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Cropping may cut off some potential useful details in the photo. Best resize them, I find 2000px longest end on either side (length/height) is sufficient for most viewing. Dropping down DPI to like 72-95 dpi also can reduce the filesize a lot, higher dpi only needed for printing. There are many onli…

[image] dixonlau: Cropping may cut off some potential useful details in the photo. Depends on the photo. In many observations the subject takes up only a small section of the image, and cropping is highly desirable. Resizing without cropping can make the subject unidentifiable.

Unless your image meets the required dimensions and you are getting this message despite that, this is not a bug. iNat has limited storage space, so images sizes (both dimensions and memory) have had upper limits on them for a long time now.

Welcome to the iNat forum! I would definitely recommend cropping strategically rather than/before resizing (sometimes one may need to do both), as high resolution is often most useful for IDing key characters. Also, dpi doesn’t matter for web display, just printing. You can just focus on the max pi…

[image] Michelle: If your photo files are too big, try cropping them down to a maximum of 2048 by 2048 pixels. This will happen to all photos on the server anyway, and will make for a faster upload. If this is the wording of the error message, it should be revised, shouldn’t it? The system do…

Apologies everyone, I should have clarified: I always upload images from my camera and iNat has never had an issue with it before. It appears to be accepting my photos at the size I normally upload them again today.

I'm getting a message about photo size being too big

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I'm getting a message about photo size being too big

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