This is driving me crazy!

AKAxSharpy

AKAxSharpy

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So I've just spent quite a bit of time designing a new banner for myself.. I get to the point where I'm ready to export the image and I realise it's over the 2mb limit..

After some compression I managed to keep the file as a .png and get it down to 1.8mb, but when I upload it to YouTube, it still says it's too big?! :mad:

What's going on?
 
I've had the same problem :( I spent 2 hours making my banner perfect & i upload it and it says "your file is too big , please make the file under 2mb". WTF! But it's Youtube being Youtube :)

- Tim Cook
 
Tim Cook said:
I've had the same problem :( I spent 2 hours making my banner perfect & i upload it and it says "your file is too big , please make the file under 2mb". WTF! But it's Youtube being Youtube :)

- Tim Cook
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I suppose it is a bit typical of them.. I tried uploading it as a .jpg, and while it did work, it seemed to be a lot brighter than the .png :(
 
Maybe try a different file type? .jpg isn't always as good as .png because of it's transparency abilities (great for web design) but exporting out as a .jpg, and if you're using photoshop you can choose the quality from 1 - 10 and it tells you the file size.

So put it on 10, and if it's over, put it to 9 etc. Most people have this idea that .jpg isn't a good picture type, but for just a static image for use of a banner, it should be fine.

Also, I'm not sure based on what you said, but sometimes YouTube will neglect compression of pictures due to the fact that they cannot have the compressed form uploaded onto their servers. I'm not sure if you meant compressed as in take out elements, lower quality, or use a program. Using a program might make it appear to be smaller, but YouTube won't see it that way.

Hope it all works out for you :D[DOUBLEPOST=1372036523,1372036477][/DOUBLEPOST]
AKAxSharpy said:
I suppose it is a bit typical of them.. I tried uploading it as a .jpg, and while it did work, it seemed to be a lot brighter than the .png :(
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When you saved it as a .jpg it saved brighter, or uploading it to YouTube makes it brighter? :eek:
 
JWB said:
When you saved it as a .jpg it saved brighter, or uploading it to YouTube makes it brighter? :eek:
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It seemed to be YouTube that made it brighter :confused:

I just tried png-8 out of interest, and that uploaded fine, also YouTube didn't change the brightness this time.. I guess it's just a .jpg issue :D
 
JWB said:
Also, I'm not sure based on what you said, but sometimes YouTube will neglect compression of pictures due to the fact that they cannot have the compressed form uploaded onto their servers. I'm not sure if you meant compressed as in take out elements, lower quality, or use a program. Using a program might make it appear to be smaller, but YouTube won't see it that way.
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Oh, that's interesting, I was using a program, so maybe that's why even though it said it was under, it wasn't :p

Learn something new every day :D
 
AKAxSharpy said:
Oh, that's interesting, I was using a program, so maybe that's why even though it said it was under, it wasn't :p

Learn something new every day :D
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I am not too knowledgable on the process, but I believe compressing a file on your computer just changes all of the stuff to pack it tighter into the space, thus using less space, and when you open it up, it recreates it all to show you the image. YouTube can't have this compressed form on their servers, because it would mess up on the web server because to display that image, you are technically 'downloading' that image to display it, and it would be incredibly difficult to have it compressed and then recreate the image for you to see. So YouTube just looks at your file and is like "Umm... Nah, I'll take the original :p"

that's what I believe anyway.
 
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