# How to compress photo

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**Created:** [December 29, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-compress-photo/36448 "2021-12-29T06:51:31Z")\
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@biha there is no compressing of the uploaded image to glide possible, I’m afraid.

But if you are ok to store the image outside glide then you could use cloudinary and still use the image picker in glide to get hold of the users image.

I have done a similar thing as shown in this post

> [@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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