I'm trying to share an attachment from an excel sheet to help provide a lot of stats on treble hook weights. Since I could not share the raw excel sheet, I went with a PNG file, but when I open that file in the actually final post, it's rather blurry. Does anyone have any advice for providing a better quality attachment? Thanks, John

Expand the sheet to show only what you want to copy/paste. Increase the font size. Take a snapshot, then shrink to fit BR's size limit. This is from my spreadsheet showing my lineup for 2026

It's still going to be a little blurry - but that's just the drawback of screenshooting other files.

Thanks - much appreciated. Makes sense. Unfortunately, I have the extra challenge in that my spreadsheet is just a little too large for this process. Oh well. He's the sheet I'm talking about.

Or use the snippet tool

Expand doc selection, snippet and embed in the post

This is just my opinion, but I don't upload and host photos on this site because the memory limitations are too strict at 1000kb. This causes image sizes to be reduced quite a bit, and image resolution deteriorates along with it.

But to post images here by uploading and storing them here on this website I post these instructions found here:

I can't post a picture. It says the size is too large.
You need to use a photo editing program like Adobe Photoshop, or whatever your computer comes with, and go to resize image. You may want to crop it for your avatar. Once you do that you can post any picture.

You can also use Pic Resize (https://picresize.com/)  You just need to locate the picture on your PC, and it's simple from there.

For mobile devices, get the app Image Shrink Lite for Android and iOS.

The pictures I post are sideways
Upload them to the Gallery. You can then turn them, and embed them in your posts, or use them as your avatar"

There is another way to embed images that I think works better in terms of being forum friendly in use an results. Its called third party hosting of images.

Simply open an account with any well known image hosting website and upload your images there. Then to post an image on this forum simply copy the URL address link to that image and post it into a comment here on the forum.

The forum will link it in automatically, and even automatically resize it to fit perfectly in comment section.

Doing it this way means that members can keep the image files large enough to be seen clearly without having to do any sort of image reduction efforts.

If you click on your reduced image stored on this site, you can see the limitations are blurring the image data. Move to third party hosting and click on a linked in file and it redirects you to the original file size for enlarging if needed.

I use cubeupload for all of the images I post here on the forum. Works great!

This is somewhat of a rock-and-a-hard-place situation for us. BassResource isn’t designed to function as an image-hosting service, so we simply don’t have the storage capacity to support unlimited uncompressed image uploads. Large file sizes also create significantly longer load and download times, which can negatively impact the experience for other members.

At the same time, relying on third-party hosting services for large images can create its own set of issues. When members upload very large externally hosted files, it forces others to download unnecessarily large images just to view a post, which can be frustrating.

There are also long-term reliability concerns. In the past, we’ve seen members’ third-party hosting accounts lapse, which leaves broken images scattered throughout older threads. Similarly, some hosting platforms have shut down entirely or switched to subscription models for viewing images. When that happens, posts across the forum end up filled with missing images, which diminishes the value of those discussions for everyone.

Because of these factors, I’m generally not in favor of using third-party image hosting services. However, allowing unlimited uncompressed image uploads on our servers isn’t feasible either.

That is why I recommend resizing them at https://picresize.com/ If you're running into size restrictions. It can reduce the filesize with minimal impacts image quality - for free. You can download it and then post it here.

Another way to do it, retaining the size/readability and not taking up any of @Glenn 's precious drive space

Create a new document

Copy the one page from the old document to the new one

Save the new document to Google-Drive

Set the security to 'Any one with the link can view'

Get the share link

Post the link here.

Everyone gets a very readable view and can download the file if they want, and doesn't use more BR Server space than any other non-picture message.

18 hours ago, Hartwood71 said:

Thanks - much appreciated. Makes sense. Unfortunately, I have the extra challenge in that my spreadsheet is just a little too large for this process. Oh well. He's the sheet I'm talking about.

For simplicity sake... I like making the sheet larger along with the the snippet idea.

Also you could take smaller snips. It would require more posts but maybe that would allow posting the whole thing clearly.

Alternately I think if you use the attachment icon it will be downloadable and if people are really interested they can have their own copy.

Also what Glenn said cause like he's the site guy!

Thanks fellas. Helpful. @Glenn I totally hear you on the "rick-and-a-hard place". As @FloridaFishinFool and @MN Fisher also mentioned, I think the URL and attachment icon routes are the solution for any 'larger' images or spreadsheets.