Bruno Schneider scripsit: > On 4/11/07, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> I'm trying to reduce the number of bytes in an image. I can easily >> convert the bmp to jpg and the size to something reasonable, but the >> number of bytes is still large, around 300kb for a simple image! Am I >> missing something? Possibly a whole chunk of knowledge about how >> images work? > > Yeah, probably that's it :) > > But if you are saving to JPEG, try the "-quality" option that will > save you lots of bytes at the expense of some visual quality. Also, > strip any unwanted meta-data from file such as thumbnails, EXIF, > comments, etc. The "-strip" option will remove it all. > BMP doesn't hold any metadata so JPG converted from them cannot contain metadata. Conversion any format -> bmp -> any format is recommended here way of complete removal of metadata when -strip isn't enough (and in many cases it is not).
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