Share an Image over 10MB

Question

I have a family tree, hand drawn by Watson-4798 on tracing paper about 1.2m x 0.5m!  I have succeeded in scanning it (long story) and the resulting jpg is 75MB. The writing is small and in parts very faded. With the 75MB file it is possible to zoom in and read everything. Is there a (free) way that I can share this?  Obviously it is too big for WT to handle, perhaps there is another site I could link it from? I could share it from Flickr but this would rely on my ongoing subscription.  Any suggestions welcome!  Thanks everyone.

Answer 1

Do you have a Google account? Maybe you could share it from Google Photos?

Answer 2

I know it's not desirable, but if you could break it up into pieces (I was thinking 9 pieces - 3 across, 3 up-and-down) it's possible that each piece would be less than 10 MB. Then you could have upper right, upper middle, upper left, middle right, etc. You could have a smaller low resolution index page to use as a guide.

Comments

Chris, Scott's idea is a good one, but there might be a better solution for you because jpg files use compression algorithms to make the file size smaller with hardly noticeable loss of image quality.  Some of the graphic editing programs permit you to select the compression level when you save a jpg file.  I don't know what level your current large file is, but if it's not much, you could try increasing the compression level and see if you can get it small enough to upload here without losing ability to zoom in on the detail.  Even if you can't get it small enough to use as-is, if you can shrink it enough to have to split it into fewer pieces using Scott's method, it would probably be worth doing.

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Just flicking though some old questions, I see that never thanked everyone for their replies here. Thank you all!  Gaile your proposed solution worked perfectly.  Thank you!  The uploaded image is here:

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Ronald_Watson_Collection-9