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Image Compresion by WaqasTariq on 07-27-2007 at 02:16 PM
I am looking for a software (not so heavy on resources) that can compress image (jpeg)..
Just like I was able to compress images using ACDSEE, I am looking for something that is prefarably free...
RE: Image Compresion by Volv on 07-27-2007 at 02:18 PM
MS Paint can save images as jpegs...
RE: Image Compresion by M73A on 07-27-2007 at 02:19 PM
irfanview
does conversion and batch conversion etc... tis free
http://www.irfanview.com/
RE: RE: Image Compresion by WaqasTariq on 07-27-2007 at 02:24 PM
quote:Yes I know that but I want to compress images
Originally posted by Volv
MS Paint can save images as jpegs...
RE: Image Compresion by Oxy on 07-27-2007 at 02:24 PM
quote:Yeah, just c&p image into paint and save as .jpg ...
Originally posted by Volv
MS Paint can save images as jpegs...
quote:Doing that will reduce the .jpg file to a size that was lower than the original file...
Originally posted by WaqasTariq
Yes I know that but I want to compress images
RE: RE: RE: Image Compresion by Volv on 07-27-2007 at 02:29 PM
quote:Umm, it is compression?
Originally posted by WaqasTariq
quote:Yes I know that but I want to compress images
Originally posted by Volv
MS Paint can save images as jpegs...
JPEG is always a lossy compression due to the nature of its format, regardless of which application/utility you use.
If you don't want to lose any quality then you need to use a non-lossy compression method such as zipping.
RE: Image Compresion by Ezra on 07-27-2007 at 02:37 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Volv
Umm, it is compression?
JPEG is always a lossy compression due to the nature of its format, regardless of which application/utility you use.
If you don't want to lose any quality then you need to use a non-lossy compression method such as zipping.
Or PNG
RE: Image Compresion by Nefzen on 07-27-2007 at 03:19 PM
woot!
noobs 
1) Don't save JPEG with MS paint!~ you'll be doomed!~ doomed!
2) If you edit an image, don't save it again and again as JPEG, since with each save you loss quality.
3) Use a good program 
like Gimp or Image Magick
4) If your image is big, you'd might want to crop it down, no point in huge images.
5) You can control the compression rate as opposed to the quality, and no, just because it says 100 quality doesn't mean it's 100% quality.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
reparing_images_for_upload]This[/url] page explains a lot about how to save images and gives a lot of good tips, like it's better to save certain images in PNG (images that have few colors, with large areas of the same color and sharp edges). Also it is a good idea, mostly, to use a pallet of fewer colors in such images.
And erm, that's it in a Nutshell
RE: Image Compresion by matty on 07-27-2007 at 03:32 PM
PIXResizer I use that when I want to do a batch resize on images it, however I don't think it will do what you are looking for but still a great piece of software.
RE: Image Compresion by user13774 on 07-28-2007 at 12:27 AM
quote:
Originally posted by M73A
irfanview
does conversion and batch conversion etc... tis free
http://www.irfanview.com/
I second that. I love it
RE: RE: Image Compresion by High Speed Chaser on 07-28-2007 at 01:38 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Markus
quote:
Originally posted by M73A
irfanview
does conversion and batch conversion etc... tis free
http://www.irfanview.com/
I second that. I love it
I third that. I take pictures for my school and I always use IrfanView.
RE: RE: Image Compresion by WaqasTariq on 07-28-2007 at 06:22 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Lukas
quote:Yeah, just c&p image into paint and save as .jpg ...
Originally posted by Volv
MS Paint can save images as jpegs...quote:Doing that will reduce the .jpg file to a size that was lower than the original file...
Originally posted by WaqasTariq
Yes I know that but I want to compress images
Well it does not I tried
Well here what I meant by compressing when I said it..
I scan a lot of documents in my office and almost always have to email them, when I scan the documents it is worth 200kb+ and when I used to use ACDSEE to compress it it went like 45-60KB i dont have to worry about image quality as the docs i scan are texts with stamps.
RE: Image Compresion by Mike on 07-28-2007 at 07:47 AM
Try ReaCompressor (not free).
RE: Image Compresion by Nefzen on 07-28-2007 at 10:27 AM
for text pages, what I found that a PNG with a small color pallet (like 16 colors or so) do a very good job at storing without taking too much space. You should also consider rescaling the image since scans tend to be big in size. Also, I use PNGoutp to recompress PNG into smaller proportions.