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Originally Posted by smbotans
i would recommend irfanview from IrfanView.com, it is a very popular graphics viewer and will enable you to resize an image and/or reduce its size for use on the web
i use it regularly and have been very happy with it
ps one way to reduce the size of an image is to reduce its dpi to 72 as it is more than enough for web pages, dpi stands for 'dots per inch' |
That's what I was going to suggest, and is what I use. It's very simple to use and free. Just drag the image to the Desktop shortcut, chose to save as a jpg, then mess around with the slider control to see how low you can move it while keeping some image quality. Save each attempt (with a new name of course) then compare them all. (You can only "undo" ONE CHANGE to an image in IrfanView, so remember that if you change the image in any way).
You don't say what you want to do with images. If for the web, just resize it to small size or whatever you want, and save it with a save quality of about 75. Then use that as the thumbnail view linking to the large image opening in a separate window.
When resizing always use the resampling feature. If it's for email, 1.3mb shouldn't be any problem sending and receiving unless a dial-up is involved which could really slow things down.