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Can anyone please tell me how to reduce the size of the file for my pictures so that I can post them from my phone.

I don't know about phones generally, but I would say do a screenshot, then post that file.

Fish said:

I don't know about phones generally, but I would say do a screenshot, then post that file.

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Thank you but that did not work.

Campinman said:

Thank you but that did not work.

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If you are on facebook messenger, send them to me, and I will post them here.

Fish said:

If you are on facebook messenger, send them to me, and I will post them here.

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Hey thanks! How do I find you on messenger?

Campinman said:

Hey thanks! How do I find you on messenger?

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I just p.m.ed you my facebook page.

I'll just post them here.

Campinman said:

Can anyone please tell me how to reduce the size of the file for my pictures so that I can post them from my phone.

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PhotoScape if very easy to use and will do what you need. r

Try this red neck solution:
If you are taking a picture of a file, like a flat bastard file try using a smaller file or move your cell fone further away so the file will not be too large for the screen shot.
Or only take a picture of each half of the file.

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Just kidding. I'm just a redneck, not a nerd.

I would like to ask Administrator if they can do something to post pictures Easy.My neighbor was helping me once ,but that take 20 clicks not easy to remember for baby boomers.
I think that is why we don't see to many pictures.Thanks and Happy New Year.

upload them to an image host, and then paste the link in the URL box from where you would normally upload a picture

Campinman said:

Can anyone please tell me how to reduce the size of the file for my pictures so that I can post them from my phone.

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What I do is first move the files from phone/tablet to my desk top. You can do this via a USB cable. I have used a free picture program for about 20 years with no problems to view pics and crop them. Then I just save them and they are usually about 1/3 of their prior size. The program is called Xn View for windows.

The reducing the size is sorta dependent on what operating system and or if you are on a pad, phone or computer. I just went through this and it took a few searches before I found a way to do it. I basically had to save the photo as a pdf and then when saving the pdf, used an option that let me choose what size and what I wanted the picture saved as. The photo went from a 30 mb raw photo to a 5 mb jpg. This was done on a Mac, so Windows or Android machines will more than likely be different.

Like Wekjo just above I also use my laptop/desktop. I'm running a free program (irfanview) that I've had for well over 10 years. No spyware, no ads, it's run smoothly. It has way more features than I use but it's great for reducing photo size for posting on line and it also allows you to rotate a photo so you're not posting something upside down or sideways.
----> https://www.irfanview.com/
On my laptop I have "Phone Link". It's Microsoft, it's also free. It allows you to Bluetooth connect your phone to your computer so no cables needed. You can either download the photo from the Phone Link app to "downloads" and then attach it to your post and delete or save it to a folder as it's something you want to keep and attach it to your post from the folder location.
Irfanview would be used after after you download the photo to a location on your computer. In a lot of cases I save the original with a tag "LG" and then a second photo that has been reduced to the 640x480 ?? posting size with a suffix of "SM" The reason I save them both is the larger one is better for detail on a larger monitor screen and should I want to share the photo in the future I have one ready to go. Maybe it's just my OCD but it works for me.

Forest#2 said:

Try this red neck solution:
If you are taking a picture of a file, like a flat bastard file try using a smaller file or move your cell fone further away so the file will not be too large for the screen shot.

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LMAO! OK smart guy what if it's a standard mill file?

I have android. Downloaded RESIZE App. Easy to use and share resized pictures.

In your search engine type "compress jpg" or "compress png" or whatever file type your photos are. You'll get back lots of web sites that will do it for free. You upload the file to the website, tell it the level of compression that you need, and download the result.

Also, sometimes I have to email a photo to myself from my iPhone in order to copy it to my laptop. When I do that, the phone offers me several levels of compression to use for that transfer. Once it's done, I drag the compressed file from the email to my desktop.

There are many free apps available. I use apple. On iPhone and iPad I use “Resize”. Very easy. Open app, select photo and save to required mb count. Can crop and do a few other things as well. Android would have similar options. Saving photos such as pdf and converting will effect you image quality and May struggle when using certain file types like .png

My Motorola Android phone only takes giant photos with multi-megabit file sizes and large dimensions. It's easy & quick to shrink the file size and the dimensions on a Mac computer. (I don't have an iPhone or iPad, so I don't know if these work on them.)

If you happen to have a Mac available, the below methods work for jpg, png or any photo format. (Doesn't work on pdf) You can do one photo, or a bunch of them at once.

One Photo At A Time Method:
Copy the photo to the computer with a cable, e-mail or any of the seemingly endless methods.
Open the photo in Preview App.
Go to "Tools" in the Menu Bar, then click on "Adjust Size" in the list that will appear.
Choose any size, or make a custom size and save it by clicking "File-Save" or CMD-S (Hold Command Key and tap the S key)
You can also change perspective. (Example: If it was 1200 x 1400, you can make it 800 x 1400- or whatever you wish.)

The photo will temporarily look tiny on the screen, but close & re-open it to have it appear in a normal size window as though the photo was always your new size. You can keep it as a photo, export it to another format or save as pdf.

Multiple Photos At Simultaneously:
Put the ones you want to shrink in a folder on the Mac computer
Open the folder
Choose "File - Select All" or press CMD-A
Right-click any of the photos
Click "Open With" and choose "Preview"
In Preview, click "File - Select All" or press CMD-A
Go to "Tools" in the Menu Bar, then click on "Adjust Size" in the list that will appear.
Choose any size, or make a custom size and click File-Save or CMD-S.
The photos will temporarily look tiny on the screen, but close & re-open them to have them appear in a normal size window as though the photos were always your new size.

I hope this will be helpful to you or to someone else who reads this in solving this aggravating giant photo dilemma.

Paul

Use a picture compression app.

The big problem is he file format used in phones called RAW
it links all of the pixels to each other in order to reduce the write time so you get a nice sharp picture
When any web server sees a RAW file it sees it ab bing near 50 the actual pixel dimensions and rejects it a being too large
Even worse are the newer cameras that pretend to be really high resolution ( they cheat ) .
So the trick is to change the RESOLUTION not the dimensions
a lot of camera images will open in a photo editing app and have resolution way over 128 dpi, which is glossy magazine quality.
so the quick & easy way is to change the RESOLUTION to www screen standard of 72 dpi
This will make the fine small enough for the servers but it still may display on the screen 20" or bigger ( which is a PIA to view )
The best method is to resize & change the resolution and if you resize to 12" to 18" then that will fit comfortably on most computer screens
Setting the resolution to 72 dpi will reduce the file size to a couple of k
then the file type should be JPG, compression does not matter but if too low the image will pixelate when viewed
And the step so many people forget is to save the adjusted image , or export the adjusted image to change it while leaving the original untouched

I have painfully slow interent service. Years ago, I found and downloaded Image Resizer for Windows. It is an extension that adds to your menu for picures. Whenever I want to email a picture or a group of them, I right click on the picture and select the size. It works great and really reduces the file size while maintaining the picture clarity.

bertsmobile1 said:

The big problem is he file format used in phones called RAW

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Our Motorola G phone can't take RAW which is one reason that I have a "real" camera. My ZTE could not either. Nor can my wife's iPhone.

To shoot RAW with iPad & IPhone, you need certain versions (12 Pro & 13 Pro for iPhone). Some earlier ones can shoot with a 3rd party app, but none I've tried save well.

I suppose that one could root any Androidd phone & find an app. for RAW. I think the phone has to be 64 bit capable for non-pixelated results, but am not positive.

Paul

Campinman said:

Can anyone please tell me how to reduce the size of the file for my pictures so that I can post them from my phone.

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I had the same problem. Photo from my phone was ~4MB and was unpostable. Kept resizing it using Microsoft Photo. Would not post until photo size was less than 1MB, so I'm assuming 1MB is the limit. To resize in Microsoft Photo: dot-dot-dot menu -> select "Resize image" -> then move quality slider bar until size is shows less than 1MB.

Here is a FREE pic host site, You can size them to your needs etc..

https://postimages.org

I worked with professional photographers back when digital photography was in its infancy and we had 8 bit images, then 16 then 32 then 64
With every new camera that came out the pros, who had no understanding of digital at all would rush out & get the latest & greatest gear .I would cart around massive hard rives and studios had massive RAID arrays ( remember them ) to hold the gargantuan images and when the digital proofs came back the photographers used to wet themselves about their fantastic shots that the trade houses had corrected all of the "mistakes " for them.
Little did they know that back then all of the trade houses that did retouching with Adobe used either 4 bit or 8 bit images so their 64 bit images were down sized to 8 bit images, alterations made then converted back to 64 bit images , sent to prepress when again they were downsized to 8 bit images because the image setters were hard put handling 4 bit images then they would go off for separations again mostly 4 bit colour before going off to the press as a 120 dpi plate for the actual printing.

And the digital editing of movies was just as crazy as the Avid suites were again either 4 bit or 8 bit because computers just did not have the buss speeds or width to process massive images at the required frame rates with the processor speeds at that time .
I used to meet the planes at the airport on the tarmac ( those days are gone forever ) and slip the luggage handlers a couple of bottles of fine malt to get the eskies of Hollywoods finest loaded directly into the van then race over to At-Lab to have them digitised .
The 35 mm rolls took a full day per roll & the 70 mm 3 days then it was race the drives over to the avid studios for editing on the old Mac Quadra AV'a ( remember them ) .
The various cuts were loaded onto discs, & couriered back to Hollywood the they would run them in sync on their respective machines doing further edits before finally chopping & splicing the cellulose , heady days.
By the time we closed down I got to sit in on some edits watching 24 screens of both the movies & the various levels of managements , legals , publicity managers, producers directors etc etc while the different camera shots were edited real time via satellite links

Yes get off the phone and use a desktop. Open picture in paint. Change the size until it fits without scrolling up and down or side to side. Now save this file.
It will fit fine.
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