Pictures guru please help

[1MoInput]

I dont' know much about image or editing, but lately just got a digital camera and jsut wonder how do I shrink my image without losing quality? I take my pics and their original size is around 600 to 1 mb. I can reduce them with paint, but is this the only way? I also notice my quality also reduced. Is there better way to reduce the size of your original without losing much quality? What is the best apps or ways for this?

[Sterling_Aug]

Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Photo Editor, or a number of other editors.

Check tucows.com, or zdnet.com for others.

[crossedup]

I use Paint shop pro for that myself but its not freeware.

Lets you resize by percentage or pixels.

[fancyf]

Originally posted by 1MoInput
Is there better way to reduce the size of your original without losing much quality? What is the best apps or ways for this?>> IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) <<

that's all you need, it's good, fast and free http://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/aww.gif

[r8500]

Originally posted by fancyf
>> IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) <<

that's all you need, it's good, fast and free http://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/aww.gif

I was wondering how long it would take :)

[fancyf]

Originally posted by r8500
I was wondering how long it would take :) I had to post it before BpB did :)

[mireland]

Originally posted by fancyf
I had to post it before BpB did :)

its hard to keep up with FancyF and BPB...:eek:

[BipolarBill]

The secret to lossless reduction and expansion of pictures is to convert them to BMP files first. Editing JPEGs and GIFs makes for ugly pictures.

[fancyf]

Editing JPEGs and GIFs makes for ugly pictures.I agree... and PNG format is pretty good too. What GIF-JPG lose PNG keeps.

[bruceb]

a program called 20/20 works very well

takes a little work to figure out how to use
all it's features

download it from:

http://www.hotfreeware.com