# Automated compression of user uploaded images

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@biha are you referring to image size when using the image? Then look in the cloudinary cook book. You can eg specify quality and width of image which can shrink the image quite a lot.

> **[Cloudinary Cookbook](https://cloudinary.com/cookbook)**
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> Recipes demonstrating cloud-based image and video manipulation and upload using Cloudinary. Sample image and video manipulation URLs and code snippets from multiple frameworks.

It is also possible to do similar thing when uploading images to cloudinary. If you are using auto upload like described in below post then you need to specify the transformation you want in the preset. Thereby you can make the uploaded image stored in cloudinary smaller

> [@Photo-location - and images AUTO-UPLOADED to Cloudinary](https://community.glideapps.com/t/photo-location-and-images-auto-uploaded-to-cloudinary/26936):
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> Main features Upload a photo to Glide and mark it with a location Auto-upload the photos to Cloudinary Resizing and other maniputations of the photo uploaded to Cloudinary Remove the photo from Glide View all the photos uploaded - and directly sourced from Cloudinary account Photo and location saved to both Glide Table and Google Sheets Idea Photo and location is inputted to the glide table “Input…” and data are copied to “Registrations” Photo and location is then cleared from …

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