This isn't the post I was originally going to write this morning but I had this big image I wanted to shrink and when I searched I found several old and now incorrect posts. When you first start your post if you have clicked editor you can then click raw html and edit the width and height in the html code. If you have been using the default interface you can use the code below.
Suppose I had the following image that I wanted to use but it is way too big (4076 x 2712).
(photo credit https://unsplash.com/photos/npxXWgQ33ZQ)
When I copied the image into the Steemit post window I get the following code:
 (photo credit https://unsplash.com/photos/npxXWgQ33ZQ)
If I add https://steemitimages.com/407x271/ on the front of the url (ie. ) then I can shrink the image to be 407x271.
I can even get really carried away and make a teeny tiny one with:
