frustrated with the new photo submission system

• There's no maximum file size and they get resized automatically.  So you shouldn't have to resize them at all - I don't, I just load them straight off my camera at 6 meg.  I'm not sure what the issue is with your images and there's no way for me to find out without loading your pictures myself.  It's certainly not the file size that's causing the problem.
• I built a sort function so you can view the fish by the catch date:  click Sort by, choose Date, then choose ascending or descending.  This shows them in the order they were caught.
• You also do not have to scroll through the list of species to select one.  Just highlight the field and start typing and it will automatically jump ahead in the list.  This is pretty much standard for dropdown boxes anywhere on the web, and is MUCH quicker than typing in the whole species name.

Hope this helps!

It does take some getting used to, that is for sure.  I had some difficulty initially uploading photos to the contest as well as lifelist sections.  The problem I was having (and possibly the same for you?) is the physical dimensions of the photo.  Most, if not all, digital cameras and cellphone cameras, take photos larger than 1024 pixels in a particular dimension.  All I do is open the picture in Microsoft Paint, click Resize then Pixels, and enter 800 for the largest dimension.  The secondary dimension should automatically resize accordingly.  Then, save as fishname.jpg (or png, etc).  And upload.  Works everytime for me.  The restrictions on size (both physical file size, and photo dimensions) is necessary to limit how much the server has to hold. 

Here are the restrictions for the contest section, as listed on the contest page.

Files must be less than 24 MB.
Allowed file types: png gif jpg jpeg.
Images must be smaller than 1024x1024 pixels.

Hope this helps!

If it's bigger than 1024 it will automatically get resized down on the server.

You might be having a problem with the preview - you don't have to click "upload" to preview the image - just choose the image and click "Save" on the bottom of the page. 

So far I have just been submitting contest entries right from my phone - no resizing or anything is necessary.  Takes about 30 seconds to submit an entry, and I can do it right from the riverbank!  Now this is pretty slick, but obviously the quality of a photo taken with a phone leaves something to be desired.

I've had issues where I've had to shrink my pictures and then I've had days where it was auto shrunk for me *shrugs*

I like things the way they are though.

I've been re-sizing to 1000 px  - that way I avoid connect time outs and impatience, my connection here isn't blazing fast.

It's all been working smoothly for me.

If you're using a PC (and probably a Mac) you might want to try Picasa. Free software from google. It's a great way to keep your photos organized, but the best feature when it comes to things like species contest and lifelist entries is the simplicity of cropping and resizing photos.

When you crop or otherwise adjust a photo and then save it, Picasa saves the original and the altered one. That means you can undo everything an hour/day/month/year later.

One way that I got an error message was when I clicked save on my entry but hadn't clicked upload on the photo. I'd chosen the photo with the browse button, but forgot to click upload. Wrote whatever little info I wanted to add, clicked save and got an error. Could that be what was happening to you?