Image size and rescaling

My camera is set to take fairly large images, usually 3-4MB. I’ve been rescaling them before posting, down to around 700KB. Is this necessary? Does Discourse automatically scale down image when I upload them?

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I don’t think you need to. The image I uploaded is 4272x2848 and the file size is 7.5Mb. The forum stores the image at 1920x1280 at 260Kb. The resizing/ rescaling is automatic.

For example, in this case, the system rescaled your image and stored it at 223kb.

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Cool, thanks. That halibut photo is one I forgot to scale, and on my disk it’s 3.8MB. One less step to worry about.

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