How to resize quickly a imgur image?

Question

Is there any way to resize an imgur.com image using the query string when I use it on a forum?

This image is too big for some forum and it ruins the pagination.

the image somehow really freak me out... – gagantous Nov 21 '17 at 14:42 — gagantous, Nov 21 '17 at 14:42

score 55 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 24 '20 at 06:46

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You can specify the small version of the image by appending s to its base URL.

For example, the URL of your original image is https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brjd7.jpg.
By adding s this becomes https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brjd7s.jpg:

smaller image version https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brjd7s.jpg

Some images may have an ultra-small version of the image, accessed by adding ss, thus making it https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brjd7ss.jpg, but your image does not have one.

Here is the list of all the modifiers for dimensions (not all are always available) :

s =   90×  90 = Small Square (as seen in the example above)
b =  160× 160 = Big Square 
t =  160× 160 = Small Thumbnail 
m =  320× 320 = Medium Thumbnail 
l =  640× 640 = Large Thumbnail
h = 1024×1024 = Huge Thumbnail

edited Nov 24 '20 at 06:46

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answered Aug 07 '17 at 18:51

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the answer hints at that, but it is the pixel area and proportions of the original image that determine which of the modifiers will be available. A very narrow but tall rectangular pic, for instance, might not produce a "s" version even if the original is high quality. Or it might produce urls where "m" (medium) is the same as "l" (large). The `` method (described [in this answer](https://superuser.com/a/1238701/525084)) can produce a custom resize for these edge cases, but it's slower than just adding a modifier to a URL. – init_js Oct 19 '18 at 07:48

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 07:29

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It may depend on the type of encoding the forum uses.

On Stack Exchange you can use the line <img src="[url]" width="[nnn]"> to specify the size quite precisely.

eg
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brjd7.jpg" width="123">

The advantage of this method is the full size image is available to anyone who needs to see it, by right-clicking & opening in a new tab.

answered Aug 08 '17 at 07:29

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This still _loads_ the full size image – Janaka Bandara Mar 01 '20 at 02:11
It loads the full image drawn at the dimensions specified. For about 18 months from the end of 2017, this was the **only** way you could do it, the `s,t,m,l` etc mechanism was broken. – Tetsujin Mar 01 '20 at 10:01

How to resize quickly a imgur image?

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