Uploading Images that are big enough to see but small enough to upload

[Grunt]

I just had a little search around for a free program that will optimise your images so that the display size is large but the upload size is less than the 100kb limit.

I found JPEGCompress. You can download it from http://internode.tucows.com/preview/364303.html

Install the program and then open your JPG image and move the slider until the size of the image is less than 100KB which is shown down the bottom right hand side of the screen. Try and make it as close to 100KB as you can.

Select File/Save As from the menu and save your file and Bob's your Uncle.

I've attached some samples.
The original image is around 450KBs. The size of the image is 1280 x 960 pixels.
I resized this image so it was small enough to upload and ended up with an image of 400x300 pixels.

I then used JPEGCompress on the original image and selected a compression of 56 and ended up with an image that is still 1280x960 but is only 95KB in size.

Hope this helps.

Grunt

[rev]

Grunt,
Great tip mate!
Derseves a greenie!
Cheers

[Gumby]

Nice going Grunty, by the way, which one is you ??

[echnidna]

The good looking one of course

[Grunt]

Bob is 100% correct.

[Zed]

one greenie for the gruntmiester. onya dogbreath!

[Zed]

grunt, the system wont let me give you some lovin... maybe I'll down load a photo of your dog tongue and sing some barry white to it for a while.... will that do you ?

as you know my photo posts have seriously sucked in the past so I much appreciate your dog-gone efforts!

[vsquizz]

Thats not a dog, This is a Dog

Kelpies for sheep, Blue dogs for Cattle & Mongrels for the family.

Cheers

[Iain]

This is a real mans dog:

[Grunt]

Thats not a dog, This is a Dog

Any dog is a dog as long as it is bigger than a cat.
Not fond of small yappy dogs.

[macca2]

I am running windows 98Se and it comes with Microsoft Photo Editor. All you need to do is open your picture in this program. Go to File, Properties, Resolution and change the number of pixels to what you want.

Works for me.

Macca

[Grunt]

I am running windows 98Se

I'm sorry to hear this.

Windows XP comes with Paint which doesn't allow you to do this. As far as I know changing the Resolution will not have any effect on a screen. Most screens are 96 dots per inch (DPI) and some of the older ones are 72dpi. The resolution will have an effect when you print it. JPEGCompress changes the quality setting JPGs which will make it smaller and suitable for only viewing on a screen. Print it and it will look really crappy.

There are a lot of programs out there that will do this. I just looked for a free one and one that showed the resulting image size before you wrote it to disk.

[vsquizz]

Grunt XP Pro has the photo editor. Adjust the size, crop and resolution no worries. You can probably download it somewhere and stick it into Home.

Cheers

[Grunt]

Grunt XP Pro has the photo editor. Adjust the size, crop and resolution no worries. You can probably download it somewhere and stick it into Home.

Cheers

I've got several things that do this stuff. Irfanview is my favourite viewer, image manipulator and batch converter. I use Gimp when I want to do proper photo editing and graphics work.

BTW, great dog you got there.

Grunt

[Dean]

If you are lucky enough to have Adobe Photoshop (work paid for mine!) then you can use the "Save for Web" option and switch to JPG format. It still allows you to set JPG compression level but still produces high quality images with small filesizes. It is the best option I have seen, but yould expect that from a pretty pricey piece of software