Help ! How do I compress photos

Legacy_user

Hi

I have some photos taken using my digital camera, but want to upload them to photobox to order prints.

How do i compress my photos to a smaller file size to make uploading them faster.

Thanks

ginjim

if you have acdsee save as jpeg or most photo utility tools can do this

geordie_joe

seddsmt wrote:

Hi

I have some photos taken using my digital camera, but want to upload them to photobox to order prints.

How do i compress my photos to a smaller file size to make uploading them faster.

Thanks

I use faststone Photo resizer from here

Just leave the picture size the same and adjust the compression.

If your pictures are GIF you will have to convert them the JPG, just leave the file size at 100% and change the output format to JPG.

Work with copies and/or make sure the output folder is different, or tick the rename box.

Zahc

I use pixresizer from here. Free of course.;)

Zahc

Stompa

seddsmt wrote:

How do i compress my photos to a smaller file size to make uploading them faster.

You'll be sacrificing quality if you compress them further. I'd suggest uploading them 'as is' and putting up with the wait.

kingmonkey

Be careful about over compressing though as it will decrease the quality of the photograph.

The minimum res depends on the size of the prints your ordering.

Darksun

Save them as PNG (if the site will accept PNG images). It's lossless compression so it'll reduce the size of the file without reducing the quality

Stompa

Darksun wrote:

Save them as PNG (if the site will accept PNG images). It's lossless compression so it'll reduce the size of the file without reducing the quality

On the assumption that the original files are JPEG (i.e. lossy) to start with then converting to PNG will just make them bigger.

PNG was never intended for photographic images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG#Comparison_with_JPEG