hay all i need help in reducing my pictures down to no more than 20kb they are taken on a digi camera at its lowest res of 2.1mpixles i have so far used software called irfanvue but to get down to 20kb the image is around 120 pixles i need around 200x140 pixles the pics are of crashed cars and the images need uploading to the police contract people and there limit is 20kb per image help

Try Pixresizer - it allows you to specify the picture size by pixel size as well as reducing it by a percentage. I find it very very easy to use anyway for resizing pics for this site

Linky to download site

You need to alter the compresion ratio (quality) if you want small file size for a large resultion.

Ive not sure pauls suggested software but it sounds like it could do the job.

I use an old beta version of paintshop (free of a mag cover) and just resize to suit, tweaking the compresion ratio at point of saving untill its about right.



Daniel

My avatar pic is 200 x 150 pixels and is 14k in size according to the photo gallery so hope this is helpful. Cant remember what the original pic was so might not be too useful - as said the compression ratio may need to be altered (or simply set the camera(s) up to suit if thats an option)

THANKS PAUL well that software works a little blurry but i can get 250 pix in 18kb nice one everybody

Gimp is a brilliant free programme that is like photoshop. Worth a look.

^^^ yeah, get TheGimp. Extremely powerful program and aswell as setting size by pixels you can change the quality of the compression.

all ive got to do now is upload around 250 different cars

Well if you doing a lot, look at Jasc imagerobot.
- Thats what i tend to use for batch image processing/resizing.