Many of us older citizens are having problems sizing photos for attachments. Not knowing web programing I am wondering what is limiting  pixel size and would it be possible to increase for us older challenged members?  Sizing programs seem like they want ridiculous funds for service. 
Flatlander

My Motorola Android is without that feature.
Flatlander

Flatlander wrote on Sep 4^th, 2026 at 1:37pm:


It looks like on a Motorola you need to use Google Photos to do the resize

My phone needs a third party app to resize pixels. Most seem to run $10.00 to $20.00/ month which is nuts to just size maybe one or two photos. I might have to fire up my old desktop computer with Microsoft Paint and see if that will still work.
Flatlander

Back to original question, is there something that could be done in software so no sizing would be necessary?
Flatlander

The limit is 500kb in size not pixels.  I typically take the shot on my iPhone and email it large size to myself and open on my Mac in the Preview app.  Crop to the desires subject and resize to 144dpi and 5 to 9 inches wide depending on the subject.

KBs/pixels, Greek to me.

Test photo.

marlinguy wrote on Sep 4^th, 2026 at 3:44pm:


Ditto Imgur, agree 100%, but I go another 50% and post the pics directly with no link-ing. I dislike links, and having to click on links just to see a pic.

Size selection is a piece of cake.

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I think we're two old farts saying the same thing, Vall!

There is a 5th choice.

You can always send your pics to one of us to resize and post for you. 

I've done that more than a few times for folks here on the forum.

You are not alone my friend. The struggle is real. I desperately want to be able to post pictures and have tried in the past with dismal results. My daughter said she would show me but she is always busy and I hardly see her anymore. She is a prosecutor and just got off a murder trial where she was out of town and sequestered in a motel for two weeks. Always busy. I have had people who posted them for me in the past but I hate to ask anyone to do it.


JMH

That was not so hard, once you told me the size. Think I'll try again.

VERY nice old Ballard. Caliber?



JMH

If any of you are still running Windows 7 or Windows 10, you can go to Internet Archives and do a search for Windows Essential, open it up and just check the parts you want downloaded for free. Photo Gallery is what you need and it allows you to size pictures fairly easily. Go into organize pictures and your pictures will show up and then choose resize, it lets you choose large, medium, small Etc. Microsoft eliminated Photo Gallery from later editions of Windows 7 and didn't put it on Windows 10 and It PO'd a lot of people.

Tom: I have an Apple. I went to the photo with 2 fingers click on it. Click "edit with"  chose Color sync utility. Top RH corner is an icon that looks like 2 rectangles in a rectangle, click it and resize to 144 dpi.
That's what I did anyway. good luck.

Why this was different, I do not know. You can't exceed 500 KB. I did find a way to adjust that, put sure had to look. Don't know why it was different. 

Old Soldier, there are two parts to "size". The 252KB pic is great and it fits on the screen. The 447KB is also good but the size ratio is such that it is too long for the screen. If you control the pixel counts for height and length then the size will take care of itself. The pixel counts on the first image are such that the maximum height could be a few percent less to fit better and on the screen and the length could actually be about 10 percent more and still fit on the screen as long as the height was reduced proportionally. For a rule of thumb 600 to 700 is a good height and 800 to 900 a good width for a horizontal photo. You just have to make sure that it balances out.

You guys got me looking closer at my iPad.
I have always emailed myself photo to resize, if I need a quick picture resized, it auto resized when emailing.  

I don’t know why I had not seen the resize program built into it before.

Couple test photos of different sizes.  One is 800 wide the 1000.

It is actually working very fast for me.
Bob

Just checked and my iPhone 11 works the same as my iPad.
Bob

test 2