But these high-resolution pictures can take up a lot of storage space, which can be at a premium depending on the amount of storage you have available to you. If you don’t particularly need images with incredibly high resolutions, then follow our tutorial below and see how you can reduce the file size of the pictures you take with your camera.
How to Reduce File Size of Marshmallow Camera Images
The steps in this article were performed on a Samsung Galaxy On5 in the Android Marshmallow operating system. Note that lowering the file size of your pictures in this manner will also reduce their resolution. This will not affect any previous pictures that you have taken with the camera. Step 1: Open the Camera app.
Step 2: Touch the resolution button at the top of the screen. In the picture below it says 4:3 5.0M, but it may say something different on your phone if the current resolution setting is different.
Step 3: Tap the image resolution that you want to use. The lower the number in the parentheses, the smaller the file size and the smaller the resolution.
You can also take pictures of the screen on your Marshmallow phone. Find out how to take a screenshot in Android Marshmallow and start sharing images of your phone screen with your friends and family. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Read his full bio here.
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