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Originally Posted by BillP

Aftermath-

Please explain how resize of attachments work. Because as far as I can tell, it does NOT.

It will make a thumbnail, but the original picture MUST be within the Attachments dimensions and byte size limits as set in the AdminCP.

You are correct. It does not resize the image. This hack has yet to be ported to 3.5.

Looking at this I think the following steps would be required to implement this:

1) hack requires possibly increasing your max upload setting php.ini depending where it is set.
2) Next you would have to take the uploaded image (without size or dimension limits) and check to see if it exceeds your set large image size (i.e. 800x600) and if so resize it to the max horizontal/vertical depending on the originals aspect ratio.
3) Next you create the thumbnail.
4) Finally you delete the original oversized image to clean up when done.

Andreas mentioned this could possibly be written as plugin or product but I have not had a chance to figure out how. If anybody wants to take a crack at it then definitely have at it. I don't want to waste time hardcoding it in a file if it can be simplified for others to install as product.