Free program to reduce .jpg file size

Xeno

Recently went on a vacation and took a massive amount of photos. For some stupid reason, I took pictures at the best quality which was useless in the end because the resolution was like 2800x2100 or something ridiculous like that. Anyways, we want to send over email a lot of the pictures to some people in Poland and a lot of them have slow internet. The average size of pictures are about 3.5mb. So it'll be well over 100mb in total when its all said and done.

So are there any free programs out there that will shrink the filesizes of these pics. The smaller the filesize, the better, but I also don't want to drastically reduce the image quality.

Thanks guys!

Basar

XP Powertoys Image Resizer

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

Improvolone

You could also upload them to Flickr

Fantasma

IrfanView, and it is free.

RUNN1NGMAN

Doesn't MS Paint also resize image files?

JohnnyCache

Fantasma wrote: »

IrfanView, and it is free.

I use this at work, it's great. Good for doing quite a number of things w/o firing up photoshop or something.

Pulvaan

I third Irfanview. You can batch convert photos.

You just have to select the photos/folder you want to convert, set the conversion levels, and it does it all for you.

Phoenix-D

RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »

Doesn't MS Paint also resize image files?

Yes. It does so VERY BADLY, however.

shutz

I fourth Irfanview. It loads almost instantly, can do all sorts of automated image manipulation, and even some manual manipulations, batch conversions, and it's the best simple image viewer I've ever used.

Also, I can understand wanting to shrink your images, but consider also that some of these pictures might be served by a little manual cropping before you resize them. That way, you get to keep more of what's important to you, and discard the parts of images that don't interest you. This will mean more work on your part, though.

Dalboz

I'll fifth Irfanview if that's all you want to do. I've been using it for about ten years now, and it's pretty damn good.

However, if you want to do that or anything else, you could try GIMP. It's essentially a GNU version of Photoshop, so if you want to do anything else with the photos (change luminescence, saturation, etc.), you could try that.

shutz

Dalboz wrote: »

I'll fifth Irfanview if that's all you want to do. I've been using it for about ten years now, and it's pretty damn good.

However, if you want to do that or anything else, you could try GIMP. It's essentially a GNU version of Photoshop, so if you want to do anything else with the photos (change luminescence, saturation, etc.), you could try that.

I second GIMP. It's the closest thing to Photoshop that you can get for free (well, legally, anyway) and it will let you do all the image editing that Irfanview won't let you, unless you're a professional graphic artist, in which case you wouldn't be asking your original question in the first place.

Crashtard

I use Irfanview as well, and it's incredibly easy and very quick.

contagious_d

http://www.getpaint.net/

I use paint.NET on my laptop, it won't run photoshop. It is pretty nice, and has cropping and resizing. More work than using Irfanview though.

Æthelred

Basar wrote: »

XP Powertoys Image Resizer

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

This is godlike and I install it on every computer I use. Why bother faffing around with using a program when you can select all your files in a normal Windows folder, right-click and resize everything to whatever resolution you want?

Crashtard

Æthelred wrote: »

Basar wrote: »

XP Powertoys Image Resizer

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

This is godlike and I install it on every computer I use. Why bother faffing around with using a program when you can select all your files in a normal Windows folder, right-click and resize everything to whatever resolution you want?

See, that statement made me go download it. Can't wait to try it out.

Basar

Æthelred wrote: »

Basar wrote: »

XP Powertoys Image Resizer

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

This is godlike and I install it on every computer I use. Why bother faffing around with using a program when you can select all your files in a normal Windows folder, right-click and resize everything to whatever resolution you want?

Totally. I use it for Image Resizing and Photoshop for my more advanced photo editing. No need for any other imaging software on my computer

DHS Odium

You've already had your question answered, but I wanted to pop in here to say what you did was not dumb or useless. You should ALWAYS take pictures at the best possible quality your camera can churn out. You can always downsize things later for email or web, but if you take a good picture at a shitty resolution, you are proper fucked if you want a nice printout of it, or a decent resolution zoomed in part.