But we certainly know a few workarounds to resize photos on Windows 10. We don’t know when Microsoft will update the Photos app with resizing options. If you open an image in the new photos app and click on the pencil icon to edit it, you’ll find there’s no option of resizing a photo. The new Windows 10 Photos app is limited and many features the former version of this app supported has now disappeared the most prominent one among them is ‘resizing a photo’. This is a free tool that shrinks the file size but maintains the quality with lossly or lossless compression.Why did Microsoft change the Photos app? Since when is massively reducing functionality an upgrade? These are the questions almost every Photos app user is asking to Microsoft upgrading their PC to Windows 10. If you find that the images aren't small enough then you can use a tool like Compressor IO to shrink the files further. There are other compression options worth trying too.

PNGs, for example, are usually larger file sizes and need adjusting. It's also worth trying other file extension types to see the difference. Move the slider to the left to reduce the quality and you'll see the 'new' file size go down. There's a quality slider on the Microsoft Photos app which you can see when you've clicked to resize the image. Naturally resizing it in terms of pixels or percentage size and making it smaller will also reduce the file size but you can also tweak the quality or file type to make it smaller too. These options are perfect if you need to change the file size because the image you're editing is just too big to upload to a particular site or is taking up too much room on your PC. When you've followed the steps above to resize an image you'll also see the option to both adjust the quality of the image and the file extension.

How to adjust the file size and compress the image

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