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

[SamIchi]

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?

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

Go to File->Save for Web in photoshop. I think that should take care of it.

 

[fistful]

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.

 

[Logik]

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.

or you can just export the picture :-/

 

[SamIchi]

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

 

[CanadaRAM]

Versiontracker.com is your friend

SmallImage
DroPic!
ImageConverter 1.3.5


Graphic Convertor http://lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm
Boxtop software ProJPEG http://www.boxtopsoft.com/


Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

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 ).

 

[SamIchi]

Thanks Guys!

 

[atari1356]

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.