I’ve read about everything I can find here on this subject and I’m still a little confused about what works best for identifiers/researchers. My two basic tools are a DSLR and an iPhone SE. I post-process all my photos, including the iPhone shots, in Photoshop before posting as observations. I do th…

This is correct. Size Resolution in dpi is not a meaningful concept to iNaturalist images, size in pixels is everything. If the image is not square, the longer out of width and height is what matters. Since iNaturalist scales down anything larger than 2048×2048, you can’t overload its storage capa…

[image] robertarcher397: The ideal is to crop to a square maximum of 2048 x 2048. In my example, I mentioned cropping to a square 2048 pixels on each side, so I will continue to do my best to fit that format.

[image] earthknight: My default setting for images is 300dpi and resized to around 10 inches on the longest edge and in Photoshop saved with a quality setting of 10 out of 12. Others have said that the default iNat dimensions are 2048 pixels on each side, which is about 6.8", so are your phot…

[image] tshfyukyi: It seems the site reduces image size to 2048 on the widest edge Welcome to the forum! I’m a new user myself so I have SO many questions (many answers are offered in older topics, too). Many posts in the forum on this topic mention that iNat reduces the dimensions to a 2048…

Yes, cropping before uploading is going to be best. iNat doesn’t have built in image-editing tools, though there have been feature requests for these (but doesn’t seem to be a priority).

They never seem to be. If they are it’s not by enough to show.

[image] ljodwalis: [image] earthknight: default setting for images is 300dpi and resized to around 10 inches on the longest edge and in Photoshop saved with a quality setting of 10 out of 12. Others have said that the default iNat dimensions are 2048 pixels on each side, which is about 6.…

I always use the highest resolution available to take photos, this gives me room to manipulate after. Cropping to ~35% (by width or length) target and ~65% environment usually gives the best artistic effect. Cropping to over 50% target gives the best photo quality of uploaded photos on iNat. It sa…

That’s an interesting concept to crop the photos to square. I always make sure that I take images in both vertical and horizontal formats, and reduce the dimensions to 2048 on the longest edge. But if I were to think like you and do a square crop then would I not need to do both the vertical and hor…

It depends on your subject matter and the situations you find yourself in, doesn’t it? If it’s something small like a bee, flower, or mushroom, you can probably frame the shot so you can crop it into a square. If it’s a larger animal and you want to include some habitat, then a landscape or vertica…

First image square - since it displays better. Then wider view as an additional photo for more info.

Clarification on photo resizing vs resolution

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Clarification on photo resizing vs resolution

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