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Is There a Program to Decrease the Size of My Jpeg's????

SamIchi

SamIchi

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I've read that when savin' Jpeg's in PS it also saves alot of unecessary information (color, header, etc....). So does anyone know of any programs for OSX that clean this up?
 
I found an easy way to do this through iPhoto and Mail. select the picture you'd like to resize in iPhoto, click on "email", it'll give you a few size choices, then it'll open the picture in Mail, just drag the resized picture wherever you want it.
 
FistfulofAngst said:
I found an easy way to do this through iPhoto and Mail. select the picture you'd like to resize in iPhoto, click on "email", it'll give you a few size choices, then it'll open the picture in Mail, just drag the resized picture wherever you want it.
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or you can just export the picture :-/
 
Umm I don't want to change the actual size of my images, I want to change how big the file size is so I can post it in my online photo sites and not have them resize cause of the big file size.

And I knew about the "save for the web" option, but that doens't always get it the way I like it. I'm lookin' for a program to erase the unecessary information that PS stores in the image.

Thanks though guys
 
Open the images in Preview, export them to jpeg. You can set size and/or quality of the jpeg files under jpeg options (even set a desired target size, that will not be exceeded). Nice'n'eazy 😉

That has to be the simplest way, even if Graphic Converter has some good batch routines (I haven't used GC in a while so I cannot tell you anything more specified 😱).
 
As far as stripping the stuff that Photoshop adds, see if you can find a program on versiontracker.com or macupdate.com that removes the resource fork from a file. That's where all the extra info (like the icon thumbnail) is stored... if you strip that off all you're left with is the data fork - which is the actual jpg image.

If the file sizes are still too big, then you'll need to use something like GraphicConverter to resave the jpg's, with a higher level of compression than what they were saved with before. (of course, if you're compressing a jpg, then the image quality suffers because the image has already been compressed once.... so start from the original image if you can)

If you purchased a Mac within the past couple of years, it probably came with GraphicConverter which is a great program for resizing any format of image.
 
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