On Tuesday 27 January 2004 1:28 am, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:32, John wrote:
Using SuSE 8.2, we have recently moved into the realm of digital images ... What is the best way ... to compress a jpg file
A jpeg is a compressed file. ... Trying to compress it again ... may even result in a larger file size. [...] [in gimp] set its "quality" at 0.75 to 0.85 to produce fairly good results :)
For photographs, you can set the quality as low as .25 before "noticable" pixelation sets in -- I believe this is a slider control and will show you a "preview" as you move the slider (it may take a moment to re-render after you've moved the slider) so you can "experiment" with this a bit. I have done this for some LARGE "background" pictures for my website, and it managed to compress a 1.3 megapixel image down to 78k -- see http://osnut.homelinux.net/backgrounds/March.jpg for an example -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net