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?
I hear xz utils is pretty good
Too soon lol
I’ve been using Image Shrink on Android for the better part of a decade. It works flawlessly for exactly this situation.
I set the resize options to maximum dimension of 1600px.
Then the workflow is share from any app (like the Gallery) to Image Shrink, it resizes the photo(s), then reopens the share prompt to share on to wherever you’re trying to send them (like an email client).
You can also choose Image Shrink in the file picker to do it in reverse - select the files in the app you want, and they get resized on the way in.
Just realised I’ve probably bought that app at some point - no idea what it costs since Google doesn’t show that information once you own it.
There’s a free version which likely has done restrictions but probably still does exactly what you require:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.anolivetree.imageshrinklite
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
Btw, media formats are not really compressible (e.g. zip, 7z, gz, etc.), because they are already compressed by specialized algorithms (png, jpg, avif, etc.).
Dear OP, please edit the post title and insert [Solved] to prevent a 1000 more answers in the coming 5 years in this thread (and in the new comments time line), thank you :)
5MB? What is this? Employment for ants?
Depending on your phone you might have an image resizer built into your photo gallery. Having said that, there’s always imagemagick.
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
