Freeware Photo Compression fo Internet?

[Chris23]

Whilst I can easily find photo resizing software I have having trouble finding freeware that will compress photos to make them easier to download by non broadband users from a forum. I use Windows 98SE.

Any ideas please.

hris

[bsuttie]

Try this . . .

It is much more than just a resizing utility however

regards

Brian

[Paul Shirley]

...or http://www.xnview.com or even http://www.imagemagick.org

[Chris23]

Thank you.

I think that I am confused in that I see resizing as physically altering the size eg 1600x1200 to 640x480 as different to compression ie retaining the physical size but making the file smaller. The software highlights one but not the other in its description.

Now which to try. Um..............

Does this do the compresasion as I have had it recommended by someone else on the other forum & I am not sure:

http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

Chris

[T0MAT01]

I don't know about the others, but Picassa2 from google lets you alter the image size and jpeg quality independently when you export an image. And it's free.

http://picasa.google.co.uk/

HTH

EDIT: ah it wont run on win98 tho. d'oh!

[Chris23]

TOMATO1

Thanks for the Picasa suggestion but it is Windows 2000/XP only & I have Windows 98 SE.

Chris

[Zone]

There is a 98se version of Picasa here.

Personally I'd recommend Irfanview.

[Chris23]

I did not know Irfanview would do this.

Have found it now & it works great. Thank you

Chris

[MancMale]

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html

Paint.net is free and good but alas on checking it needs


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