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Rukbat Of course "shrinking" a picture degrades its quality, and resizing a 1.3MB file down to 300KB (if you're on a Verizon tower) will make it just about useless. If you're on a T-Mobile tower, it gets compressed to 1MB, so that's not too bad. (And if you're on a Sprint tower, there's no size limit.)
I'd manually "shrink" the picture to 300KB (or maybe 295KB to be sure), to make sure that it still looks good, then send it. Many Android apps and Windows programs can do a pretty good job of making a picture file smaller, but 1.3MB to 300KB is going to ruin it, unless you reduce the canvas size, then paste the picture into that. (It will be like a small version of the original picture, not a pixelated mess.)
Wow, Sprint has no size limit? I'm on Project Fi, so you would think I'd get that benefit since Fi uses both T-Mobile and Sprint. Of course, when I'm probably on T-Mobile when I'm trying to send that photo that's too big.
Is it odd that I was able to receive that large photo, considering I can't SEND it? Or is the size limitation apply to just sending and not receiving?