Have only ever purchased before, trying to list a few items from my
parents' house, can create the description OK, when I go to load photos
(from local hard drive) the preview looks fine, but when it does the
upload image gets replaced with a random solid pastel colour, have
turned off ghostery and uBlock for ebay, still the same.
What gives?
Try a different browser? The 'random colour' thing on other websites can be due to generating a 'preview' of an image that's only one pixel high, that gets expanded to the full frame.
Have only ever purchased before, trying to list a few items from my
parents' house, can create the description OK, when I go to load photos
(from local hard drive) the preview looks fine, but when it does the
upload image gets replaced with a random solid pastel colour, have
turned off ghostery and uBlock for ebay, still the same.
What gives?
You need to upload from the app. I have never managed to upload a photo
from the laptop.
Have only ever purchased before, trying to list a few items from my
parents' house, can create the description OK, when I go to load photos
(from local hard drive) the preview looks fine, but when it does the
upload image gets replaced with a random solid pastel colour, have
turned off ghostery and uBlock for ebay, still the same.
What gives?
Andy Burns wrote:
when I go to load photos
(from local hard drive) the preview looks fine, but when it does the
upload image gets replaced with a random solid pastel colour
It's a problem with the photo. Taking a high-resolution photo (JPEG) and editing
it with Irfanview does *exactly* the same thing for me.
Thomas Prufer wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
when I go to load photos
(from local hard drive) the preview looks fine, but when it does the
upload image gets replaced with a random solid pastel colour
It's a problem with the photo. Taking a high-resolution photo (JPEG) and editing
it with Irfanview does *exactly* the same thing for me.
Thanks I'm back home now, so will try it again tonight after scaling the >image down ...
Andy Burns wrote:
when I go to load photos (from local hard drive) the preview looks
fine, but when it does the upload image gets replaced with a random
solid pastel colour
It's a problem with the photo. Taking a high-resolution photo (JPEG) and editing
it with Irfanview does *exactly* the same thing for me. Taking a lower-resolution photo and then just uploading it 1:1 unedited works.
I tried loading into GIMP and
crop very slightly
saving with 94% quality
remove EXIF
rescale to 50% size
convert jpeg to png
none of which made any difference
using chrome instead of firefox worked (an unfortunate trend of many websites)
Just try uploading the original photo to ebay directly?
The ebay picture editor will do all those edits
Thomas Prufer wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
when I go to load photos (from local hard drive) the preview looks
fine, but when it does the upload image gets replaced with a random
solid pastel colour
It's a problem with the photo. Taking a high-resolution photo (JPEG) and editing
it with Irfanview does *exactly* the same thing for me. Taking a
lower-resolution photo and then just uploading it 1:1 unedited works.
I tried loading into GIMP and
crop very slightly
saving with 94% quality
remove EXIF
rescale to 50% size
convert jpeg to png
none of which made any difference
using chrome instead of firefox worked (an unfortunate trend of many websites)
Thomas Prufer wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
when I go to load photos (from local hard drive) the preview looks
fine, but when it does the upload image gets replaced with a random
solid pastel colour
It's a problem with the photo. Taking a high-resolution photo (JPEG) and editing
it with Irfanview does *exactly* the same thing for me. Taking a
lower-resolution photo and then just uploading it 1:1 unedited works.
I tried loading into GIMP and
crop very slightly
saving with 94% quality
remove EXIF
rescale to 50% size
convert jpeg to png
none of which made any difference
using chrome instead of firefox worked (an unfortunate trend of many >websites)
Andy Burns wrote:
using chrome instead of firefox worked (an unfortunate trend of many websites)
Why not run the "file" command on it (Linux or WSL) and
see if there is a unique property inside it.
I was working with what I thought was a text file the other day,
and grep would not finish scanning my text file. When I saw
the output of "file", I knew I was sadly mistaken about my
assumptions of text. And there appeared to be some binary
corruption in the file, like some clusters didn't get written
at some point. Once I edited out all the binary blunders with
a hex editor, grep began working again.
You've probably taken the picture with an Apple product :-)
Another possibility is some kind of "automatic classifier"
on the website, has rejected the picture. For any number of reasons.
"You may include pictures, as long as they don't infringe third-party rights
and they follow our policies, including the Feedback misuse policy, the
Offensive materials policy, the Adult items policy, and the
Illegal explicit content policy."
Paul wrote:yresolution=172, resolutionunit=2, software=HDR+ 1.0.611900660zd, datetime=2024:04:07 17:00:48, GPS-Data], baseline, precision 8, 2900x3024, components 3
Andy Burns wrote:
using chrome instead of firefox worked (an unfortunate trend of many websites)
Latest example is my pension provider website now gives me an endless stream of zebra-crossings and motorbikes to identify, thankfully I can get past by solving the audio version.
Why not run the "file" command on it (Linux or WSL) and
see if there is a unique property inside it.
original file from phone
jug1_a.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, aspect ratio, density 1x1, segment length 16, Exif Standard: [TIFF image data, little-endian, direntries=11, manufacturer=Google, model=Pixel 5a, orientation=upper-left, xresolution=164,
50% resize, 95% quality, EXIF stripped
jug1_a - Copy.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 300x300, segment length 16, progressive, precision 8, 1450x1512, components 3
Same but as PNG
jug1_a - Copy.png: PNG image data, 1450 x 1512, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
I was working with what I thought was a text file the other day,
and grep would not finish scanning my text file. When I saw
the output of "file", I knew I was sadly mistaken about my
assumptions of text. And there appeared to be some binary
corruption in the file, like some clusters didn't get written
at some point. Once I edited out all the binary blunders with
a hex editor, grep began working again.
You've probably taken the picture with an Apple product :-)
The only Apple product I wanted was an Apple ][, from the EXIF, you'll see it's a Pixel5a
Another possibility is some kind of "automatic classifier"
on the website, has rejected the picture. For any number of reasons.
"You may include pictures, as long as they don't infringe third-party rights
and they follow our policies, including the Feedback misuse policy, the
Offensive materials policy, the Adult items policy, and the
Illegal explicit content policy."
Multiple images of stoneware chemists jars?
I read the Wiki on JFIF and can't see anything there that is an issue.
No evidence of a non-standard pixel setup (appears to be RGB24). Your edits did a nice
job of "cleaning" the smelly bits of the original file.
I could not find any mention of "segment length 16" and what the
significance of that is. I have a number of JPG pictures here
that don't have that field.
Paul wrote:
I read the Wiki on JFIF and can't see anything there that is an issue.
No evidence of a non-standard pixel setup (appears to be RGB24). Your
edits did a nice
job of "cleaning" the smelly bits of the original file.
I could not find any mention of "segment length 16" and what the
significance of that is. I have a number of JPG pictures here
that don't have that field.
My conclusion is that it's firefox, I can try later with a clean
profile, but I did already try with ublock and ghostery disabled.
Paul wrote:
I read the Wiki on JFIF and can't see anything there that is an issue.
No evidence of a non-standard pixel setup (appears to be RGB24). Your edits did a nice
job of "cleaning" the smelly bits of the original file.
I could not find any mention of "segment length 16" and what the
significance of that is. I have a number of JPG pictures here
that don't have that field.
My conclusion is that it's firefox, I can try later with a clean
profile, but I did already try with ublock and ghostery disabled.
Andy Burns wrote:
My conclusion is that it's firefox, I can try later with a clean
profile, but I did already try with ublock and ghostery disabled.
try the edge browser within the Sandbox app within Windows 10/11?
SH wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
My conclusion is that it's firefox, I can try later with a clean
profile, but I did already try with ublock and ghostery disabled.
try the edge browser within the Sandbox app within Windows 10/11?
It does work with Chrome, so I'd be surprised it it didn't work with Edge.
I think Firefox vs Chrome is reaching the same point that Netscape vs InternetExplorer got to, i.e very few websites bother testing with FF
now :-(
https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1365562
"That stripey pattern is characteristic of turning on privacy.resistFingerprinting -- it randomizes images extracted from an HTML canvas.
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
SH wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
My conclusion is that it's firefox, I can try later with a clean
profile, but I did already try with ublock and ghostery disabled.
try the edge browser within the Sandbox app within Windows 10/11?
It does work with Chrome, so I'd be surprised it it didn't work with Edge. >>
I think Firefox vs Chrome is reaching the same point that Netscape vs
InternetExplorer got to, i.e very few websites bother testing with FF
now :-(
https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1365562
"That stripey pattern is characteristic of turning on privacy.resistFingerprinting -- it randomizes images extracted from an HTML canvas.
To make an exception for sites you WANT to be able to do that, after the problem occurs, look for a new icon next to the lock icon in the address
bar. It should look a bit like a picture. Click that to manage the permission related to this feature. "
I have 'privacy.resistFingerprinting' turned off and ebay works. I turn it on and I upload a stripey picture, if I turn it off and upload the same picture I get the correct image.
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