Compress jpgs with paint help please

[seiya1]

When you take most jpgs to paint and save them, they are somehow compressed to a smaller file size (I made a 1.05 mb file to 344kb) without noticeable resolution or quality size.

Is there a way to do this in batch rather than do them one by one, which is tedious? If not, are there programs that do this?

(Not sure if this belongs in tutorials.)

Thanks.

 

[Vitreous]

Is there a way to do this in batch rather than do them one by one

XnView can do this (and more or less any other batch operaton). In the XnView browser select the images you want, right-click and choose "Convert Into >> JPEG" (I think it auto-renames if your source is already a jpeg, so look for a new, smaller file). There's lots more to the interface if you play around (especially under right-click >> "Batch Processing").

I just recommended this a couple of days ago elsewhere - I'm not affiliated with XnView, honest...

 

[guy]

+1 for XnView, excellent little program.

 

[seiya1]

I did what vitreous said and it made the files bigger for whatever reason. I'll keep toying with it, the program looks good.

 

[Vitreous]

I did what vitreous said and it made the files bigger for whatever reason.

Here's the longer instructions to choose exactly the quality/size you want:

- Select files in XnView browser
- Right-click and choose "Batch Processing"
- Choose an output folder or an Overwrite mode - whatever suits your needs
- Select "JPG" from the "Format" drop-down
- Press the "Options" button next to the Format
- Slide the "Quality" slider down as far as you want. This will reduce filesize - but go too far and the image quality will be poor. Experiment around the 70-85 range. Many jpegs are are already saved at a low quality, but photo-sets are often at higher levels
- Select "Optimize Huffman Table" for a tiny filesize saving
- You can switch off the "Keep..." options to remove the embedded picture data too (e.g. camera model, date picture was taken etc.) a tiny filesize saving.
- Press "OK" on the options dialog, and "Go" on the batch processing dialog

When you have found JPG settings you like, you can make them the defaults by going to the main XnView menu: "Tools>>Options>>General>>Read/Write>>JPEG" and set your preferences there.

 

[treckerman]

Try out ACDSee Pro,a software for pict/vid.:grassdance:

 

[DevilXdevil]

like treckerman said ACDSee pro is a good tool for batch processing

you can try lightroom a bit more difficult to use then ACDSee pro but both have the same thing

personally i used ACDSee pro cuz its simpler to batch edit/convert/resize photos

but when i edit picture i use lightroom

 

[guy]

I used to use ACDSee exclusively, but in recent years ACDSee has gotten very big (comparatively slow startup, all kinds of features I really don't need in a simple image viewer like categorization, etc). Plus it isn't free.

For the purposes of basic batch processing, XnView will do everything ACDSee Pro can do (and in fact, much more), albeit with a few extra mouse clicks. You can even use the portable no-install version of XnView, without fear of it hijacking your extensions or system settings (which sadly I can no longer say is true with ACDSee).

Lightroom is another alternative, but again not free, and for the purposes of merely re-compressing JPEG images, it would be absolutely overkill. Plus getting images into and out of LR catalogs is probably even more tedious.

 

[DevilXdevil]

i dont have those problems and every program thats worth something isnt free

and besides if downloading porn isnt a problem then downloading a cracked program shouldnt be too

 

[Rollyco]

If you're interested in just one function, there's a tiny shell extension that does only resizing: http://imgresizer.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

Might want to give it a try. Otherwise I recommend XNView.