How to post pictures to the forum..

[Steve G.]

  More testing, to find an easier path,

It’s Apple.  There is no easy path.

  I agree, it’s not easy. Well,,,it’s not hard, but there’s at least  12 steps needed per picture.

[Steve G.]

  Testing:

[Galactica]

Ya, not simple at all.  Even worse in your case.

I can email pics from my library to myself, shrinking the file size in the process.  Delete them from the library so I don’t get confused later.  Open the email and move the resized pics into the library and post them as normal from there. 

A really odd thing is that iPhone won’t allow you to resize a screenshot.

[Steve G.]

  James has sent me a different link and method which I'll try.
 Everything can be done on my iphone 12. Kinda clunky.
  The big issue is that once youve moved the picture you want to use from your 'photos' area, to 'save to files', and save it,,,,,go back to the files app, find the picture and just press your finger on it for a couple seconds, and a series of options pops up. Press "quick actions", and another box will pop up,,,,go to 'Convert Image", which then gives you the option to set the format to JPEG, PNG, or HEIF. Press JPEG, and another box will pop up giving you image size options,,,,,small, meduim, large, or original. the picture I'm attaching to this message is 103KB. I'm basically guessing and assuming that the 'medium' would be 1/2 the size of the original 103KB,,,,, and I'm wrong , it's 85KB. So Small is 24KB which is 240MB. So in this instance I'll have to send it in the 'small' designation. It would be nice if they had some kind of slide graph like the volume on a Youtube, that could see you slide the file size down to the very maximum that the forum can handle, like 249MB.

[Steve G.]

Test. 240mb.

[Galactica]

I still find it odd that your phone won’t let you resize the pics when you email them.  I’d heard of using the app you’re using.  But it’s an added complication I wasn’t willing to deal with so I just stopped posting pictures.  The I guess with a iPhone update, the resize option was reinstated.

[Steve G.]

  I’m gonna give that a try, emailing it to myself, and look around for a way to bring it down.

[Steve G.]

  Testing.

[Steve G.]

  So,,,what is ‘bigger’, a KB or an MB??

[Fatkid]

1 MB equals 1000 KB

[Steve G.]

Cool!