Addendum to #2: you can not touch the cropping boundaries at all, but it'll still perform the crop one way or another. While the resulting image will not lose any data from the crop command (because, well, you didn't change the boundaries), the resulting image can have a larger filesize. For instance, I can control the filesize of a PNG on my end by using OptiPNG; I get no such control over an image that's cropped server-side. The image in post 10 of this thread
of a Garfield strip came out at 111.46KB, while the copy of the image on my hard drive that I submitted to the uploader is 96KB.
I don't know if we're still beholden to a 200KB limit (I think that was lifted?), but it can be annoying.
edited 24th Feb '15 10:32:45 AM by ShadowHog
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While we are talking about images: The picture on Crusader Rabbit is named crusader_rabbit.gif, but you don't find it in the images list - neither by looking for "crusader" nor "rabbit".
The full URL of the pic is: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lt/crusader_rabbit.gif
Maybe it's the /lt/ directory messing things up?
edited 31st Mar '15 9:45:35 AM by FELH2
Get rid of the walled garden7. Instead of shrinking them or simply not letting them in at all, the uploader allows large images to be uploaded, but articles display them shrunk to 350. 8. The "Submit Cropped Image" button does not look like a button, it looks like it's just text.
edited 17th May '15 12:31:00 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.I have the same problem as Achaemenid. I used to be able the crop the images *before* I uploaded, but now all my crops are negated and the TV Tropes cropper is driving me buggy buggy buggy!!! A little help would be prime.
So the uploader is not shrinking images at all, anymore; even if the image is huge it is displayed at 350 pixels wide by the page, though it still takes a huge image's worth of data transfer.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.This is a somewhat serious problem.
As an example, the uploader allowed someone to upload a 564-pixel-wide image and post it on the Bigend Books page, and also told them the markup should be "[[quoteright:564:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/24bb1d9826ad03c94c105e224c778316.jpg]]". Among other things, there are two major issues: the page displays the image at 350 pixels wide anyway so the extra resolution/bandwidth/serverspace is wasted unless you right-click and choose View Image (which almost nobody does), and that markup results in a 214-pixel-wide blank white space to the right of the image (which looks ugly on the page). If it had a caption there would be a third problem: the returned markup would be "[[caption-width-right:564:Some caption text]]", which would make a too-wide caption box. (Here is what the page looked like before I fixed it: Sandbox.Bigend Books.)
I realize there is probably a better image uploader being developed for the 2.0 wiki, but I don't think this should just wait, in the mean time. The uploader should resize images (or not allow them at all) if they're above 350 pixels wide, and the markup it returns should never have a number higher than 350.
edited 6th Jul '15 1:26:44 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.I seem to have the same problem, but only with Internet Explorer. It seems to work with Chrome, at the very least.
I also have this problem in IE that when the preview picture comes up, if the picture is too long, I cannot click it out. It isn't usually a problem as I can still submit the picture, but you know.
Only sometimes posts

Uploaded images get renamed to a long string of letters and numbers. (Example: inspector-javert_the-fugitive.png gets renamed to ff66a1037e9ab3ec78ea46e36c077fd6.png.) This makes the Images List tool useless, and there are other advantages to having filenames that are meaningful to humans. It would be nice if the files retained their name.If you upload an image that is wider than 350 pixels, the image gets resized, but the "markup to use" on the "Upload was successful" page does not reflect this change. Example: if you upload an image that is 1000 pixels wide, it gets shrunk to 350 wide, but the markup displayed on that page is [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/(filename)]] and [[caption-width-right:1000:Some caption text]]... if a user does copy this markup, it results in a lot of empty whitespace on the side of the image and a 1000-pixel-wide caption box.edited 8th Nov '15 3:27:23 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.