I have been seeing this a lot lately. People uploading pictures straight from the pc or phone. A Lot of times these pictures are raw or pretty close to raw size. This not only impacts the amount of time it takes to upload the picture (and data) but it can make browsing pictures for others very painful. For instance you can go from having to transfer a 7-10 megabyte file down to a 700k file. That's like 90% less data. And this is not affecting picture size or what you see at all. The picture is still big (1920x1080). Think of it as removing the "stuff" your eyes cant see anyways, like what mp3 files did for music sizes. The other thing too is that pictures are not something that is easily "zipped". Or shrunk down in size. This is mainly a server size issue when paying for online forum storage and it also makes backups take way way longer. So here's my suggestion to make life easier for you (uploading), your friends (downloaders), and @flitetest (server payer).
Now there are lots of different ways to do this. For instance if you like to edit your pictures in another program first you can probably just export it do a different size. I usually don't adjust my pictures, i just upload them and so in my opinion the way i am showing is one of the easiest and fastest.
The program i use is here, its a free download: https://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/
Once installed you simply select the pictures you want. It could be one or an entire folder. You can even select videos if you dont want to go thru and just grab pictures and it will just ignore the videos and keep going. (I actually use this on my google drive for pictures that are backed up from my phone. It saves me space in my gdrive). Than you just right click and choose "resize"
Here's the settings i use. I like it to replace my pictures with the new ones. But thats just a setting if you want to save your original photos. You can also setup a custom size if you want and adjust the quality level in the advanced tab. I have mine set at 75%.
As an example i grabbed a large 8mb picture from the forums and "resized" it.
That's a pretty dramatic size reduction. Here is that resized picture posted full size so you can click on it and see for yourself the quality.
click on the picture to see the 1080 version.
So once its installed the resizer is super quick and easy. Its amazing how much faster you can click thru pictures once they are resized.
My future browsing self thanks you for resizing
Now there are lots of different ways to do this. For instance if you like to edit your pictures in another program first you can probably just export it do a different size. I usually don't adjust my pictures, i just upload them and so in my opinion the way i am showing is one of the easiest and fastest.
The program i use is here, its a free download: https://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/
Once installed you simply select the pictures you want. It could be one or an entire folder. You can even select videos if you dont want to go thru and just grab pictures and it will just ignore the videos and keep going. (I actually use this on my google drive for pictures that are backed up from my phone. It saves me space in my gdrive). Than you just right click and choose "resize"
Here's the settings i use. I like it to replace my pictures with the new ones. But thats just a setting if you want to save your original photos. You can also setup a custom size if you want and adjust the quality level in the advanced tab. I have mine set at 75%.
As an example i grabbed a large 8mb picture from the forums and "resized" it.
That's a pretty dramatic size reduction. Here is that resized picture posted full size so you can click on it and see for yourself the quality.
click on the picture to see the 1080 version.
So once its installed the resizer is super quick and easy. Its amazing how much faster you can click thru pictures once they are resized.
My future browsing self thanks you for resizing
