File Sizes Bigger Than 25mb

unfortunately they insist on small file sizes, all you can do is hope it doesn't get noisy or lossy when saved lower. the only thing i can say is to crop it smaller, reduce the finished size to the 6200px max it can do, or save to a 11 or so until it's smaller.

---Mike Savad

Yeah, I hate that, too. I have a Nikon D800E and often go over the limit. Saving at 11 quality usually trims enough off, but I don't like to do it...

i put a lot of detail in digital art, i'd rather just save it at a 12 to maintain quality. right now i have 2 files saved, one as a back up the other for here. every site i'm on it's higher, on bubble it's 50 meg, but they limit pixels for some reason.

---Mike Savad

Hello

I am afraid the images will need to be under 25mb

We need 100 pixels/inch in order to have a nice image for printing. That makes the math easy as well. Your image menu can be viewed as a pixels/inch ratio, and you can see how many inches wide by tall your image is. You can shrink the image down and it will help the quality of the image, just never blow it up (enlarge)

If your image is 1400 pixels by 1000 pixels then the image can be printed up to 14x10. etc.etc.

If you use Photoshop you can save at a compression down to 10-11 and the image will still print well

As we only accept jpg or png that will lessen the mb immediately if your images are in that format

Abbie

Thanks! I guess it's just a limitation I need to live with. Thanks for the info on how to reduce the file size.
thanks,
Tayne

Saving at 11 quality hurts me physically, but it's the only way to go. It does not harm the image quality at all, in fact, saving .jpg at 12 quality is a huge waste of space, but it makes me cringe anyway.

I'm running up against this. I feel like I cannot upload files large enough to make really good large prints. I feel it's odd to even offer printing of things like 36" x 48" while limiting file size to 25MB.

And I shouldn't use file compression, according to the site, but isn't that what "save at 10 or 11 instead of 12" actually does, is compress the image?

11 is as good as 12, i've save it as low as 9, but prefer not too. i really wish that standard was increased though.


---Mike Savad

I don't usually have a problem with my photographs - but my digital abstracts - I have one now just mocking me at 35mg. I've reduced it just to see and "I" would not be pleased with the work at 25mg

Maybe we're at the point where it doesn't matter, because at 25 mb there's plenty of resolution for the largest print size that FAA offers. I just sold one at 36" x 28" taken by a 10 MP camera and if the buyer is happy, and FAA's printer is satisfied, then I'm happy too and maybe we don't need to waste more time and bandwidth uploading monster files. Downsizing a photo, within sensible limits, is a good way to clean up noise anyway.

It only needs to be as good as it needs to be for the printing technology.

But guys who do things like finely detailed landscapes, with big sensors and top drawer lenses, may have some cause for dissatisfaction. I get that.