Mar 1, 2025
Tips and Tricks for City-Cost images
Are you like me, relying on a mobile device for your photography? I shoot with an iPad Mini 4, now a vintage item! I can't update it to the latest version of iPadOS, but I still get a lot of use out of it. How do you shoot your photos? What photo apps or processing do you use? Have you got tips or tricks on how to shoot or edit the photos you use in blogs?
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on Mar 1
The issue I often have is the size -- I find that sometimes my image files from my phone are too big to upload, so I have to crop or resize them. For that, I use https://imageresizer.com/ which is quick, easy, and free. A lot of the photos I use on my blogs (especially ones that need more generic images) are ones of scenery/favorite destinations here that I have already uploaded to my social media accounts, and those are already compressed in size a bit from the originals. After the changes to the site and not being able to use CC images anymore, sometimes I make my own header images via Canva when I don't have an image that fits the theme well (e.g. sometimes I like to share interesting expat news articles, and I don't always have an image that fits what I want to write about).
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on Mar 2
@genkidesu I'm running into the same issue as you and also resorting to Canva to create original images. Some of the images I use are original photos edited with Lunapic, transforming them into illustrations. Did you notice one of my reviews has a photo of the product with no background? Background removers or blurs have improved a lot. The product really stands out.
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on Mar 25
Following with interest! Even on Instagram, I don't really edit photos anymore. I just don't have time. But sometimes I will edit when absolutely necessary. I use Google Photos which automatically reduces the file sizes, so photos that I take with my phone most often don't need to be resized for City-cost, they're normally around 2mb only. If I have to resize them, I just use Google photos.
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