Title: photo sizing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# photo sizing

 *  [mkuhnell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkuhnell/)
 * (@mkuhnell)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-sizing/)
 * I’ve noticed that the quality of the images inserted in posts is not good–dull
   colors and slight blur. When clicked and viewed in a lightbox, they look great.
 * Example: [http://theslowroad.org/wp/blog/back-to-the-middle-ages/#/](http://theslowroad.org/wp/blog/back-to-the-middle-ages/#/)
 * I know this is somehow related to phtot resizing, but I don’t quite understand.
   I don’t want the images to be huge, so I guess I can’t use the full size versions.
   Or is it better to resize the images myself before uploading? Apologies–I’m finding
   the whole photo sizing and thumbnails thing to be confusing with wordpress.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-sizing/#post-5147839)
 * It is absolutely better to resize images before uploading. Not only does it save
   upload time and space, you have better control over image quality.
 * Most modern cameras will produce images whose size is in the megabyte range. 
   Many web developers recommend images with a size less than 50Kb. In other words,
   images straight from the camera can easily be 80 times too large.
 * So, what do you do? There are a lot of tools available to resize images. Any 
   version of Photoshop will work, as will [Gimp](http://www.gimp.org/), the free
   Open Source image manipulation program.
 * One handy program I use is [RIOT](http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/). It does not
   offer image quality editing, but otherwise does a good job.
 * Here is an article with a download link for a document that I give to new site
   owners: [http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2014/08/08/photo-basics/](http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2014/08/08/photo-basics/)

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