In preparation for being able to upload pictures to my blog and have them get processed and added to posts, I wanted a way to shrink photos. It’s likely my main source of pictures will be my phone and with ballooning megapixel counts those tend to be pretty hefty. I can delegate resizing to the server-side but I thought I might as well find a way to resize them device-side to save on bandwidth costs and prevent my tiny blog app from blowing up.

I found this guide on how to create a shortcut that’s available in the “Share” menu for photos, that resizes them to the desired size and saves the result to the photo album, with this I can resize photos to 800x600 (typically). I was able to reduce a file’s size from 4.5MB to 450KB in a moment. Quality is lower and detail is lost, for sure, but this is my personal blog that nobody cares about so I’m OK with it.