A SUPER Easy Way to Resize Images in Your Substack Posts
If you don't already know this, it's the simplest and best thing you'll learn all week!
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Remember when you were writing your About page and thought it would be a nice idea to include a headshot? (Because YES, you should always have a headshot on your About page!)
And then you uploaded what you thought would be a thumbnail image, but instead, it displayed so large you could count the individual pores in your skin. So, you crop and resize your photo in Paint and upload it again, and it does the same thing!
No matter how you manipulate that headshot (or any other image for that matter), it always displays so large that readers have to scroll through multiple time zones to see the whole thing.
Relax. Help has arrived.
Here’s how to resize ANY image in your Substack posts, without even leaving your draft:
As usual, today’s post was inspired by a client who had not discovered this Substack hack.
Did you know about this simple photo resizing tool?
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The other thing you can do is click edit image and lower the top part of the photo so you dont have so much sky (for example)
Oh that is so useful. I’ve been creating collages in Pic collage & posting the one image that has several in it.