Really you cant compress most photos. JPG's might compress a super tiny bit but normally not. They are by design already compressed as much as they can be. What you can do though is lower their image quality and/or stretch/skew them to be smaller in dimension (maybe thats what you mean by compress) The nice thing about the net is you rarely need to upload a file larger than 800x600 in size because if you go bigger a lot of people will have to scroll around to see them which can be bothersome. My suggestion is to get a program like GIMP for free (or the tool you were just direct too may work as well) and just change the image size to 800x600 (or whatever you are aiming for) when you do this make sure to keep the image quality at 100% or you will lose some picture quality. For the web 80% quality is usually not noticable unless you upload huge files. Keep in mind that this change will result in photos that will look prefectly fine on the web but will not really be printable to a photo quality :) Hope that helps! Thanks Chris
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Deborah A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Cool Cool Cool!!! Thank-you Cat!! I KNEW there was a reason I loved cats! > And have 3 of them! ;) deb :) > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Deborah A Chase wrote: >> > Hello all. I need a simple way to compress photos so I can upload them >> > onto a website as small photos. Can anyone tell me a simple way to do >> > this for the computerly challenged? I use Vista. I searched the group >> > emails & was totally overwhelmed (which is not a difficult thing ... ). >> >> Get AlSee ( www.altools.com/Downloads/ALSee.aspx ). It is an >> amazing >> picture viewer with basic editing abilities and it is free. (they also >> have a number of other tools including an awesome ZIP program) Under >> "edit" there is a resize option. You can do them singly or as a batch >> operation. >> >> cat > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" 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/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
