How can you get a picture to have less MB.?

Question

The picture I am tryin to load wont work because its 1.47MB.
It needs to be 1MB or less.
please help me out

Answer 1

Open in photo editing program, and either reduce file dimensions (X x Y pixels, rescale picture)
OR
Use FILE, SAVE AS, set as JPG, should be a JPG options box, reduce quality to smaller files size . . . tweak a little at a time till file is about 999k

Answer 2

If you have photoshop or another photo manipulation software program you can change the size of the picture to make it smaller.

From about.com:

Before going to your intended size, you first want to crop your image to remove any unnecessary portions of the picture. After cropping, you can change the overall pixel dimensions to go even smaller.

All photo editing software will have a command for changing the pixel dimensions of an image. Look for a command called "Image Size," "Resize," or "Resample." When you use this command you will be presented with a dialog box for entering the exact pixels you wish to use. Other options you may find in the dialog are:

* Resample - You need this on when sizing down. This enables the software to change the pixel dimensions.
* Constrain proportions or keep aspect ratio - You want this option enabled.
It prevents the image from being stretched and distorted. When this option is enabled, you only need to enter one value--height or width--and the other value will adjust automatically.

Never, ever resize and overwrite your original file!
After sizing the image, be sure to do a Save As so you don't overwrite your original, high resolution file. You'll want to save as a JPEG file.

* When choosing the compression level, keep quality in the medium to high range.
* You want to shoot for a file size of 30 to 100 KB per image. Go small if you will be putting several files on the same page or sending them in one email.
* Try not to exceed 100 KB per Web page for the total of all images.

This may sound like a time consuming process, especially if you have a lot of photos to share, but fortunately most of today's software has made it easy to size and compress a batch of photos very quickly. Most image management and some photo editing software has an "email photos" command that will resize and compress the images for you. In fact, Windows XP has this functionality built-in. Some software can even resize, compress, and generate complete photo galleries for posting on the Web. And there are specialized tools for both of these tasks--many of them free software.

Answer 3

i think that u have 2 ways to do it :

1- rescale the picture dimensions ( rescale it to smaller height and width)

2- change the format of the picture,bmp get lot of storage area but its high quality\, u may change it yo jpeg or gif but u will lose it quality

Answer 4

Picture Less

Answer 5

You can make it more compressed by using a lower quality jpeg setting, or make it smaller by shrinking the dimensions.

Answer 6

Hey,
GIMP is the free versions of photoshop. You can use it to edit your picts. There is a free download here http://bitly.com/1zbneDS
It's surely the leader program of its type

Answer 7

if you have photoshop or any other kinda of photo thing, you can go to resize and change the resolution or the size and that will decreese the MB.

Answer 8

change to format of the picture for example .jpeg to .bmp

Answer 9

shrink it in pixel size.