file compression?

Question

Hi,
I need to compress a number of images that I have on one of my website's pages. At the moment they are in JPEG format and are extremely large (for example, one of the images has dimensions of 2272 x 1704 and the size is 1.06mb). I've tried going into paint and saving as GIF but this reduces the quality of the image and doesn't seem to compress the file. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Keep them in JPEG format, which is best for photos. However JPEG has the ability to save at different compression ratios, so you can get a big reduction in the file size while only losing a small amount of quality - you can decide the exact trade-off between quality and size. The other thing you'll want to do is reduce the dimensions - you don't say whether you're using them as full screen, but if so they should be no larger than 800x600 - and if they're just small pictures in a page, they could be as small as 100x80.

To do both the resizing and the compressing, you'll need a better program than Paint. The best way would be via a dedicated package - Photoshop or Fireworks, if you have access to them. If you have Microsoft Office, it comes with quite a neat utility called Microsoft Office Picture Manager, which can do what you need. Otherwise, you could try downloading a piece of free software called The Gimp.

Answer 2

Yes, try opening in Paint and click Image - Stetch/skew and put 50% in each of the boxes. That will reduce the dimensions by half. Then reduce again to about the size you want.
A web page is about 800 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi, its pointless to make your pics bigger than the page.
Giffs are for graphics, Jpegs for photos. But its best to have a back up copy saved as a bitmap, because every time you work on a jpeg and save it, uit will compress it again and you'll lose image quality.
Work on the original bitmap and when its the size you want, then save as a jpeg.

Or try Irfanview, its free.
http://www.irfanview.com

Answer 3

How plenty you could compress a document relies upon on the information itself and the set of rules getting used. you could often tell maximum classes to compress decrease than the optimal available with the intention to do it extra at once, yet you will no longer know how compressed it is going to likely be until you have finished it.

Answer 4

Quick Web Photo Resizer is a programme dedicated to the purpose you want it for. You can try it out on 30 days free trial from
http://www.dzsoft.com/web-photo-resizer.html

ps there is also a freeware one called Visualiser Photo Resize from
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vphotoresize.html

Answer 5

The best way is Learning a little Adobe Photoshop.

Answer 6

compress your files by using ACD SEE , this software can compress your Images multiply (grup) .

Answer 7

Counter-question: how does this relate to the category you posted this question in? (Programming & design)

Answer 8

for some reason some of the normal pics that i have r up to15 megs. i think its cuase it opened and edited it with fireworks after i save it, it becommes large. dunno. hope u get answers for this one