how do you change the file size of a jpeg once on your pc?

Question

I would like to reduce the file size of some photographs so i can fit them on a website. The photos where taken on a high pixal rate making the files big and i have currently run out of space on the website to fit any more pics on it.

Answer 1

Try Google Picasa.

To resize your pics easily

With Picasa, you can organize your pictures on your computer easily, Share your pics with friends by sending email, Edit your pics, making many special effects only by one click.

Here to download for free:
http://picasa.ifastnet.com

Answer 2

Be careful. Jpeg is a compression format. Every time you open a jpeg, make changes and save it, it re-compresses the image. Eventually you'll lose so much image quality that it is permenantly damaged.
Open your images and save as Bitmaps, make any changes, then save as jpegs. Try out the changes in your browser. If you need to make further changes open the bitmaps and try again, not the changed jpegs - just discard them.
Irfanview is one freeware program you can use, Paint dot net is a second, or if the changes are very simple you can use Paint.

Open the image.
Save As a bitmap.
Click Image - attributes.
Make sure the dpi is at 72. The web displays at 72 dpi, thats the correct resolution for screen. You want a big file size for printing.
Alter the width and height by the same amount, so as not to skew or distort the image, its unprofessional looking.
When you're happy with the new image, Save As a jpeg, load it into your browser and see how it looks.

Answer 3

Once the files are in jpeg, retrieve the file through window explorer, hence if your mouse pointer is on the file, it will highlight the dimensions (length & width) in pixels or inches, Type of file and size of file. Right click on the file and navigate to open with in the follow up dialog box choose Microsoft Photo Editor (MPE)
and click, the file will appear on MPE format, then go through the Image menu and click resize, the dialog box that follows shows you the size which could be adjusted and also click allow distortion and okay later, click save to reflect the new changes. the close the file. The effected change will reflect on the file. thanks

Answer 4

start > All programs > Accessories > Paint

Open them in windows paint program. Click on image >stretch skew ( give a number smaller, say 50, 50 in the box front of stretch, Horizontal and vertical) press OK. Then save it as jpeg file with another name so that your original file remains intact. Check the final size of the image after saving. Repeat the procedure with the original image if you want it still smaller or bigger, by reducing or by increasing the stretch value.

Answer 5

Right click on the pic and choose edit. On the utitlty bar, click view, then resize, this will give you 2 options, a vertical and a horizontal. Choose something like 200 and 200, this will cause the pic to be blown up to twice its size.

Answer 6

Convert it again but use the video options to changed the screen size to 320x240 and the audio options to change to a lower quality you should be able to get that down to 230mb which should just barley fit.....

Answer 7

resize them to a max size of 640 X 480

Answer 8

Use a picture editor software, click edit picture and compress it.

MS Office Picture manager is OK for basic stuff.

Answer 9

There is a oftware available, but the image quality will be reduced
I think the software is Sans somthing

Answer 10

open the file in paint and reduce the size of it, or download a software programme, myspace recommends one but i cant remember the name