January 12, 2006

IMAGE COMPRESSION SOFTWARE?

Can anyone recommend any good free software for image compression?

Currently, I usually use Photo Crunch. It's a small, intuitive piece of software that does only one thing - compress images - and does it well. I love the live preview feature so you can tell what your image will look like and what size it will be BEFORE you do something irreversible. The only downside is that it's $8.

It's WORTH it, especially if you tend to post pictures every day like I do, but still...

Anyway, I know that Irfanview is free, and you CAN use it to compress images, but it doesn't have a live preview feature. You just have to guess how far to compress the image, then check it afterwards. Useable, but not user friendly (on THAT feature, anyway. It's great for everything else).

Any suggestions?

Posted by: Harvey at 05:49 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 MS Office Picture Manager does it wonderfully well and it's free. I believe that even if you don't have it, you can download some version of it from MS.

Posted by: caltechgirl at January 12, 2006 06:47 PM (uI/79)

2 You're bitchin' about $8 software... you friggin putz!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at January 12, 2006 09:53 PM (SyfL7)

3 I use Gimp on the odd occasion when I post a picture. Very UN-intuitive interface though... but very good at letting you undo changes.

Posted by: GEBIV at January 12, 2006 10:44 PM (sqYeC)

4 MW - Sure. I bitch about anything that costs more than a quarter. Which is why I never bitch about yo mama :-P GEBIV - Yeah, GIMP's got like a 10-hour learning curve just to figure out how to draw a straight line :-)

Posted by: Harvey at January 12, 2006 11:04 PM (ubhj8)

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