Forum photo and video sizes?

[jgordon]

Is it a bandwidth issue or something why photos or videos must be so small?  I have tried uploading photos that took with phone or videos of baits I have painted and always too big file?  What are you guys doing to scale them down then? 

[MN Fisher]

I think it's bandwidth - Glenn isn't independently wealthy and the sponsors only pitch in so much...so he's gotta cut some costs somewhere.

 

For me - re-size with either Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop...usually around 40% of original if taken with my phone or tablet.

[Scott F]

Photos taken or sent from an iPhone or iPad give you a choice of files sizes when you are getting ready to post them. Nothing else you need to do to resize. 

[CrankFate]

Email from phone to iPad works best, choose a small file size. Otherwise, Photoshop Mix for iOS. It’s free and easily reduces file size.

[jbsoonerfan]

I can't post a pic from my phone, I have to email it to myself and then save it so I can re-size it.

[slonezp]

1 hour ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I can't post a pic from my phone, I have to email it to myself and then save it so I can re-size it.

What works for me is I take a pic then take a screen shot of the pic and post the screen shot. It works more often than not.

[jbsoonerfan]

Just now, slonezp said:

What works for me is I take a pic then take a screen shot of the pic and post the screen shot. It works more often than not.

Thanks! I will try that sometime.

[jgordon]

Ahhh thanks for the help on this its just so frustrating at times so I will try those next time thank you very much. 

[Bankc]

I have an app called "Photo Compress" that I use to shrink down photos.  It's not real user friendly, but it is free if you don't mind ads.  

[Bird]

Take the pic then go to gallery and enlarge pic, hit save, done. 

Every pic I've posted, I've had to enlarge. 

[GRiver]

21 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I can't post a pic from my phone, I have to email it to myself and then save it so I can re-size it.

Same here

[BrianMDTX]

I used (used) to use Photobucket. Now I download my pics to Imgur (hidden, not public) and insert the link via the Other Media below. Simple and no resizing issues.