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Title: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: Roger_the_Shrubber on December 06, 2002, 02:35:41 am

I have a considerable number of HUGE (both hard-copy physical & kb-wise) jpg files. Could someone please recommend a reasonably priced solution to reduce these to an e-mailable/web-pageable size?

Thanks guys.....

MC9 lookin' excessively well & good......but won't the name be confused with similar ones out of Seattle (the name only!!!!)?

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: JimH on December 06, 2002, 03:55:14 am

Yeah, I suppose people may run into the Seattle MC when they look for ours.  I think it's a new product category.  And ours is named "JRiver Media Center".  Theirs is "Windows XP Media Center Edition".

I use Lview for image editing.  It does a nice job of resizing.  It's around $40 and there is a trial version.  It's Lview Pro 2002 on this page:

http://www.lview.com/index800.htm

Hope you're doing well down there.  I had a look around the web site for your town on your profile and it looks like a really nice place.

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: rocketsauce on December 06, 2002, 08:50:57 am

http://www.irfanview.com/

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: KingSparta on December 06, 2002, 09:02:07 am

I prefer

http://www.photodex.com

And I have been a registered user since 1993 when it was a DOS version (Called GDS).

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: John Gateley on December 06, 2002, 11:07:46 am

If you use linux, The Gimp works well, and you can run it in batch mode too...

j

Title: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: phelt on December 06, 2002, 12:42:52 pm

My picks:

For free - I will second the suggestion of IrfanView. Another to watch for the future is Slowview (http://www.slowview.at/).

For advanced JPEG work, I like JPEG Wizard (http://www.pegasusimaging.com/softwareapps.htm). Define levels of compression and color fidelity for different regions of an image... sweet.

For batch processing, conversion, etc, I'm partial to EyeBatch (http://www.atalasoft.com/eyebatch/).

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: KingSparta on December 06, 2002, 03:50:01 pm

>> For batch processing, conversion, etc, I'm
>> partial to EyeBatch.
CPIC from has a very powerfull batch conversion on the pro version
 
http://www.photodex.com/

yes it is not cheep

I think there was another program called somthing like "Thumb Pic" or "thumb View" that was not bad

Title: Re: OT - *.jpg reduction & compression software
Post by: Roger_the_Shrubber on December 06, 2002, 06:25:46 pm

Thanks for all the advice/recommendations. I'll keep you posted re my findings.

Thanks for the kind words Jim. Yeah, I'm doing well....Africa is a good place to be....