reduce image filesize?

[Darkside7000]

Is there a program that will go through specified photo folders and reduce their filesize? I found opening paint and saving as will reduce filesize by up to 75% in some cases without really damaging the quality, but doing this one at a time is really time consuming. Anything out there that will do this for me? I just have a lot of pictures of friends/events that don't really need to be 4-5mb each.

[alucardxmeow]

When reducing the image file size, it does that by making the quality of the picture worse. Or by increasing the file size, the quality get's better.

Sometimes pictures are big file sizes because they got a lot of shit going on in them.

Most of the time I use paint.NET because I can lower the file size without harming my photo too much.

[Darkside7000]

I understand why the quality is filesize is reduced. However, I opened some 5mb files in paint and "save as"ed them. There were virtually no changes in the quality yet the filesizes were reduced to 1-2mb, even less in some cases. Maybe a professional photographer would notice the difference more but it doesn't matter much to me.

However, that process is too time consuming to do one at a time, because I have hundreds(+) pics, (which could be optimized to save a far amount of room) hence why I want a program that could do something for me.

Does Paint.NET have something like this? I'll check it out.

[Ppk3000]

At 8/16/09 07:16 AM, Darkside7000 wrote: I understand why the quality is filesize is reduced. However, I opened some 5mb files in paint and "save as"ed them. There were virtually no changes in the quality yet the filesizes were reduced to 1-2mb

Depends how good your eyes are, and how good the quality is. My guess is that you're saving from some inefficient source (BMP/TIFF/etc.) to a high quality JPEG (JPG).

However, that process is too time consuming to do one at a time, because I have hundreds(+) pics, (which could be optimized to save a far amount of room) hence why I want a program that could do something for me.

Paint.NET has no batch processing/automated conversion process. Personally I use Photoshop, but I'm sure there's a free alternative out there somewhere...

[AcidSoldier]

At 8/16/09 07:10 AM, alucardxmeow wrote: When reducing the image file size, it does that by making the quality of the picture worse. Or by increasing the file size, the quality get's better.

Sometimes pictures are big file sizes because they got a lot of shit going on in them.

Most of the time I use paint.NET because I can lower the file size without harming my photo too much.

Photoshop can make a 1920x1200 wallpaper at full quality in GIF, under 1 MB.

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