jpeg photos ,how do you compress them?

allhourrs

hi please could some one advise me on how to compress a j peg photo dowmn to approx 50 kb so thst i can transfer it from my laptop via bluetooth to my d500 mobile , i guess i would need a program of some sort to allow me to compress,does any body have any good ideas , many thanks

alison74

I am no expert, but if you right click on the picture and select 'send to' then email recipient' windows should tell you that they will resize it for you, which they do and it's normally about to 40k so a very friendly size to your phone

Hope this helps, but I'm sure someone else will come up with the perfect answer

allhourrs

thanks very much for that info alison74 much appreciated

Samir_2

Try picasa, the photo editing software from google which has some impressive features, its a free download - https://www.picasa.com

shrek101

Try thsi free powertoy

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Image Resizer

This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

shrek101

The only way to compress jpegs with a photo editing tools to to resize and or alter the compression ratio. The more you compress anything greater than 15% can be noticeable (artifcats), this is one of the reason why Jpegs wont compress with a compression program like winzip.

There is a format called jpeg2000 which is better at compression whilst retaining reasonable picture quality, however, in order to view this format you need a photo editing program that supports it, like Jasc Paintshop Pro I think only from version 8 or greater supports it.