Need to compress pics

[Rod and Denise Nikkel]

When I am putting pictures into a document I want to upload to the net, I need to compress them since we and a lot of people who read them are still on dial up. When I import a picture into Word, and go into the Format Picture section, I can ask that it compress the picture. When I ask it to do that, I get a box that asks if I want to use “picture optimizationâ€Â. What does this do and what does it mean as far as size goes? Thank you for your help. Denise

[JustWakinUp]

Hey Rod,

I'm not sure what type of image you are using. But lets say it's a digital from a digital camera. I would suggest getting GIMP. It's a free image editor that is fairly easy to use.

Once you have gimp installed and get your image opened in gimp you can do the following.

Above the image that is opened goto image/scale image and then give it the size you would like.

That way the image doesn't need any compression via MS Word. Also you will be able to adjust

and manage any other photos you may have by using this program. If you need any help with it

feel free to ask.

You can download gimp http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

I know it doesn't directly answer your question at hand, but it will resolve any image issues in the future.

[Rod and Denise Nikkel]

I have Microsoft (sorry all you tech people who know better) Office Picture Manager. It will compress with options of Documents, Web pages and E-mails. Total initial size of 5 pictures = 5.15 MB. At document setting compresses to 1.38 MB. At web-page setting compresses to 272 KB and at e-mail setting to 34.7 KB. I imported the same 5 pictures full sized into Word and added some commentary. Word compressed them at document setting (200 dpi – as if I know what that really means…) to 123 KB, and it looks OK printed out. So I can just do that, but…

I was doing the same thing a while ago, and the stupidcomputer managed to compress one page I was working on with 11 pictures on it to 90KB. How did it do that? It still looks OK printed out too. I would like it to be that small, but I don’t know what it did to get it that small. I wonder if this picture optimization thing has anything to do with it. But then, when I don’t click Apply, just Cancel, it doesn’t seem to compress anything at all. AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!

[rdb]

Just download Irfanview. It's about the best picture viewer for Windows. There's an easy learning curve, and can compress according to your wants. Drag and drop pix right to it. Snap.

http://www.irfanview.com/

[Guest]

For putting pictures on here and on Photobucket, I use Picasa from Google. It's free and easy to use.

Dave Theobald

[Billsotx]

I messed with irfanview for weeks and never figured it out. You better know something about computers to figure that out. I know I don't know nothing and couldn't figure that one.

[rdb]

If you can't figger irfanview out, you shouldn't be messin' with guns either...lol

[Johanna]

Picture Manager is built into MS Office. When you use it to optimize and compress pics it automatically reduces the picture's resolution to 96 dots per inch (dpi) if you saved the doc as a web page, and 200 dpi saved as a .doc. When a picture is taken, there is file information associated with that picture that can't be seen (tags) like the camera name and date and leftover data from any manipulations of the file that can be ignored. "Optimization" removes the extraneous stuff.

If anyone is looking for a good image editor, Irfanview is easy to use, powerful and free.

Johanna

[bruce johnson]

Johanna,

I am thinking it was you who mentioned Powertoy Image Resizer somewhere. If it was, I owe you one. If not, I still owe you one, just not over this. It is the simplest one I have found to resize pictures. Right click on the picture. A drop menu shows up, click resize. It gives me a choice of small, medium, or large. Choose and thats it. It puts the resized pic in the same folder with the reduced size designation. It was a free download, and worth every penny.

[Johanna]

Powertoy Image Resizer even lets you do a batch of pics at once. Use the Control key to highlight your selections, then right click and choose a size. New pics are placed in the same folder, and old pics are not lost or changed.

Johanna