Posting pictures, this is a problem post

[bucknaway]

I'm working with an android phone that I use to take pictures. The pictures I take are too big to load in this forum. It use to be that I could use my pc to convert them, but now I have a chromebook laptop in place of a pc. How are some of you solving this problem?

[Bob]

A bit confused as to why you're asking that question (given you obviously know how to re-size photos as you had some kind of photo editor on your prior pc).  Your chromebook laptop does have a basic image editor (look in the Files app) but other apps have to be available somewhere.

[bucknaway]

I know I can go to tinypic.com and let them do the work but I was hoping for an easier solution.

[kokopelli]

bucknaway, I also use a chromebook. I assume you can download the photos to it?  In the downloads there is an edit feature (looks like a pencil). If you click on that, at the bottom of the page, there will be some edit features, one of which is a "resize" .  Click on that.

 

I recently used this feature to resize a photo to post on a forum.

[bucknaway]

Thanks, I'll give it a try when I get home.

[Guest]

I'm working with an android phone that I use to take pictures.

The solution to oversized photos is:

Go to the google play store, type something like "photo editor" or "photo resizer" into the box & hit search.

Pick one that is free & with at least a 4.0 customer rating.

Download & install on your phone.

 

You cab also reduce resolution in the camera app, but since most of us want to keep high resolution copies, this is not a good choice.

[Vessey]

I use 'paint' on my laptop (dont know its proper description), but I do a photo at a time. Yes its a bit laborious, but in addition to resizing I can also trim them etc. 

 

Its very basic compared to some of the clever stuff available today but it works for me.

[anddy]

Simple solution without need for any app or for laptop or any other device at all:

on your phone, simply view the photo in question, then make a screenshot of it. The resulting screenshot will be a MUCH smaller file. I just did the same trick (incidentally to post a picture here as well). The original photo was over 3MB, the screenshot only 300kb.