I am trying to make a products picture database.

To make things as easy as possible, the preferred procedure would be to simply right click the image in a browser, go to the right container field and paste.

But the image size gets really bloated:

As an example, I copy a jpg-image that the browser says should be 86 kb. But when I paste it into the container field, ithe actual size shows as 209 kb (Length(container_field)/1024).

If I then export the field content, the exported image file shows as 196 kb.

If I, on the other hand, import the jpg-image to my computer, and then inserts it into the container field, the size shows as 86 kb in Filemaker.

I was hoping to not have to download the image and then have to find it in Filemaker, the simple copy-paste was a main reason for creating this database in Filemaker.

Is there a reason the image size gets so big when pasted directly from the clipboard?

Is there a reason the image size gets so big when pasted directly from the clipboard?

Yes, though it's not the image size that's different - it's the file size. When you copy the image in a browser, the clipboard contains the full, uncompressed image. OTOH, when you download and insert the JPG file, you are dealing with the compressed image file.