Does anyone know how to reduce the kb's in a gallery image without lowering the quality too much?

I am using Irfan View, and i think it's wonderful :) Search for it on google. Have a wonderful weekend.   "Sophie"

Paint Shop Pro is a reasonably priced image editor and does a great job. If you can't afford that try what Sophies suggested.
I agree with Sophies qoute,..............definitely don't feed the cat,........not with me.  That cat's gonna be a sorry piece of fur if'n it tries to eat me.

Sophies the cat **sackrat the rat sounds like a feast to me lol.
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Attached Link: Pixia

I use it for file downsizing set save quality to %85 will change a 500k to 85k with little quality loss

I have the earlier ver. love it for what it does don't know about v. 3.3

I got PS8cs&PDpro 3.5 and iview3.85 but pixia is my signature/file reducer

Try it if you don't like you can get rid of it (has uninstaller) and it completely free.

If you have paintshop pro, try to fiddle around in the jpg options. There's some option, I dont remember the name and can't check it at this computer. but it allows u to change the sampling or the jpg or whatever. It's a dropdown list with settings with numbers like 4x1 1x1 1x1, 4x2 2x2 2x2 etc. change them around to see what it does to the file size.

I dont know exactly how they work. but the one that starts with 1x1 seems to do particularly good at keeping color detail accurate, which is handy on images which benefit from pure pixel precision (helpfull with web designs and such).

The rest I dont know exactly. All I know is that there's often quite a few kb's of difference between the best and the worst results and which setting is best usually varies for every picture. Finding the best visual quality/compression compromise is a trial and error effort for each picture you compress.

 There's some option, I dont remember the name and can't check it at this computer.

 (PSP7) When u click "save as" in PSP.  the save window will have an options button.  Click the options button to select the jpeg compression rate.  One annoying thing though is whatever you set the rate at it remembers the setting for future saves instead of going back to default 1 which is uncompressed. 

yea i know that part. but in the options wizzard, on one of the tabs, i think the one where u set the compression rate. there's also a dropdown menu to set some sampling modes. though it might be that it's only there since version 8 or such if it isn't in psp7?

Rayraz

(PSP9) I think you referring to save as/options/run_optiomizer/use_wizard   to view the chroma subsampling changes. 

I've got'em both

adobe imageready -compresses and has the option of whatever quality you want.. works fine with me..
can be found in the  file-save for web section of photoshop.

If you use Irfan View go with a jpg quality of 85%-90%. Larger dimension images can be saved at lower values with less noticable artifacts. I don't think I would go below 75% though.

I usually upload to the galleries with an image width of 1024 pixels, and I almost always go with about 85%, no matter what program I am using. (the programs I use, all use a percentage slider)

www.irfanview.com  (freeware)

yea skiwillgee, that's the one i meant! it was the chroma subsampling. It's a handy feature. can often take just those few extra kbytes off ur filesize and such. It's there in psp8 for sure. dunno bout 7.

PSP 6 has an export wizard that makes nicely reduced .jpgs. But I guess that's ol' school now. Works good for that though.

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PSP7 export usewizard adjust the slider next read output size hit back to adjust or finish to save as.

Works for me!

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