Note about photo sizing - how I learned

[Mira]

After photo bucket became unaffordable all my photos were too large for posting (I did it anyway - much to the chagrin of the hosts) or I begged for help.

Here is how I size them now:
I upload them to
https://postimages.org/
It simply asks what size you want it to be, and then uploads it correctly.

[BComplex]

1. How do you know what size you want it to be?

[flamin lib]

2. The size for contest entries is 1024 pixels on the long size.

the reason to downsize i pic is for band width. A big photo takes a long time to load on slow connections.