How to Reduce Photo Sizes for Blogs

Have you uploaded photos to your blog and after a number of months, received a notice from your web hosting provider that the disk space for your hosting package was reaching the allotted disk space limit?

One reason that the storage space is being used up quickly may be due to not optimizing photos for the web before uploading them to the server. If you have a Windows PC, you may not need expensive photo editing software to optimize photos and reduce the photo sizes. The following is a visual tutorial to help you reduce photo sizes for a blog.

In this tutorial, we will start with a 1.19 MB photo and reduce it to 84.9 KB. Note: 1024 Kilobytes (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)

Step One

Locate the photo on your computer that you would like to optimize, highlight it and right click. You will see the programs on your computer that you are able to open the photo with. Choose and click: Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Step Two

Once the photo is opened in Microsoft Office Picture Manager, locate “Edit Pictures” in the top navigation. The photo in our example below is 3072 pixels wide by 2039 pixels in height and “weighs” 1.19 MB.

Step Three

The Edit Pictures column will open at the right. Locate “Change picture size” and then: Resize or Compress Pictures.

In our example, we will select “Resize” in order to determine the exact dimensions for the resizing.

Step Four

Next, select the dimension of the photo that you would like. For this example, we have chosen: Web – Large (640 x 480 px).

Step Five

The photo has been resized to 640 x 425 pixels in the example below. Next, choose File – Save As… in the top navigation to save the resized photo on your computer. The new optimized photo is 84.9 KB and is ready to upload to your blog.

By using Microsoft Office Picture Manager with the simple steps above, you will be able to reduce the size of a photo before uploading it to your blog and ultimately save web hosting disk space.

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