making JPEG files smaller?(not the picture,the file...in KB)?

Question

I want to post pictures on a forum.the forums does not allow files which are larger than 97 KB in size.I figured re-sizing the pic would make them take less KB but not so.....
cropping the pic shaves off some KB but ive cropped them down as much as possible,and am still about 100 kb too much.
how can i make my 200 KB picture only take up 97 KB of space?

I am using irfanview

Answer 1

If you have Photoshop then you can try the following:

1.open the original file
2. at the top of the screen, click on "Image" and then select "Image size"
3. After the pop-up box appears, select whatever pixel size you wish
4. Do a "Save-As", giving your file a different name
5. Select a resolution size (5 or less usually works best)
6. then go to whatever document folder the new image is saved in. Either hover over the file or else right-click the mouse and check out "properties" to discover the new file size.

I hope that works because my brother-in-law repeatedly sends us HUGE JPEGs that take several decades to download. He cannot seem to grasp the concept of shrinking the file size.

Answer 2

What program are you using? My bet is that you want to re-save your photo in a lower dpi (dots per inch). Web-ready graphics are usually 72dpi while photo quality graphics are 300dpi and higher. The lower the dpi, the lower the quality of the photo - but the file size is also smaller!

If you are using Photoshop, click on "Images" in the toolbar, and then "Image size..."

From there you can change the actual size of the graphic and the resolution. The default should be in "pixels/inch" (same as dpi) and this is where you can check to see what the quality of your graphic is (and then also change it).

Hopefully that helps!

Answer 3

It is very hard to compress JPEGs. They are just about as small as they can be. JPEG is a very good compression scheme. Yes, I know it is Lossy, but it is still just about as small as it can get.

So the fact is, you can't compress the picture any more than it already is. You are going to have to lose some quality some where. Either decrease the colors, decrease the size, or decrease the sharpness.

Answer 4

Optomization.

Photoshop "Save For web" option allows you to adjust quality and see the output size of your image.

Without resizing the physical dimensions of the image, optomizing removes bits of detail (not noticable) , which removes overall data, making the file size smaller.

If you need this done once, feel free to upload the full pic somewhere and i will get it to 97kb for you. My email is [e-mail]

Answer 5

If you have good photo editing utility (Photoshop) you can drop the quality of the picture down- this will decrease the file size without decreasing the resolution/actual picture size.

Answer 6

200 kb jpg is huge but if you need it to be on the forum then you can use another picture hosting website like photobucket.com wich allows up to 550 kb pictures and just embed it into your forum

Answer 7

jpeg files are in image format. so they will be opened with any imaging software like paint, windows fax viewer, adobe photoshop. if you have any other image in different format like gif, tiff or any other thing try to open that in paint then save as jpg format. if you have some thing like pdf or document then press printscreen button on the keyobard and paste in paint then from the file menu save as jpg format.

Answer 8

You would literally have to shrink the picture. Most picture programs have a resizing thing in them, go to that and reduce the size by 50%

Answer 9

Just lower the resolution (dpi, ppi). You never had to crop off any of your image.

Answer 10

there are only 3 ways to make a picture smaller, resize, quality, and type