Why are my pictures to big to export?

[dshall]

Why are my pictures to big to export?

 

I take a camera view andI want to export

 

 

 

and this is the message I get

 

 

 

 

does anybody know what is going on?  I have been doing this for years (I think) and now with the new Mac I get this.

 

[dshall]

2 minutes ago, solver said:

Did you notice the size of the image? 402,625 MB 

Yes,  why is it so big?  How do I control the size?  

 

This is something I never had an issue with until I got the new Mac.

 

So what is controlling the size?

 

thanks Eric.

[SHCanada2]

curious. what happens when you click the "check knowledgebase" button

[Alaskan_Son]

I have no answer for you, but I wonder if it has anything to do with this...

[dshall]

Hi Michael,  (num4,num4) is the hot key to export the pic.

 

(for whatever reason,  I have never had much luck with the knowledge base button)

 

I never had this issue with the old Mac,  I wonder if there is a setting somewhere that defines the number of pixels for the reported pic?

 

[Dermot]

What did you type into the Export Picture dialog?

 

The size of an image is the number of pixels (width x height) multiplied by the number of bytes per pixel (4).  

 

I'm guessing you typed in some pretty big numbers.

 

[dshall]

Hi Dermot,

I didn't type in any number,  I never have.  I have left it as is. It is OOB.

 

Maybe that is the issue,  I need to change what the default setting is.

 

[dshall]

I checked the USE ACTIVE WINDOW SIZE box and I think it now works....  probably my bad......

 

[dshall]

Yep,  big difference,  thanks all.

 

[Gawdzira]

38 minutes ago, dshall said:

Hi Dermot,

I didn't type in any number,  I never have.  I have left it as is. It is OOB.

 

Maybe that is the issue,  I need to change what the default setting is.

 

Pixel Hog. That is, like, all the pixels.