The garage will accept several photo formats, but I suggest you use JPEG format, commonly has the file extension of .jpg. There are 2 different sizes you need to be aware of with your JPEG images, and indeed any image. Firstly is the size in pixels (dots). The Maximum display resolution is 1024 x 768 pixels. The garage will attempt to shrink anything supplied oversized to that resolution of 1024 x 768, so that photos will not take up several screens. Smaller photos are not enlarged. Secondly is the amount of space they take up on your HDD. We have to set a limit as we don't have endless bandwidth for storage on our server. The current limit is 400Kilobytes (0.4 of a megabyte). If your picture is greater than 400kb, then it will not upload at all. So, what to do. If you try an upload an image directly as it was taken on your camera, it will likely have very little compression applied. This keeps the quality higher. You will likely have to open your photo up in an editor and re-save with higher compression. More on this compression thing. This is the reason JPEG files are so small compared to say a GIF or a BMP file. JPEGs compression doesn't reduce the files number of pixels, but reduces the file size (space it takes up on hard drives) considerably, and also it does produce a slight loss of quality due to the compression. When you save a JPEG file a lot of programs will have an option to control how much compression is used. Ideally if you want your photos to upload, look through your collection and do the following. Crop and resize the photos to be 1024 x 768 pixels Save the files and check the quality and the size in Kilobytes. If you are happy with the quality and they are less than 400 Kilobytes in size, they should upload no problem If you still have issues, upload one photo at a time. A photo at 1024 x 768 realistically should be under 200 Kilobytes.
