Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
Granted, more time-intensive, but I still prefer to do it manually.I just upload them to a free image compression site, it takes seconds.
This site could do it themselves
But yeah it takes up cpu and data, it might be on the to do list.
My picture climbing the hill was reduced to 80kb and still looks OK for a forum
1. Send selected copies to a "copies" folder.
2. Crop each copy as much as possible first.
3. Then reduce resolution as little as possible to get below 2.0 MB.
4. Upload in one batch.
5. Delete all but the copies I might reuse.
The workflow isn't bad in the Samsung photo editor on my Android, and I'm getting faster at it. The resulting files are typically in the 1.50-1.95 MB range but still look good.
Like the pros say, a judicious crop can be the difference between a good photo and a great one. Better yet, the crop is sometimes enough to get under the size limit at full res.