Evan Carmichael shows how to lower photo resolution in Evernote for Android. Open the app, tap the camera button, hit the options menu, select the arrow icon, and pick a lower resolution like 2 MP instead of the default 8 MP to save storage space.
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Hey, it's Evan, and today I got a question from one of my YouTube followers, Greg, who wrote in asking about Evernote, saying, "I'm learning to use Evernote along with my Android phone. Is there a way to reduce the picture size when using the phone as a scanner? Seems the photos are large and choke space quickly. Thanks for your videos." So Greg, yes, there's actually a really easy way to do this. So let me switch to my Evernote here so I can show you. So if I'm going to use my camera, I'm just going to click on the camera button here. And then the trick is on the side here where you have your options, click on that. And then I guess it's not that intuitive. When you click, there's this button here where you see two arrows pointing to the opposite edge of the screen. Click on that one and that lets you pick the picture size. So I have an option: 8, 5, 3, 2 megapixels, 1, or VGA. I have it set on the highest just because when I'm scanning something in, I want the highest resolution possible. But if you're gonna go lower, just pick whatever makes sense for you. So, say if I went to 2, then that's set. Go back and start snapping away with your camera. It's as easy as that.