Specific photo-editing problem - need to resize by filesize, not dimensions?

Question

Hi all. I have a range of photos to upload (to MySpace) and they must all be less than 600K. I own IrfanView, Picasa, UniDream PowerBatch PhotoShop Elements 4 and an 'unstable' copy of Photoshop 7 (and of course MS PhotoEditor). However, the batch processing features of these products only seem to offer re-sizing by %age or by dimension, not to a specific file size. I know I could group all the photos witha size of, say 1000-1200K and reduce them by 50%, then take the ones in the 800-1000 range and reduce by 40%, etc, but that's a bit of a pain. Does anyone know how I can specify a maximum filesize and reduce the photos (all at once, with a batch process) so they end up exactly or close to that maximum?

Answer 1

The only way that is gonna happen is if ur willing to loose some quality in the pictures. I belive that if you convert / save the files in gif format, the file size we become alot smaller. Other than that, the only other thing I would recommend is resizing the pictures lil by lil till u get 2 the file size you need. If myspace is saying that the filesize of your picture is to big, then most likely the picture is self is too big and u needa resize it n e wayz.