It's not that it's that hard to accomplish, it's that it's an extra set of steps to have to figure out the exact dimensions you want to crop to using a different program first, and then type them into a command line, or to have to redo the crop repeatedly until it's to the exact pixel border you want (most of my crops are for getting rid of empty border boxes on vertical Instagram posts and such).
Thanks, that's interesting, although I'm not sure that's really "simple" given that you can't just drag a box around the area you want to keep.
Looking it up, apparently the free image viewer IrfanView also has an option for lossless jpeg cropping (it's under the Option menu), to do it with a GUI. I might actually try that the next time I need to crop something, although it's also fine if people just use .png's.
Sometimes I forget that what looks simple to me might not be so simple to others... :) Sorry.
I think lossless JPEG cropping is a better way because not only the dimensions of the picture will be smaller but also the file size will be smaller by cropping the unwanted sections of the picture. Saving the cropped picture as PNG results in a MUCH larger file size. Although if file size is not a problem than the PNG way is also fine.
Thanks, that's interesting, although I'm not sure that's really "simple" given that you can't just drag a box around the area you want to keep.
Looking it up, apparently the free image viewer IrfanView also has an option for lossless jpeg cropping (it's under the Option menu), to do it with a GUI. I might actually try that the next time I need to crop something, although it's also fine if people just use .png's.
Just as an added note, if you're going to edit a photo to crop it, please save the result as a .png. If you resave the edited version as a .jpg instead it'll lose some quality due to lossy recompression.
I'm not an expert but you can crop, rotate, mirror jpeg photos without quality loss with the command line tool called jpegtran. Cropping an image is really simple:
This has been suggested several times, so I'm giving it a shot.
Moderation is the same as elsewhere on the forum. Politics, while not strictly speaking banned because it can come up organically as a part of another topic, is discouraged. Being civil is important.
For now the threads posted here do show up on the front page. I'll see what kind of activity this gets and reevaluate later if it turns out that most of the threads are not relevant to most people.
OK thanks for your feedback - just to say this was coverage of a competition and I was trying to show girls struggling to lift smaller weights than those Nataliya Trukhina was lifting.
@envallfan I just looked and the images you uploaded of her, that were deleted are all low quality screenshots. They aren’t even good screenshots. One is occupied 70% by a map and maybe 10% of it is an image of the athlete. Definitely more a forum thing than something for the main collection.
I don't know what "sequence" you're uploading, but if they aren't really worth looking at individually or are too similar to each other you're probably better off making a post on the forum for them.
I am attempting to upload images covering Natalia Trukhina's armlifting competition which took place at a hotel in the Crimea in 2014. Before I started I emailed to give administration an idea of what was coming.
I thought a linked sequence would give the younger/newer visitors to these pages a greater appreciation of Natalia's strength. The images were taken from the internet in 2014. They are inevitably low quality because of their age. Some of the images have been deleted on upload - no direct appeal seems possible and now my sequence is already shot!
I have text ready to paste to each image in sequence along with the usual sequencial links. It would be good if the 'uploader' was able to include the initial text with the upload. Any thoughts on that?
I made an update so that only favorites on your 15 most recent uploads count toward giving you bonus upload points. This is because we found that it was too easy for people to "go infinite" with uploads where they uploaded a ton at one time, and then accumulated favorites/bonus points on those uploads rapidly which led them to upload more, etc.
Huh, I somehow missed this feature completely. Thanks Chainer, now I just have to remember the users I always wanted to subscribe to...
Judging from the highest subs, it doesn't seem to be getting much use currently. I'm guessing most people (like me) aren't aware of it. Maybe the button should say something more detailed, like "Subscribe to User's Uploads", to differentiate it from the model Subscribe button?
Also I don't think this has been answered, @asianfitnessfan seemed to misunderstand the question:
Is there a place to go to see all the users you are subscribed to?
Your queue slots are still taken up by your previous uploads from before the system change, which are currently on the waitlist and slowly being posted. Over the next day or so you should have more upload ability.
tl;dr: I have just made some fairly significant changes to how the queue works when uploading. Read below for more details, although you don't need to know all these details in order to upload.
There is no more "staff approval queue" in the same sense that there was before. You no longer need to choose an "approval method", you just upload and the system takes care of it.
The direct upload points system hasn't changed since last time.
Now, unless you are fairly new to uploading (<1,000 total score) you will have a small number of "queue slots" in addition to your direct upload slots. These get used only if you've already used up your available direct uploads, in which case your further uploads go into the queue. This is not like the old staff approval queue, though - once you regain a direct upload point (for example, a daily upload through the passage of time, or a bonus upload from people favoriting your images), if you have an upload in the queue, it gets auto-posted for you. There is no staff approval involved. The purpose of this is so that you don't have to constantly keep checking back to see if you've regained direct upload slots.
There is another change that affects new accounts only (<100 total score). All of your uploads need to get manually approved by the site staff. This is exactly like the old staff approval queue, except you don't choose to have your uploads go in it; they either all do, or none of them do, depending on your account status.
We also have the ability to manually set any account to require all of its uploads to be manually approved, if we notice repeated low quality uploads from the account.
So, in summary: No more staff queue; if you have >1000 total score you can exceed your direct uploads and they get auto-posted for you later; new accounts and accounts we place on probation need all their uploads manually approved by the staff.
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It's not that it's that hard to accomplish, it's that it's an extra set of steps to have to figure out the exact dimensions you want to crop to using a different program first, and then type them into a command line, or to have to redo the crop repeatedly until it's to the exact pixel border you want (most of my crops are for getting rid of empty border boxes on vertical Instagram posts and such).
Sometimes I forget that what looks simple to me might not be so simple to others... :) Sorry.
I think lossless JPEG cropping is a better way because not only the dimensions of the picture will be smaller but also the file size will be smaller by cropping the unwanted sections of the picture. Saving the cropped picture as PNG results in a MUCH larger file size. Although if file size is not a problem than the PNG way is also fine.
Thanks, that's interesting, although I'm not sure that's really "simple" given that you can't just drag a box around the area you want to keep.
Looking it up, apparently the free image viewer IrfanView also has an option for lossless jpeg cropping (it's under the Option menu), to do it with a GUI. I might actually try that the next time I need to crop something, although it's also fine if people just use .png's.
I'm not an expert but you can crop, rotate, mirror jpeg photos without quality loss with the command line tool called jpegtran. Cropping an image is really simple:
jpegtran -crop WxH+X+Y -optimize -progressive input.jpg > output.jpg
Assuming you're not an AI bot - not sure what you're talking about, the upload changes went into effect back in January.
Hopefully, the new policies will provide clarity and resolve this issue soon. Hang in there!
Maybe best for a forum post, rather than the main gallery. Also the photos are coming off as a little repetitive.
https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/forum/topic/62/
This has been suggested several times, so I'm giving it a shot.
Moderation is the same as elsewhere on the forum. Politics, while not strictly speaking banned because it can come up organically as a part of another topic, is discouraged. Being civil is important.
For now the threads posted here do show up on the front page. I'll see what kind of activity this gets and reevaluate later if it turns out that most of the threads are not relevant to most people.
OK thanks for your feedback - just to say this was coverage of a competition and I was trying to show girls struggling to lift smaller weights than those Nataliya Trukhina was lifting.
@envallfan I just looked and the images you uploaded of her, that were deleted are all low quality screenshots. They aren’t even good screenshots. One is occupied 70% by a map and maybe 10% of it is an image of the athlete. Definitely more a forum thing than something for the main collection.
BTW the question was probably more suited for another thread: https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/forum/thread/...
I don't know what "sequence" you're uploading, but if they aren't really worth looking at individually or are too similar to each other you're probably better off making a post on the forum for them.
I am attempting to upload images covering Natalia Trukhina's armlifting competition which took place at a hotel in the Crimea in 2014. Before I started I emailed to give administration an idea of what was coming.
I thought a linked sequence would give the younger/newer visitors to these pages a greater appreciation of Natalia's strength. The images were taken from the internet in 2014. They are inevitably low quality because of their age. Some of the images have been deleted on upload - no direct appeal seems possible and now my sequence is already shot!
I have text ready to paste to each image in sequence along with the usual sequencial links. It would be good if the 'uploader' was able to include the initial text with the upload. Any thoughts on that?
Awesome feature that makes things so much easier
Thank you
I made an update so that only favorites on your 15 most recent uploads count toward giving you bonus upload points. This is because we found that it was too easy for people to "go infinite" with uploads where they uploaded a ton at one time, and then accumulated favorites/bonus points on those uploads rapidly which led them to upload more, etc.
Thanks.
There isn't.
You're right that it's not getting as much use as I expected, putting a button on the image page seems like a thing to try.
You are right (and generous), my answer was sloppy/hasty and did not address the actual question.
Huh, I somehow missed this feature completely. Thanks Chainer, now I just have to remember the users I always wanted to subscribe to...
Judging from the highest subs, it doesn't seem to be getting much use currently. I'm guessing most people (like me) aren't aware of it. Maybe the button should say something more detailed, like "Subscribe to User's Uploads", to differentiate it from the model Subscribe button?
Also I don't think this has been answered, @asianfitnessfan seemed to misunderstand the question:
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There isn't a hard limit of uploads per day, but in practice you are limited by how many bonus uploads you can get from people favoriting your pics.
Is there still a daily upload limit? If there is, what is the limit of uploads per day?
Thank you
Your queue slots are still taken up by your previous uploads from before the system change, which are currently on the waitlist and slowly being posted. Over the next day or so you should have more upload ability.
I have almost 69,000 total score and am unable to upload. When will the new “upload” policies go into effect? Plus I have 14 pics/vids in the queue.
tl;dr: I have just made some fairly significant changes to how the queue works when uploading. Read below for more details, although you don't need to know all these details in order to upload.
There is no more "staff approval queue" in the same sense that there was before. You no longer need to choose an "approval method", you just upload and the system takes care of it.
The direct upload points system hasn't changed since last time.
Now, unless you are fairly new to uploading (<1,000 total score) you will have a small number of "queue slots" in addition to your direct upload slots. These get used only if you've already used up your available direct uploads, in which case your further uploads go into the queue. This is not like the old staff approval queue, though - once you regain a direct upload point (for example, a daily upload through the passage of time, or a bonus upload from people favoriting your images), if you have an upload in the queue, it gets auto-posted for you. There is no staff approval involved. The purpose of this is so that you don't have to constantly keep checking back to see if you've regained direct upload slots.
There is another change that affects new accounts only (<100 total score). All of your uploads need to get manually approved by the site staff. This is exactly like the old staff approval queue, except you don't choose to have your uploads go in it; they either all do, or none of them do, depending on your account status.
We also have the ability to manually set any account to require all of its uploads to be manually approved, if we notice repeated low quality uploads from the account.
So, in summary: No more staff queue; if you have >1000 total score you can exceed your direct uploads and they get auto-posted for you later; new accounts and accounts we place on probation need all their uploads manually approved by the staff.