# How to decrease size of images uploaded on Google Drive **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 7, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251 "2023-04-07T09:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guirec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/guirec/32/57201_2.png) [@Guirec](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Guirec)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/1 "2023-04-07T09:09:55Z")
Hello, I’m developping an "inventory"app allowing the users to upload pictures using the “Image picker” component. The pictures are saved by Glide on Google Drive (url like [https://storage.googleapis.com/glide-prod.appspot.com/uploads-](https://storage.googleapis.com/glide-prod.appspot.com/uploads-)…). The problem is that pictures taken with iphones are high-resolution, and therefore very heavy. Which means a lot of time to upload, and then to download for visualisation. So I’m looking for a solution: 1. Ideal option: Is there a way to specify to Glide that the images must be uploaded in low-resolution ? 2. Or alternative option: how can the admin batch-resize all the pictures uploaded on Google Drive ? Thanks in advance for your answers ! ---
**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/2 "2023-04-07T09:41:49Z")
> [@Guirec](#): > > - Ideal option: Is there a way to specify to Glide that the images must be uploaded in low-resolution ? > - Or alternative option: how can the admin batch-resize all the pictures uploaded on Google Drive ? If you upload already taken pictures then you on the phone can choose size. But not natively on glide It is not recommended to store images in google drive. Sometimes they won’t work. Best option is to store images in glide but they will still be as large as uploaded. I have shown a post below where you use cloudinary as storage and where you can control the size of the image The app is not working as there are to many apps in the team > [@Photo-location - and images AUTO-UPLOADED to Cloudinary](https://community.glideapps.com/t/photo-location-and-images-auto-uploaded-to-cloudinary/26936): > > 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 … ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/3 "2023-04-07T11:36:21Z")
> [@Guirec](#): > > The pictures are saved by Glide on Google Drive Don’t confuse the terms. Files uploaded through the file and image pickers are uploaded to Glide’s Google storage, but it is NOT Google Drive. Google Drive and Google Storage are completely separate products. Glide does not save files to your personal Google Drive. ---
**Author:** ![Guirec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/guirec/32/57201_2.png) [@Guirec](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Guirec)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/4 "2023-04-07T12:51:50Z")
Thanks a lot for your answer, Krivo ! On my Cloudinary account, I’ve now created a folder, configured the “Auto upload mapping” and the “Upload presets”. I’m now expecting to see all my pictures previously uploaded on Glide (and not on Google Drive, thank you Jef for the correction) appear in my Cloudinary folder. But nothing happens… What else should I do to have my Glides pictures transfered automatically to my Cloudinary folder ? ---
**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/5 "2023-04-07T13:42:39Z")
@Guirec you have to access ie show the images in the glideapp before the images is taken to cloudinary. Have you done that? ---
**Author:** ![Guirec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/guirec/32/57201_2.png) [@Guirec](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Guirec)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/6 "2023-04-07T14:23:42Z")
> [@Krivo](#): > > you have to access ie show the images in the glideapp before the images is taken to cloudinary. Have you done that? No, that was indeed the problem. Thank you Krivo ! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-decrease-size-of-images-uploaded-on-google-drive/60251/7 "2023-04-08T14:24:21Z")
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