A quick question.

My camera creates rather large jpg files (5 million pixels). For the
purposes of uploading to a web page how can I reduce the size of the
file(s)? I have 'Paint' and 'Imaging' with my windows XP software.

Many thanks

Keith (Southend)

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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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A quick question.

My camera creates rather large jpg files (5 million pixels). For the
purposes of uploading to a web page how can I reduce the size of the
file(s)? I have 'Paint' and 'Imaging' with my windows XP software.

The fastest way to reduce images size on Windows XP is a Windows XP
powertoy, called 'image resizer'. Along with other powertoyes, it can be
downloaded for free here

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

After installation has completed, simply right click on the image you wish
to resize and you'll see that a 'resize image' option will have been added
up on the menu. You can choose between various analyses, while the new file
will be saved in the same folder as the original picture.

All the best,

Yannis, SE Athens
+20.9C, RH 48%, SLP 1016.3 hPa

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
My camera creates rather large jpg files (5 million pixels). For the
purposes of uploading to a web page how can I reduce the size of the
file(s)? I have 'Paint' and 'Imaging' with my windows XP software.

If the Imaging with XP is the same as that included with 98SE then,
although it will read JPGs it doesn't seem to allow saving in that
format. Paint is also pretty limited, I think. However almost any of the
large number of freeware imaging applications should be able to do it.
Try looking on these sites:

http://tucows.mirror.ac.uk/
http://shareware.cnet.com/
http://download.cnet.com/
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Excellent, nice and simple and easy to use, suits me down to the
ground g The image on my front page should now upload 10x faster,
I'll have to gp through some of the others and reduce there size.

Thanks Yannis and John for your speedy replies. As always floods of
help from the newsgroup.

Regards

Keith (Southend)

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 21:00:47 +0300, "Yannis"
wrote:

"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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A quick question.

My camera creates rather large jpg files (5 million pixels). For the
purposes of uploading to a web page how can I reduce the size of the
file(s)? I have 'Paint' and 'Imaging' with my windows XP software.

The fastest way to reduce images size on Windows XP is a Windows XP
powertoy, called 'image resizer'. Along with other powertoyes, it can be
downloaded for free here

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

After installation has completed, simply right click on the image you wish
to resize and you'll see that a 'resize image' option will have been added
up on the menu. You can choose between various analyses, while the new file
will be saved in the same folder as the original picture.

All the best,

Yannis, SE Athens
+20.9C, RH 48%, SLP 1016.3 hPa

In message , "Keith
(Southend)" writes
Excellent, nice and simple and easy to use, suits me down to the
ground g The image on my front page should now upload 10x faster,
I'll have to gp through some of the others and reduce there size.

Thanks Yannis and John for your speedy replies. As always floods of
help from the newsgroup.

Being able to crop the image (if necessary) and reduce the colour depth
can also help, and so can fiddling with the JPG compression.

Warning: do the fiddling on a copy, not the original! You'd probably
worked that out anyway, but just in case....

snip

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Hello.

Try the free image prog IrfanFiew http://www.irfanview.com/

File save as option and select quality




On Mon, 31 May 2004 18:05:48 +0100, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

A quick question.

My camera creates rather large jpg files (5 million pixels). For the
purposes of uploading to a web page how can I reduce the size of the
file(s)? I have 'Paint' and 'Imaging' with my windows XP software.

Many thanks

Keith (Southend)

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http://www.southendweather.net
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"Five Cats" ] wrote in message
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In message , "Keith
(Southend)" writes
Excellent, nice and simple and easy to use, suits me down to the
ground g The image on my front page should now upload 10x faster,
I'll have to gp through some of the others and reduce there size.

Thanks Yannis and John for your speedy replies. As always floods of
help from the newsgroup.

Being able to crop the image (if necessary) and reduce the colour depth
can also help, and so can fiddling with the JPG compression.

Warning: do the fiddling on a copy, not the original! You'd probably
worked that out anyway, but just in case....

Have a peek at the Graphics Tutorial on my website below, too.

HTH.
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