Uploaded photo sizing

EasySocial 2.0.5

I'm really pleased with the way this component encourages interaction from my users and it helps that it's sort of like Facebook for them to use and understand.

However when they upload photos into albums from their phones etc, these images can be such large files that its becoming noticeable very quickly how much space is disappearing on my server...

In order to limit the problem until I find a solution I have limited the upload filesize and the number of photos uploaded per user per day. But this causes frustration for the user as their uploads don't work.

Is there a setting I could have missed to resize any photo when uploaded?

As far as I can see when a photo is uploaded there is the original, large, stock and thumbnail versions created.

I looked at just one photo that had been uploaded as an example and saw that the original was 1600x1200 (Just over 1MB), the stock was also 1600x1200 (572KB), the large was 1280x960 (787KB) and the thumbnail 341x256 (73KB). This is far from being the largest of photos that have been uploaded, some have been nearer 6MB!

Reducing the 3 largest photos to a long edge of 800px brought their filesizes down to just over 100KB each and this seems fine for web display purposes. But its not practical for me do do this manually after the photos are on the server.

I know that I can try the long hard slog of encouraging users to resize their photos somewhere else before uploading but that takes away all the convenience to them of using EasySocial.

So, sorry for the long post but is it possible:

To resize photos during the users' upload?

If not, is this a feature that could be added?

Thanks