How do you make a small enough picture?

[Sarge]

I've been trying for three days to make a picture small enough to be accepted by the TDR site for my classified ad with no success. Is there a secret i'm missing? Its making me nuts! Any help is appreciated... ... ..... thanks, Sarge

 

[lmills]

I usually just resize it with my picture program. If all else fails send, me the pic I will try to resize it for you. lmills3142@aol.com

 

[Sarge]

Thank you, I will probably send it shortly. I have had no luck using my program. Thanks, Marty

 

[MMeier]

What is the secret? I knocked mine down some but still not close enough, apparently the guy that took it made it a real big one!!

 

[klenger]

There are two things you can do to make a jpg picture smaller. One is to resize it to smaller dimensions, the other is to change to compression ratio to a lower setting (more compression). There is a free program that is very good for this kind of work called Irfanview and can be downloaded from http://www.irfanview.com/



If you want to email the pic to me at -- email address removed -- I will do it for you and send it back. Just tell me what size in pixles and file size.



Ken

 

[Sarge]

Thanks Ken. I e-mailed you. Marty

 

[klenger]

Here it is. I had to set the jpg quality to 80% to get the file size to less than 32K. Picture size is 200 x 150. Right click on the pic to download it.

 

[Sarge]

Thanks Ken!! YOU da man... ... . again!! Marty

 

[MMeier]

Thanks Ken , must be nice to be computer literate!!

 

[klenger]

Anytime.



kl

 

[MMeier]

I saw the box for pixel size, how do you change the compression percentage, take it thats what makes the pic smaller? So to make a pic "larger" do you increase the compression without distorting the picture?or...

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

The compression is many times called quality in image programs. The resolution is the physical size of the image. The compression or quality is the amount of data compression applied to the file - which will cause some degredation of the picture. Usually a quality setting of 5 will reduce the file size a TON but will not be noticeable to the naked eye. For any images that I am posting online I set the quality setting to 5.