How to downsize pic to 1 MB?

[Monte Masterson]

I’m already technology challenged as it is. When I went to upload a pic it said: “Image must be less than 1 MB”. Help please!

[Greg Mihalik]

PC or Mac?

Open a graphics/viewer/photo application and look in the menus for “Resize”.

On a mac I use Preview, and find “Adjust Size” under Tools.

[Jerry Adams]

On a PC I use “paint” that comes already installed

Be prepared to be ridiculed for using such a crude tool though

Maybe you can just click “save as” and it will reduce it enough.  I always choose a new name with “resized” appended to the original file name.  Maybe you have to click “resize”.  reduce maybe 50% in both axes.

[Monte Masterson]

I have a PC. Thanks guys, I’ll give it a try.

[Monte Masterson]

Thank again Greg and Jerry. Success!  I just clicked on Edit and then Resize and lowered the number of pixels to get the pics small enough to upload.

[Ken Thompson]

Thanks from me too. Didn’t realize the resizing was done with resolution adjustment.

[Monte Masterson]

I think the photos can also be downsized with the Percentage adjustment, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it that way. Maybe the pics would be sharper with the Percentage technique, however they’re clear enough for my purposes.

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