raahc Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums I didn't find a tip in the search bar for this topic. I have a photo on my desktop computer, emailed it to myself, opened on my phone, downloaded an image resizer app, and the smallest I can get it to is 93 KB. The error msg says the photo should be 50 KB? TIA (thanks in advance) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skid Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 @raahc, There are members of this blog that can be (maybe are) professional photographers, but here is my 2 cents worth. I use a resizer app called Photo and Picture Resizer. The welcome picture above started as 4M. I then resized to the smallest choice which was 25% (although there is an option to put in your own size, pixels, etc). That brought it to 2M. I saved it and did it one more time which brought it to 49kb. That actually came out to 258 x 194. So try just resizing your original to those numbers. I probably made this way more complicated than need be. I'm sure someone else will chime in and provide some better help. Again, welcome to the forums! Tagging @JLMoran and @twangster raahc, Lovetocruise2002 and JohnK6404 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi there @raahc, welcome! I also had a lot of trouble getting my image to the required 50KB size. I have a regular image editor on my computer (Pixelmator) that I used for tinkering with the size, and found that I had to get the image to 149 x 149 before it was under the limit with max JPEG quality. If your app allows you to tinker with the JPEG quality slider at all, you can try using a lower quality setting; otherwise try cropping the image to a square format before scaling it down. If one round of resizing doesn't do the trick even after cropping the original photo and tinkering with the quality setting, then what @Skid suggested is where I'd go next -- shrink it as much as the app allows, save it as a new file on your phone, then open that file and continue shrinking until you get it to a size that falls below the threshold. Lovetocruise2002, tiny260, raahc and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 11 minutes ago, JLMoran said: If one round of resizing doesn't do the trick even after cropping the original photo and tinkering with the quality setting, then what @Skid suggested is where I'd go next -- shrink it as much as the app allows, save it as a new file on your phone, then open that file and continue shrinking until you get it to a size that falls below the threshold. After reading what you and @Skid did, I think that's what I did too. But I used an app on my phone called "Image Size". raahc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 This site is also pretty good at compression: https://imagecompressor.com/ raahc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raahc Posted August 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Skid said: @raahc, There are members of this blog that can be (maybe are) professional photographers, but here is my 2 cents worth. I use a resizer app called Photo and Picture Resizer. The welcome picture above started as 4M. I then resized to the smallest choice which was 25% (although there is an option to put in your own size, pixels, etc). That brought it to 2M. I saved it and did it one more time which brought it to 49kb. That actually came out to 258 x 194. So try just resizing your original to those numbers. I probably made this way more complicated than need be. I'm sure someone else will chime in and provide some better help. Again, welcome to the forums! Tagging @JLMoran and @twangster Thank you for the warm welcome! I find this forum very refreshing and quite different from others! Everyone is so friendly and respectful - awesome! I dl an app called photo resizer (I think in Canada, it might have a different name), tried it several times. It does ruin the image quality, but our little profile photo is the size of a dime, so it looks okay. Thanks for your help! 2 hours ago, JLMoran said: Hi there @raahc, welcome! I also had a lot of trouble getting my image to the required 50KB size. I have a regular image editor on my computer (Pixelmator) that I used for tinkering with the size, and found that I had to get the image to 149 x 149 before it was under the limit with max JPEG quality. If your app allows you to tinker with the JPEG quality slider at all, you can try using a lower quality setting; otherwise try cropping the image to a square format before scaling it down. If one round of resizing doesn't do the trick even after cropping the original photo and tinkering with the quality setting, then what @Skid suggested is where I'd go next -- shrink it as much as the app allows, save it as a new file on your phone, then open that file and continue shrinking until you get it to a size that falls below the threshold. I had to do it several times to get it down to 112 KB. Strange that it was accepted ...lol Thanks! 2 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: After reading what you and @Skid did, I think that's what I did too. But I used an app on my phone called "Image Size". I tried with that app too, thank you! 15 minutes ago, Matt said: This site is also pretty good at compression: https://imagecompressor.com/ I liked that website, it kept the image quality and was very easy to use. It stopped compressing at 177 KB and wouldn't resize anymore, but I bookmarked it for future use. Thank you! Skid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skid Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 @raahc , NICE AVATAR PICTURE! AshleyDillo and raahc 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Welcome, raahc ! raahc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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raahc Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 Awww, thanks everyone! Happy to be here! @Lovetocruise2002 - eh? LOL! Lovetocruise2002 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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