# What is best way to manage photos
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133 "2020-11-30T08:46:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Mns\_Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mns_Glide)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/1 "2020-11-30T08:46:24Z")
Hi,
In my APP, I plan to allow users to share their photos and would like some suggestions on he best way to do this
1. in the Pro APP we are allowed 10GB of space…is there an option to pay for additional space and what is the cost like?
2. using the image picker component, is there a way to limit the file size?
3. is there a way to integrate a photo compression when the user upload the image?
Much appreciated your suggestions.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/2 "2020-11-30T09:48:45Z")
> [@Upload image to Cloudinary from within Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/t/upload-image-to-cloudinary-from-within-glide/11204/):
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> Cloudinary as image store for uploaded images URL [https://uploadtocloudinary.glideapp.io/](https://uploadtocloudinary.glideapp.io/) The app is copyable The app is using my personal Cloudinary account - so please keep uploads in the app low - and use your own Cloudinary account if you are going to do exploration of cloudinary Background Glide has an image upload functionality where the images are uploaded to Glide. Unfortunatly, these images are out of control from us as app developers. This means that we cannot delete…
This is the closest workaround we have right now.
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### Author:  [@Mns\_Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mns_Glide)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/3 "2020-11-30T10:18:31Z")
thanks Thinh
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### Author:  [@Rosewebstudio](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rosewebstudio)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/4 "2020-11-30T10:36:34Z")
@Mns_Glide
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### Author:  [@Mns\_Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mns_Glide)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/5 "2020-11-30T22:18:56Z")
Continuing question on this topic…
In pro APP we have 10GB of storage…how do we check storage is still available?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/6 "2020-11-30T22:36:26Z")
I don’t think there are any sorts of notification right now but David said they will show this in the editor in the future.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Gabriele](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Joe_Gabriele)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/7 "2021-12-01T14:01:23Z")
Adding to this, while the images are compressed to speed up the display to users, the original image’s size will still count toward your 10GB. If you have a lot of photos being uploaded, it can still chew through your space.
Ive seen the Cloudinary workaround. Based on their plans its free for up to 25GB, but jumps to $49-$89/month for more space, quite pricey.
Does anybody know if its easier to implement auto uploading to Cloudinary with the new Plugins?
Another workaround I believe is for users to add an image link, which appears to not consume any storage as the image is being hosted somewhere else. Of course, if the image isnt somewhere else already then this wouldn’t be ideal.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/8 "2021-12-02T00:01:33Z")
> [@Joe\_Gabriele](#):
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> Does anybody know if its easier to implement auto uploading to Cloudinary with the new Plugins?
I don’t think so…
Easiest way is you set up an Integromat/Zapier scenario to upload every new image in your app to Cloudinary, then replace the Glide link with Cloudinary, it will help “deleting” the Glide storage I think.
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/9 "2021-12-02T06:40:03Z")
@Joe_Gabriele maybe you’re referring to this post in relation to auto upload. Please notice that you can compress the image before putting it in cloudinary which means you can have a lot of images
> [@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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### Author:  [@Aymeric\_de\_Maussion](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Aymeric_de_Maussion)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-is-best-way-to-manage-photos/19133/10 "2021-12-02T12:35:44Z")
@Krivo At the beginning I tried with integromat. But you tutorial is much better. Thanks a lot for your tips.