Issue with uploading image on resizeyourimage.com

You crop your image using your mobile or computer before you upload it. Here's a pic I uploaded recently, well the link:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45952/440035/?ba=Bitterbill#review

 

It depends on which program you are using, but you can usually uncheck “Maintain aspect ratio” to not “warp” the picture. I think that’s what it’s called in Photoshop. In The Gimp, it’s “Keep Aspect Ratio.” Which you would uncheck before resizing.

 

On further thought, I have never used it on my laptop so there might be better options, already mentioned, for PCs and laptops.

 

OK

 

Sorry, was at the rec. center. I was just conceding your point.

 

Most mobiles have a built in photo editor and that's what I use to crop images.

 

This isn't a specific response to your post, just using it as a jumping-off point.
Step 1: Crop to 1x2 ratio (ignore the pixel count except for the ratio of width to height),
Step 2: Resize to 150x300 with maintain aspect ratio checked and quality set to get below 20Mb file size.

 

I use Photoshop Elements for color and contrast, etc., corrections, and for cropping and resizing when I upload to Imgur for forums.

However, for the beer database, I have never been successful in getting an image down to the super-restrictive file size while maintaining reasonably good quality using PE. You can see what I mean if you come across my older photo uploads.

Lately, I been using PE for any color, etc. corrections, and to crop to the 1x2 aspect ratio. Then I use an application called FastStone Photo Resizer to reduce it to 150x300 and less than their file size limit. For whatever reason, it does a much better job of maintaining quality than PE does. All of this is Win10. I don't have the patience to do photo editing on smartphone apps.

 

@Snowcrash000 ...The last beer database pic I uploaded started life at 4864x2736 pixels:


I first cropped it to 900x1800 pixels using Photoshop Elements. This is a crop only. No image size reduction. (Plus, if you look carefully, a little color correction.)


Then, I reduced it to 150x300, 19.2KB using FastStone. I uploaded this pic to the data base:


Check out the result here: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/417/453198/

 

The version of Photoshop Elements I have shows the pixel dimensions when using the crop tool. You drag the crop tool sides while the dimensions are displayed. You don't actually enter them directly.

The older version of Photoshop Elements did not do this, so I eyeballed it and then checked the dimensions, and made successive small corrections until I got the aspect ratio I wanted. Slow and cumbersome, but it worked.

 

I've been trying to resize a pic of Hop Harvest Haze for some time using the two tools Todd suggested to no avail. I finally managed to resize to 150x300 using Windows 10 photos like mikeinportc suggested. When I uploaded pic, it said upload was successful. So where is the pic? At this point, I've decided contributing to BA is more of a pain-in-the-ass then it's worth.