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Saturday, April 27th, 2019

How to Get an Image Between 50kb and 20mb???

Hello, I have been trying yo add images to various titles, and it keeps rejecting them because they don't fit.  I am at my wits end trying to find one that does fit... can anyone tell me how to resize it so they fit?  I'm using Windows Paint.  Thank you!

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I suggest resizing the image to double (or more) of its current size. I do it all the time with different software. (I just pulled up Paint, and Resize is there, using percentages, and they have a tickbox for maintaining aspect ratio.)


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If the system says that the picture is too small, it’s best to forget it and keep trying to find a better one. There’s no point adding soft, fuzzy and murky pictures. Sometimes there just isn’t any good photos/covers/posters.

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Thank you all!  So, here's the photos (and there's probably more I will want to add)





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Oh, I don't care if they're poor quality... I can't find any that aren't!  It's just a shame to see my fave shorts not have cover images.

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Hi, NarniaisAwesome:

It seems that the images belong to Safety: Harm Hides at Home and
Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners respectively. There are clips of both short films easily available on YouTube. Try to locate one with a certain quality (though is hard to find higher than 480p), take a screenshot and crop it (if needed) with an image editor (Windows Paint is too simple, but suffices to just cropping; there are very good free online editors, like Pixlr)...

Here you are:



Cheers!

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If a title has no cover image, something is (mostly) better than nothing. 

Those I've contributed look fine for the purposes of the smallish icons for lists (grid or detail view), and for the cover image on a title page. At least that's true on a 15.6" monitor. Maybe on 55" the image comes across as blurry. 

I don't contribute one that looks blurry at the icon level.

BTW, a lot of what falls short and I double - come from Amazon product listings. So they're actually clear enough, just very efficiently stored.

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Thank you all for your help!   ljdoncel, you are an angel, thank you!  :)

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Thank you all for your help!   ljdoncel, you are an angel, thank you!  :)

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Why did that go twice?




Why did that go twice?

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Grr... I'm having the same problem again! :/  :)

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This time the images are good quality, but still won't fit.

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Oh, I already submitted those above from ijdoncel's uploads... now I'm working with Dallas pics.  Anyway, here they are:


and


and


I can resize and crop them a little with Paint, but it doesn't help!

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I don’t personally agree that ”something is better than nothing”, if the only photos are in poor quality. It’s a bit counter productive, since it could make the film/series look bad.

Like ljdoncel said, screenshots from Youtube could save the day if other options are not available, but it depends on the quality (the source/resolution of the video), to be honest. Screenshots from the DVD or Blu-ray are of course (often) great options, but require a bit more work.

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I absolutely agree with you. In this particular case, they are two old short films for which finding a better quality/resolution than "YouTube" is very difficult, hence my advice. For more recent or remastered works, where a better source is usually available (DVD, Blu-ray, HDTV, etc.), better screenshots are, of course, preferable and IMHO mandatory.

E.g. This shouldn't have passed the filter...
  • Image from the gallery:


  • Image from the film's Blu-ray:

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Tonto, thank you for that image!  So, from what you and the others are saying, is the problem that my images are too small to be accepted, rather than too big?

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Okay, one more question to ya'll... what is 'between 50kb and 20mb' in pixels?  I've tried looking it up but I can't find a straightforward answer.

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All rejoice! - I learned how to take a screenshot!  :)

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All of them I've submitted so far... work!  

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I opened this thread ready to suggest some solutions but it seems you've worked it out - I will re-iterate that MS Paint is awful and there are plenty of 3rd party (including free) alternatives. 

That said, I'm glad things are working for you now, if you have any further trouble be sure to let us know :D

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Okay, now that images work, I need to correct other people's mistakes!  A poster for a short has nothing to do with the film!  How can I request to have it deleted and replaced?

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Thank you! BTW, in helping me figure this stuff out, you all have furthered the cause for RiffTrax, RiffTrax shorts, and Dallas!