Reducing the size of images?

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Reducing the size of images?

I want to upload some pictures to my website. They are currently at about 3-4Megabites each. I want to get them down to about 500KB so that they dont take so long to load. How do I do this?

2006-11-20 00:27:06 · 16 answers · asked by Rhys H 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design

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You can use the viewer Irfanview for that (see my source list). Resizing is a breeze: type CTRL-R, enter the new measurements. Select 'Resample' in the lower right corner, and use the Lanczos filter.

Next, type S to save the resized file. Select the required filetype ('Save as type') which you'll probably want to set to JPEG. In a small window on the right you'll find a slider bar that you can use to set the 'Save quality'. Try different values to see which one works for you.

Irfanview is pretty cool, experiment and check out the options to get the most out of it. Do NOT zip the file as someone else suggested. Not only can you no longer view the picture that way, it is also unlikely that it'll reduce the file size much, as most pictures consist of binary, 'random' data that cannot be compressed (much).

Good luck!

2006-11-20 00:43:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

The easiest way would be via Photoshop and using the save for web feature . However you probably don't have access to that so use somthing like GIMP which is available mainly for Linux but also for other UNIX varients and most useful for you Windows.
Yet another alternative if you are processing many photos down to a fixed size think along the lines of using IMAGE MAGIK library commands which I think are available for windows as long as you are also running Cygwin. Using this method you wouldn't need to touch the images it would be all automatic!

2006-11-20 00:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by acontractornow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Hi the easiest way to do it is to use Photoshop to open the image and click on scale tool from the edit menu from there you can reduce the image to any size. But if you want the same as it is now just export it as gif or .jpg that is the best for web from there you will get at least 500kb per size.

thanks

2006-11-21 01:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by daniel65ng 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

As Rawlyn says, use the GIMP 2.2

It's a great piece of software and it's free.

All I'd add is how to do the resize, just to save you time working it out.

Open up you picture and then go to the Image menu and chose Scale Image...

There you can change the Image Size. Make sure the "link" to the right of the Width:/Height: boxes is, er?, linked (for want of a better word) then as you change the Width: it will change the Height: to keep the proportions the same.

Easy! Enjoy. :)

2006-11-20 00:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by amancalledchuda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

in case you have gotten them right down to 10-20 kb with photoshop, then that's in line with threat approximately so a approaches as you will get. Saving them as gifs often makes them smaller, yet no longer constantly. once you're internet site is heavy on photographs, you should to contemplate preloading various the photos for the different pages -this way, while the customer is going to the subsequent internet site, the photos have already been taken in by the browser. you're able to do this least confusing with slightly css.

/div be conscious that I made the image 1X1, this permits shop all of this hidden, and the css places all of it some thousand pixels above the internet site besides. do no longer us "demonstrate:none" or "visibility:hidden" as some browsers will forget approximately approximately loading the photos. !significant - this might desire to be the final element on your internet site, you do no longer prefer the browser attempting to load those first (in actuality, it is going to initiate loading those photographs after each and every thing else, and the customer would be none the wiser -while they get to the subsequent internet site, it would pop up rapidly!). additionally -make certain to apply the comparable course for the photos that's used in the time of the region (src="photograph/photograph.gif) -ascertain they're each and every of the comparable, otherwise the browser will nevertheless reload the image a 2nd time.

2016-10-04 04:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by huenke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

If you're using Windows (and statistics show you probably are), bring up paint and save your pictures as a jpeg image. That will reduce the image from 500k to about 50k.

2006-11-20 00:29:45 · answer #6 · answered by dm_gsxr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

If you want to convert a lot of files the best program to use is Irfanview, it is free for personal use here http://www.irfanview.com
Gimp and all the others are great if you need to modify the pictures and have weeks available to learn how to use it.

2006-11-20 00:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by Miki P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Scale them down, and save in JPEG format (if they aren't already). A free program that will do this easily (plus a whole ton more of image processing stuff) is the GIMP http://www.gimp.org/

Rawlyn.

2006-11-20 00:28:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋

Hey,
get Irfanview for free here http://bit.ly/1rmx9oZ
It's a really nice software.

2014-07-20 04:56:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Hey,
To get Gimp for free you can click here on the link http://bit.ly/1lqffuy
I guess it's the sotware you need.
Regards

2014-08-04 05:12:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋