JPEGs are already compressed. You'd have to resave them losing quality doing so to a greater lossy compression.
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>wrote: > * kitandkaboodle <[email protected]> [08-06-11 21:11]: > > When uploading to picasa from my camera, I have a long list of jpgs, > > some big (2 or 3 MB), and some small. I'd like them all to be a fairly > > small byte-size before uploading to picasa. > > then you need to use something such as ImageMagick to reduce the size of > the images. Jpeg images are already "compressed" within your camera, ie: > jpeg images *are* compressed images. > > Warning, you *will* loose detail by reducing the size of your jpeg images. > > > It doesn't seem like picasa-linux has a precompressing option, so I'm > > wondering if there's some sort of software or shell program to > > compress jpgs in a certain folder or of a certain range of filenames > > each into a maximum size. > > I wondering if perhaps there is some mis-understanding here as I have not > heard of a *precompressing* option in any linux photo app. > > > Alternatively, wondering if there's any workaround for this within > > picasa-linux. > > ImageMagick can reduce the *size* of your images, re warning above. > > Also, "picasa-linux" is a mis-nomer. There is *no* linux based picasa, > but only a windows executable that is runable under/via wine. Never has > been and afaict never will be. > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 > http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member > Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
