Hi Patrick--
Imagemagick is a good tip, and I've just been looking into it, but it
is a bit daunting since I've not much experience in command-line.
If I wanted to convert all the jpgs in a given folder to a file size
of say maximum (or exactly) 200kb, do you know what command I could
type?  Or is there another way to dramatically cut filesize for all of
them in a given folder?
(If a command for a whole folder doesn't work, then the jpgs do have
names in numerical order, like p100161.jpg for example.)
--Doug

On Aug 6, 7:04 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.
>
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