How do you shrink the file size of a picture you have on your computer?

Answer 1

look in your photo software and see if you can "save as web format. This will save as a jpeg and make the file a lot smaller. This is what to do if you put pictures on a web site.
Hope this helps,
G.

Answer 2

In Photoshop:

Open the picture -
Go Up to the Edit Image Size
Make sure your size is set to about 4 or 5 inches in width or height
Then set the DPI to 72 or 150 (72 is best for using on websites while 150 is a little better for printing)

The only time you should have an image that is 7 or more inches at 300 dpi (or 28 inches at whatever) is if you plan to print that size...
It's very annoying but most digital cameras save your pictures at like 28 inches across - that is way too big. Just shrink it down to like 6 at the biggest (but keep it at 72 dpi) then you can email the pictures much more efficiently.

Just remember DPI is the crispness and quality of the image (and the ability to zoom in)
And Inches or cm is the size that the image would print at.

Answer 3

It depends on what type of picture format you are using for example .jpg u can open with it any image editing software and again saving it as .gif the size will be reduced without any quality loosing. i've not tried on other formats. 1 mb jpeg, or jpg file can be shrinked to just kbs in .gif format.

Answer 4

You need to convert it to a compressed format such as GIF, PNG or JPG.

You can control the size of the file with the JPG format, but the smaller the size gives the smaller amount of quality.

You can use different applications to perform this task. "Gimp" is free.

Answer 5

You almost any graphics editing program, like Photoshop. You just open the file then you change the image size. Then you save it. Some programs let you export pics where you can change the quality.

Answer 6

open it in Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor program. Look in the options and there should be an option for file size. You can reduce it there.

Answer 7

the simplest way, i think of, may well be positioned the image in iPhoto and click the e mail button on the backside. it is going to ask you procedures plenty you opt to compress it it and positioned it in an e mail message as an attachment.

Answer 8

save as .jpeg instead of bitmap, there will be alot of difference in size.. Good Luck

Answer 9

I open it on MS paint and click Image>Stretch/Skew and type in the amout you want to resize vertically or horizontally.

Answer 10

make the picture smaller
try it
it might work i i dunno
gud luk