I am messaging personally new members about their photos almost daily.

In the ABS Board Guidelines: "For images within posts there are image posting size rules in effect to keep the image uploads at 1,000 x 1,000 pixels or less and under 500k in file size and for Galleryimages keep the image uploads at 600x480 pixels or less and under 50k in file size."

I hope nobody minds if I throw my two cents in this thread. It occurred to me that there are a lot of people who do not have a desktop computer and only use their phone. So I decided to try posting some pics directly from my phone using webresizer.com and another photo editing site, pixlr.com. the latter is my go to site for editing pics. Pixlr unlike webresizer, has a phone app. So it is slightly friendlier to the phone-only user.

Webresizer is easy enough to use on your phone, but if you want to save the resized photo, it stores it in your regular photo folder, so you have to search through the folder to find the right one. Pixlr saves your resized photo to a separate folder on your phone so it is slightly easier to retrieve when posting.

Here are two identical pictures. The original was taken with my phone and is 2.53MB and way too large for this forum. It also takes forever to upload a photo that size to FB, IG, etc. Using these two online (and free) websites, I easily reduced the photo without loosing any quality.

First up is the webresizer version

Next is the Pixlr version

I came back on my desktop to check the photos. The Pixlr photo is slightly larger than the other one too.