Automatically resize photos

I read that permies.com runs at a loss. I’m guessing some of the cost is from storage. I was uploading this morning and I noticed the image was 37MB. (Roughly the size of the hard drive in my first PC!)  Uploading from phone is super easy - changing the size isn’t. I’d have to log on to my desktop, get the image from the phone, export and then upload. Instead a simple piece of server side code could resize to a max of, say, 2400px and 70% jpeg quality. My 37MB file would end up less than 1MB without any noticeable loss. A bigger project would involve resizing and quality adjustments on historical image files.

Just a thought . . .

Maybe try https://bulkresizephotos.com/en
It's the one I use all the time.  Far quicker than doing it myself on the computer.  

r ranson wrote:Maybe try https://bulkresizephotos.com/en
It's the one I use all the time.  Far quicker than doing it myself on the computer.  

Great suggestion and I just ran the file through and it’s now less than 1MB. Worked ok on my phone except the image didn’t end up back in photos, it ended up in downloads which is also great because once I’ve uploaded I don’t want it in my photo app, it’s a duplicate of the original.

It does require a fair few steps and will work for the conscientious. A server side resize requires zero user compliance.

On PC, I open the photo in the viewer and then take a screen grab. Saving the screen grab bumps the resolution and file size down nicely. As a bonus, it also strips away all the phone metadata that's in a photo. Not sure how to do a screen grab directly on a phone though.

I can resize with a right click on my computer and choose the thumbnail size, usually less than 100 kb. I try various apps on the phone but they still come out pretty big. When I visit permie.com on a slow computer, I do notice large images take a longer time to load.

Thanks for that link to the resize images site, I marked in my favorites to look into later. Permies runs at a loss due to image sizes? I do too or would if I wasn't careful. We live in the boonies and use a verizon hotspot for internet. We get 15 gigs a month and it costs $10 bucks per gig if we go over so I have to be careful even viewing the site. I used to have a program called Fireworks that I used for all my image needs. I could do do anything I wanted with it but it was very old and Adobe bought out the company years ago and killed it. My copy died with my old computer. It was easy to crop, add layers, resize, batch process and everything I needed. A 10 mb file could easily be reduced to 100 kb. Losing it is why I haven't been posting nearly as many photos.

Now I've been experimenting with Photoshop Elements and a free one called Gimp, neither is as intuitive or easy to use as Fireworks was. They seem to both do what Fireworks but in many steps instead of just a few and batch processing is a nightmare.

How exactly does the https://bulkresizephotos.com/en site work? You upload the image and then download the result? That might not work for me as I'm still transmitting the giant file at least once.