{"id":8051,"date":"2025-08-26T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:59:53","slug":"optimize-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/optimize-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimize Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duplicate the image you are using, save the original if you need it and shrink the copy. You can shrink an image by 1) reducing its size (in pixels) \u00a0and also its resolution (in px\/in).<\/p>\n<p>Rename the copy to a name you can find easily in the Media Library (that includes your name, like &#8220;joline_project1_1&#8221;), then open it in \u00a0Preview on mac (or similar software on PC).<\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Adjust Size<\/strong> from the Tool Menu:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8052 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize1-1200x950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize1-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize1-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize1.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then with <strong>both blue boxes clicked<\/strong>, and the dropdown next to width &amp; height set to &#8220;pixels&#8221;, set the largest edge of your image to <strong>1024 px<\/strong> (the other will change automatically and in proportion), or if the image needs to be even smaller 800 px. \u00a0Make sure the resolution is set to<strong> 72 pixels\/in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8053\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize2.png 848w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize2-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/optimize2-768x706.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Save image&#8211;it is now ready to upload to your post if it is smaller than 500 KB. The example above went from 2.4 MB to 257 KB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duplicate the image you are using, save the original if you need it and shrink the copy. You can shrink an image by 1) reducing its size (in pixels) \u00a0and also its resolution (in px\/in). Rename the copy to a name you can find easily in the Media Library (that includes your name, like &#8220;joline_project1_1&#8221;), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}