just ask an admin to make sure instead of possibly getting someone in trouble?

There's no need to be so rude. :c

O.o i'm not being rude.

And how would i be getting anyone in trouble..??

They've made plenty of rule changes, why leave one thing out, out of the 500 edits they've done. Makes no sense.
They can't remove something without proper reason to, for example it's against the AUP/TOS.
I wasn't suggesting them to do anything, i just linked them to the rules and told them not to rely on other people to find out. That it wasn't in the rules. So maybe they should find out for themselves. I only replied to your message because it was relevant to the topic, it had nothing to even do with you. It was an in general term.


Chill out, the only comment made about you and your friend was the inappropriate admin'd comment.
Everything else was about the topic of someone and you saying it wasn't/was in the rule.

i made a suggestion, you only took it as an attack and felt the need to defend your statements when they weren't being challenged.
Nothing i said was directed at you, but the artist with the journal, if you still feel attacked, go reread.

I made an opinion, told you it was still here-say because you aren't the artist with the issue, so you and everyone else commenting it's okay/isn't okay is still here-say because they aren't finding out for themselves.

Try not jump to assumptions when reading text. Not everyone on FA is going to be a douche to you and it's text, you can't tell someones approach without tone anyway!
Have a nice weekend!~

I just think that people should check with the admins first before telling people or doing it themselves.4



With all FA's database issues, and the fact that the site has a default upload size, why wouldn't they change the max upload size to be larger if it was allowable? The fact that I've heard of people having their submissions resized and given warnings for it should be taken into consideration too.


If it was allowable why isn't the default larger?

That wasn't against rules, and what they did is to prohibit usage of exploits with avatars.. you could do same with avatar and someone - actually, Benchilla, co-owner of Weasyl, did that, for what he was banned.

I sent in a TT asking if it's okay to use the "edit submission file" to upload larger files than the default.

The problem with FAs picture uploading is that if your image submission is above 1280 x 1280 pixels in resolution it will size down through the system, this results in compression of your image. If you size your image down before uploading it will look fine. Additionally if you would like a higher resolution image you can go into the "change submission file" link under your image once its uploaded, and choose the high resolution image from there. Hitting f5 will refresh it on your screen to the newer/larger image as the older low resolution will still be cached until you force it to recache. I hope that helps <3

The first time you upload it-- FA has it set up that if it's bigger than 1280x1280 it gets turned into a jpg and resized to 1280x1280.

However /no-one/ really follows this law and they just edit the submission-- reupload the file and it bypasses the resizing thing.

It was originally in place because of bandwidth limitations but those limitations have long been surpassed with FA's many servers now and the rule was never changed-- nor was the coding that resizes it.

FA sucks
what i do is reupload it and then press f5, or go to the download page. Is that still not fixing it ? .o.

this was happening to me as well for a couple weeks now :/
the re-uploading thing wasn't working for me for about 2 weeks
but now it's starting to work for some reason

you might just need to wait awhile FFF
or keep pics only by 1280 x 1280

They end up compressing the quality so they can save space on their servers. It's sad because the picture quality starts to look awful on really high res or large pictures. If it makes you feel any better. I LOVE your work no matter what FA does to it ^_^ So don't frett, we still love it!

There is a little secret, especially it works with icons. If you upload to FA not JPG, but GIF the image will be much sharper.

And the other great secret - use Weasyl O.O

I resize my artwork to about 1200 max height or width, that way I can keep it .png

I have also noticed, besides the normal "blurry" shit that happens, that when I upload a drawing it is some times darker than what it looks like in the art program. Often Photoshop.

That's likely due to color profiles. Often, you'll find that websites use sRGB as a default, so when exporting from photoshop, be sure to use the Save for Web function. You'll get an accurate view of how the image will look when you select the sRGB profile in the following window.

You can also avoid the problem by ensuring your color profiles are set to sRGB, as you likely won't need otherwise unless you're planning printing the image.

i know with sai i had a problem and i had to add another white layer underneath and re upload

Well, pretty much like a few people pointed out, 1280x1280 is the magic number here.
I personally draw things bigger than 1280x1280 then re-size it. And usually it looks pretty good to me xD
[there may be a better way though that I don't know about]

Also you could upload as .gif version if .png is not working..

Gifs are limited to 256 colours.

If the image is larger than 1280 wide or 1280 tall it will compress it, the algorithm for compression on FA is not very good especially if it is a PNG image you upload. What to do is make a seperate copy of your original file in whichever photoshop program you use and shrink it down to make a 1280x1280 image file. You can choose the compression settings that look best and it won't look like rubbish on FA.

If you're saving your artwork as a jpeg this might be the issue. Please stop doing this right away! With jpeg every time it or someone sames the file the file gets compressed thus loosing picture quality. Eventually the computer has to do guesswork in replacing that data and really messes up the picture. PNG. is the way to go ;u;

just change submission file in yout submission. It will fix the resolution.

lol if you figure it out please tell me too xD I've been having that issue myself

As others have said, you'll need to do one of two things:

1. Resize your image appropriately, putting the dimensions of the longest side at 1280px or lower. You can make an action out of this to automate the process. Keep in mind that you should preview the image in sRGB format to see how it will look after uploading, which can be done through the Save For Web… menu item.
2. Re-upload your image by selecting Change submission file and uploading the file again. It will not be restricted on size, but I don't recommend this method unless you have an image that needs the larger size, such as a comic.

If you'd like to make an action out of the resizing process, here are the steps you need:

1. Open the Actions window and create a new action. It should begin recording by default.
2. Go to File > Automate > Fit Image… and enter 1280 (or lower) for both values. Enable Don't Enlarge and press Ok. Fit Image resizes based on the longest side, whereas Image Size does not, so it's better for use in actions.
3. With your image resized, now go to File > Save for Web… and set the file type you'd like to export as, checking Convert to sRGB, and resize to 100%.
4. Press Save and select where you'd like your file to be exported to.
5. Go to Edit > Step Backwards to undo the image resize.
6. Stop the action recording and you're finished. :)

omg yes this is so fricking annoying all the colors in my pictures get weird whenever FA resizes them

72 dpi for internet is officially obsolete. It used to be a decent guideline 10 years ago but these days tablets are pushing 299ppi pixel density for the new samsung notes. Apple Retina displays are 264 ppi except for the new mini which does 326 ppi. We're starting to see retina computer screens, and with 4k looking to be the new spec that drives every display device in the coming years, computer has or will catch up to print.

I had similar classes 14 + years ago and they were already saying this. But in practice, saying internet is this or that dpi makes no sense. You have the actual size of your file, which is (#pixels x #pixels) and when making your layout you decide how much space you want it to take on screen in relation to everything else on the page, which can be variable depending on the size of the window it's being displayed in, and the screen type used. Your objective is to get as close to a 1/1 pixel ratio as possible. This is also true when texturing 3d objects for video games. making web pages, interfaces for mobile games etc ..., etc. The only exception that comes to mind is vector graphics.