Managing Image Size – there are several ways to do this: Photoshop, Photopea, Windows, emailing your image at a lower resolution

Image cannot be over 4 MB  (4000 KB) to upload onto AP website

If you run into issues with your files being too large to upload to the AP website, refer to these techniques below.

 

Please note: in the tutorials, I say images cannot exceed 3MB.  AP has changed this to 4MB starting in 2023, so just know this when viewing the tutorial.

Additionally, this is an older version of Photoshop, so when I say “Save As” it is now “Save As Copy” on the current version when saving an image as a JPEG.

 

Tutorials

 

Photoshop Tutorial:

 

 

 

Here is a written tutorial using Photoshop to reduce the file size:

 

How to reduce file size using Photoshop

 

 

Photopea Tutorial:

 

 

 

Windows Tutorial:

What if a file size is file to over the limit (Windows)?

 

 

iPhone – email image Tutorial:

Get your image on your phone camera roll if it not already and email the image to yourself and do not choose actual size. The app tells you how much storage the different size files take up. Choose the largest one that does not exceed 4 MB (4000 KB). 

In this case the Large size would be good.  You don’t want to go too small for your file size.