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Photo too BIG?

paul81lee Member
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Hi,

I've placed a photo of 3072*2304 into the album folder by ftp.

It is showing in the album, when I click on the image tab to give the image a description etc. The image preview is not there, in place it says "crop IMG_5165.JPG" . When I click on the album to view the image, the preview ones are not there. I can only see the image when I click onto the full size one. Is there a limit of photo resolution that zenphot can handle?

Thanks

Comments

  • micheall Member
    I ran into similar when posting up some of my panoramic shots. I don't think it's a limitation of Zenphoto itself, more of a limitation of php is my understanding of it. But then I guess I could be wrong, we'll see if someone else weighs in. If you're able to, try upping the php memory limitation and see if it works.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    It's explained on the troubleshooting guide.
  • paul81lee Member
    Ah,

    I think I found what your talking about?? So this is a physical limitation on our webhosts server? Thanks. See...

    Why are some of my thumbnails/sized images not generated? Why does Zenphoto make my server crash while processing images?

    If you’re running a web server on a VPS or other resource-limited environment, then you might not have enough memory available to the server to process very large images. You can use the following table as a guideline to see how much memory you need available to process images of different sizes:

    * VGA Image, 640 x 480 pixels => needs ~4.1 MB Memory
    * SVGA Image, 800 x 600 pixels => needs ~4.8 MB Memory
    * 1 MP Image, 1024 x 798 pixels => needs ~6.3 MB Memory
    * 2 MP Image, 1600 x 1200 pixels => needs ~11.7 MB Memory
    * 6 MP Image, 2816 x 2112 pixels => needs ~22.6 MB Memory
    * 8.2 MP Image, 3571 x 2302 pixels => needs ~41.7 MB Memory

    As you can see, the 8.2-Megapixel 3571×2302 image requires a very large amount of memory to process, and that’s simply because of the number of pixels. It doesn’t matter if the image is only 2 or 3 megabytes when compressed in JPEG form, or what colors the image contains or anything– it’s just how big it is, because all of those pixels have to have a place in memory while the GD library processes them. There’s no way around it!
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Exactly.
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