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"I'm uploading photos I've previously resized from 1mb to 300k and I want to use one for my background on blogger but it comes out tiny on blogger because Flickr resizes it again to only 35k. How can I stop this and keep the original 300k image?"
You have a free account. You'll never be able to access original images in your Flickr account (unless you upgrade to pro).
However, the file size isn't (I'm guessing) the actual issue. When posting images to another site, it's usually the pixel measurements that you're interested in.
I checked your most recent public image. The "large" size is 768x1024 pixels. The file size for that image is 676kb.
Where are you seeing images that are 35kb?
EDIT: I later realized the OP was trying to use a Flickr-hosted image as a background image on Blogger. I'd missed that part at first. Using Flickr images that way isn't allowed by Flickr.
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Wil C. Fry edited this topic 6 months ago.
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on my blogger account. The image appears as a tiny thumbnail instead of a regular picture that used to tessalate across the background
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also when I click on the image in flickr and go to image info it shows only 35k
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You can't use Flickr to host background images for your blog. Why don't you just upload it to blogger?
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"on my blogger account. The image appears as a tiny thumbnail instead of a regular picture that used to tessalate across the background"
Sorry, I missed the "background" part in your original post. Flickr images can't be used that way anyway (against Flickr's rules). You could always try uploading the image to Blogger for that purpose.
(Flickr requires that any Flickr-hosted image, when posted for display on another site, link back to the photopage on Flickr. Blog background images don't have that capability.)
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"also when I click on the image in flickr and go to image info it shows only 35k"
Then you're looking at one of the very small sizes on Flickr.
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 Brenda Anderson:
I can't it won't let me. totally stuck
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the only way round this I could find was to edit the html myself but I needed to host the image somewhere else
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can you explain why a 300k image is shrunk to 35k on flickr?
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The Secret Seamstress
can you explain why a 300k image is shrunk to 35k on flickr?
It's already been explained four comments up from here.
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The Secret Seamstress
"can you explain why a 300k image is shrunk to 35k on flickr?"
It didn't. Flickr doesn't edit our original files. Like I said above, you have a free account, so you can't access your original files to check.
When you upload, Flickr creates a variety of sizes for display on this site. Some of those are small, and some aren't so small. (This is all explained in the FAQs).
I've already checked your images; none of them are 35kb unless you're looking at the absolute tiny squares.
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 Wil C. Fry:
sorry guys, I'm totally lost. all I know is it isn't working for me
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Every photo exists here in many different sizes. Click on a photo, then on Actions -> View All Sizes. You can see that they are different sizes, and you can use any of them.
However, as a background image on a website, that won't work. Blogger DOES have upload options. Sounds like you need help at that site more than at this one.
Start here, perhaps: support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer...
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The Secret Seamstress
" all I know is it isn't working for me"
It won't work for you, because it's not allowed. We explained this above.
As for the image resizing, I'll try to break it down:
1) You edited an image on your computer. It was 300kb.
2) You uploaded that image to Flickr. It is still 300kb. That file is called the "original".
3) You have a free account. You cannot access your original files.
4) As you uploaded the 300kb file, Flickr's servers automatically creates several smaller sizes for display on this site. Look the FAQs to see exactly how many sizes are created.
5) Each of those smaller sizes will have a different file size. The thumbnails might be 35kb. The size on the photopage will be larger than that. And so on.
6) You are (apparently) looking at a thumbnail when your browser tells you it's 35kb. If that's the size you want, then fine.
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Yup, it's a nightmare when you're new and you don't know your arse from your elbow
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The Secret Seamstress:
thanks for your help I'll try & thrash it out at the blogger end again. I had a great background but it had a dark corner so I tried to change it for a new image, now nothing works!
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When you're given the select an image option, select an image on your computer, not on the web. You'll get a full-size image that way, and it will upload there.
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