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?
Depending on your phone you might have an image resizer built into your photo gallery. Having said that, there’s always imagemagick.
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.
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.
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
Open the camera - select your photo - select edit (pencil ) - select 3 dots - select resize - choose smaller size
