Smart computer people, how do you compress images??

[Greg98]

hey! i just got a bunch of paintball pics developed, and along with the pictures i got a CD ROM that has the entire set of pics on it. but when i try and post them, it says they're too big, so how do i compress/resize them?? any help would be much appreciated!

[synreal]

you'll need some format of graphics tool (photoshop, paint shop pro, corel draw, any of the miriad of web graphic converter tools that there are on the web)

[pbstu]

just open it up with ms paint and then save it, but instead of a bmp save it as a jpeg.



stu.

[Greg98]

well thats the problem, it already is a JPG!! it says on the information about the pictures, this:

F1020020.jpg
MozillaJPEG
size: 641 KB
dimensions: 1028x1536 pixels

so can you offer me any other advice? thanks alot AO!

[paintbattler]

hey, send some of them to [email protected] and i will resize them for you

[Restola]

Any basic image program (i use the latest photoimpact) will have an option to resize the picture.

[thevilduk]

jpeg is as compressed and high quality as it comes. I think that maybe gif is smaller but its sloppy looking. I always save my files as jpeg. And if they are too big try to make them smaller like paintbattler will do. And what size are we talkin about here?

[Greg98]

hey paintbattler, i sent ya 3 pics, thanks alot for your help! and if you possibly tell me how you did it, i'd be very grateful, as you can give a man a fish and feed him for the day, or teach how to fish and feed him for a lifetime! thanks again

[FooTemps]

gosh... the pics are huge! 1028 x 1536! I say resize them and save them at lower quality if you have graphics tooling program like paintshop pro or photoshop

[Greg98]

well i solved the problem more or less, thansk for your help everyone. and i have no photoshop programs or anything, i'm not really good at complex computer stuff, and i'm not really interested either. as long as i can get to AO and MSN, and a couple other sites, i'm happy! thanks again guys!

[krafty]

The latest version of PowerToys for Windows comes with a handy little picture-resizer, too. I'm not sure if it's compatable with anything except XP, though.

You can download PowerToys for free directly from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

[shartley]

Originally posted by autoduk
jpeg is as compressed and high quality as it comes. I think that maybe gif is smaller but its sloppy looking. I always save my files as jpeg. And if they are too big try to make them smaller like paintbattler will do. And what size are we talkin about here?

http://www.adpc.purdue.edu/PhysFac/prnt/Support/graph.htm

http://www.1960pcug.org/~imagery/graphic_formats.htm

http://www.uwm.edu/~frankkl/540430/graphics.htm (Great one explaining why when using JPEG images you need to be careful about data loss.)
http://www.lsc.cc.mn.us/admin/tech/file_type.htm