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?

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    20·
    9 months ago

    5+ MB sounds like a PNG or the like. Open in photo editor and save as jpg. That should fix it.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      9 months ago

      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

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        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 :)

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
        5·
        9 months ago

        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.).

      • solrize@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Png to jpg should be more like 5x compression but maybe something else was going on. Anyway it sounds like the immediate is handled.