Computers File shrinking

I was hoping someone could tell me a good way to shrink an image file without losing the size. Shrinking the quality didn't help much. It is a JPG file. I guess it has to of had a good resolution. I do not want to use paint that is just so wrong after adobe. Any ideas how? Is there something after jpg?

 

i think she means like changing 45K into 25K. downing the space it takes up.

i dont really know how to do that. i can do it with video, but thats easy.

 

The lowest size is J-Peg, as far as I know. At least that will keep good quality. GIF may be something you wanna try, but it'll kinda screw with the quality quite a bit.

If you just wanna size the pixels down, just use Photoshop. It's gonna size down the size, and the amount of space

-Seishin

 

well i use irfanview that is pretty cool and simple and Shrinking the image quality in that program will help!

you can give it a try.

 

You could always try png, and if it's photoshop, gifs still save pretty well.

 

Gifs are usually the best file extension to use if you are gonna make a homepage. Small and they are pretty decent

I feel sorry for 56k members browsing random peoples pages with a 700kb JPEG background, cut into 7 seperate files.

- Teddz

 

I think I got my question answered. I did Gif btw. You can see my avatar for why I needed it.

 

(What happened to Sesshomaru? )

You mind if I ask you for the original pic? I'd like to see some like "before and after" in both sized pixels and Kb on GIF, since I always use PNG.

Great to see GIF worked for you!

-Seishin

 

I had him for over a year. I think it was time to change.

Sure first attached pic.

NP. Look at the attachments. I made a few (over 30) Bleach Avatars to switch back and forth too. Its my new obsession. Along with Naruto will make some of those at some point.

If you want more examples I'll put more up.

-JPG
-Gif

I don't see a difference in these yet.

 

Well for doing avatars for a small image isn't bad. I guess as the picture is bigger that will change I take it? Is PNG also have a low size like GIF?

 

Yeah, but usually GIF is lower. Also, the quality may worsen on GIF in some programs (mainly paint). PNG is a small file, and keeps it's true quality.

-Seishin

 

So why did you not suggest PNG earlier, SakataKentaro?

 

yeah, i forgot about the PNG format. yeah i guess that works then

 

The method I use to shrink my Gifs for my own sigs is to go into photoshop, do my work, and when im all done I "Save for Web" under the file menu. This brings up a new page that has a host of options to shrink filesize, everything from different features of the image to image quality. Hell, just by saving the file this way (without touching anything at all in the new screen) the images are usually under the file cap, whereas by saving it normally, it's a much larger file that I have to lower the quality to get it to fit.

~W

 

Filesize is a big issue with some of my friends. Their sig images typically take up in the area of 3 megs, at a size of ~500x250.

Yeah. It's pushing it.

S'why I use MSPaint and HP Image Zone. I usually crop and resize in Image Zone, add text in MSPaint and save as .bmp, then I copy/paste it into a new MSPaint file and save as bmp again. Then I open it in Image Zone and save it as a jpg. No filesize worries for me with that method.

 

I figured it out. Use photoshop .gif Thanks for whoever said that.

There is a lot less steps.