Resizing jpegs

Arbu · Jan 22, 2005

If you have a photo in jpeg format and you reduce its dimensions through Microsoft Paint and then save it, the size of the file doesn't reduce at all. But if you save it as a new file, it does. Why? This is very annoying because I'm trying to reduce the size of some photos to download them to the Internet and it seems I will have to go through each photo and save it as a new one. Is there any way that I can reduce the size of a jpeg file without creating a copy of it?

Digital Matt · Jan 22, 2005

Don't use MS Paint, please!

Get Photoshop Elements, which is $92.25 at Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-105-124&depa=0

If that's too much to spend, download the gimp at least.

http://www.gimp.org/

MS Paint is not photo editing software.

Force of Nature · Jan 22, 2005

Id second that one mate.

Rogue Monk · Jan 23, 2005

At the very least, you should save a new file anyway.

Why would you want to destroy the original file? If you did that, you won't be able to edit it later, should you need to. And what happens if what you saved wasn't what you wanted?

Never overwrite your original files.