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Something to compress picture files?

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nmcgrawj

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Whats up guys, is there an easy way to compress a folder with pictures in it? I have to email them to people and the way they stand, the file is huge!

Any ideas? Or do i have to go through each picture and shrink it?
 

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I use this, it works great.

http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/
 

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Thanks for the quick response paul. I remember the thread you had with that site but couldnt find it when i searched.
 

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No problem Nate!
 

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Another option is Picasa (from Google). I have never used it, but I hear it is a very good picture editor and organizer. Plus it's free.
 

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why not just winzip the file?
 

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MysteryMachine said:
why not just winzip the file?
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I must be a winzip idiot cause i couldnt get it to shrink enough. It reduced it by a little...but nothing huge. That site Paul gave is just as quick and easy as winzip.
 

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nmcgrawj said:
I must be a winzip idiot cause i couldnt get it to shrink enough. It reduced it by a little...but nothing huge. That site Paul gave is just as quick and easy as winzip.
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Nate, you're not a winzip idiot. Winzip can only compress a file significantly when the source is de-compressed (text files and some CAD solid models can zip awesomely). BMP pictures will compress good because they are also a "naturally" decompressed format. JPEGS are already a compressed format, so you can't do much more. Using one of the file re-sizing programs actually re-encodes the image and you can better shrink the file size that way (but you suffer some loss of quality).
 

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ah ok. I have never really be able to get winzip to compress much either just figured i was doing something wrong
 

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illwood said:
Nate, you're not a winzip idiot. Winzip can only compress a file significantly when the source is de-compressed (text files and some CAD solid models can zip awesomely). BMP pictures will compress good because they are also a "naturally" decompressed format. JPEGS are already a compressed format, so you can't do much more. Using one of the file re-sizing programs actually re-encodes the image and you can better shrink the file size that way (but you suffer some loss of quality).
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ahhh that makes sense
 
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