Reducing a photo size (bytes)

[ABabeNChrist]

Is there a freeware out there, that can take reduce the amount of bytes a photo has. The reason why I'm asking is I have a report that can at times hold up to 100 photos, this can in turn make for a very large report, especially if each photo is between 2 and 7 MB . and not to mention the time it takes to print.

[JoeP]

You can use Photo Gallery - Windows Live.

I strongly recommend you save the re-sized photos to a different folder than the originals. You want to keep the originals in as high a fidelity state as you originally have them. You always lose a little bit when you resize photos.

Joe

[HansV]

FastStone Image Viewer (free) lets you specify compression options when you save a picture:

x31.jpg

Of course, you can also resize the picture etc. Other popular programs such as IrfanView have similar options.

[StuartR]

If you are using Microsoft Word to create your report then you can compress the pictures within Word.

• Word 2007
  • Select any picture in the document
  • Make sure the Picture Tools > Format tab is selected
  • Click Compress Pictures in the Adjust section of the tab
  • Choose the options you want and click OK
• Word 2003
  • Right click on any picture
  • choose Format Picture
  • Make sure the Picture tab of the dialog box is selected
  • click Compress...
  • Select "All pictures in document"
  • choose the other options you want and click OK

This may not do quite as good a job as dedicated graphics editors, but it is usually good enough and it operates on every picture in the document at once so can be very quick.

[ABabeNChrist]

Thank you HansV and JoeP and StuartR very much
This will defiantly help
I’ll be using photo reduction for both excel and word

[StuartR]

...I’ll be using photo reduction for both excel and word

The instructions that I posted also apply to Microsoft Excel

[ABabeNChrist]

Thank you StuartR
I knew word did, but I didnt know excel had this same option, I'll check it out and see if this may work.