I have to submit a document for employment and they want my passport but my passport photo is 5.49 MB and they say you can’t upload anything more than 5 MB. How can I shrink that file on my android phone without paying some service?
5MB? What is this? Employment for ants?
5+ MB sounds like a PNG or the like. Open in photo editor and save as jpg. That should fix it.
Thank you! I don’t have exactly the option but you put me in the right direction and I figured it out. Thank you!! got it down to 4.79 MB
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Do’h! ok done 😁
Png to jpg should be more like 5x compression but maybe something else was going on. Anyway it sounds like the immediate is handled.
You’re looking for something to export the image at a lower resolution (resize) rather than something to compress the image. Any open source gallery/image editing app should be able to do this.
One example would be “image toolbox” on FDroid. I’ve not used it but it seems to have the feature you need
I guess you can install termux and in termux install imagemagick. Then use the mogrify tool from imagemagick to lower the image resolution. For example (Make sure to make a backup!) :
mogrify -geometry 800x600 photo.jpgYou can also use ffmpeg if you’re familiar with it.
Any photo editor will do. Just load it in and export as JPEG or smaller resolution.
On f-droid:
Pocket Paint is crashy for me, but it gets the job done.
Imagepipe has a bit clunky interface but just to load and export it works fine. Its primary advertised purpose is to remove metadata from photos, so not a bad thing to have on hand anyway.
Open the camera - select your photo - select edit (pencil ) - select 3 dots - select resize - choose smaller size
Depending on your phone you might have an image resizer built into your photo gallery. Having said that, there’s always imagemagick.
