Attaching photos to posts

[WestDulwichFamily]

Apologies if I'm being dopey but when I try to attach a photo from my phone (a fairly basic Motorola smartphone) to a message on this forum, the photo is always far too large a file size. What do I need to do to take/attach photos that are the correct size? Thanks.

[Sue]

There are several websites where you can enter a photo and get it immediately reduced to the required size.

Can't remember the names offhand but a quick Google should bring them up.

Alternatively, any photo editing software would be able to do it, I think.

As you say, it's the file size which needs to be reduced, not the dimensions of the photo.

[Sue]

I just used wwww.iloveimg.com which was very quick and easy and automatically compressed my photo to the correct size for the ED Forum without my having to put the required size in.

If you had more than one photo to attach to one post, you would need to use another website though, as the photos would need to be compressed to a smaller size (but you could always attach one photo to each of the following posts)

I couldn't find the website I used to use :(

[WestDulwichFamily]

Thanks!

[ianr]

> I just used wwww.iloveimg.com which was

> very quick and easy

Too many wubbleyous: it's https://www.iloveimg.com.

Cropping can be useful if any of the image is superfluous. Resizing will probably be the your main stratagem. Bearing in mind that even a laptop screen may be only 1200 pixels wide, an image with sides of just a few hundred pixel will usually be adequate. For a free image editor to install on a home computer running Windows, I'd recommend https://www.irfanview.com.