Thread: Photo size ?

1 meg is rather large for a photo for the broadband challenged (thank you for nothing, Telstra, I laugh every time your share price drops), as it takes around four minutes to download.

You should be able to get your pics down to around 100k without loosing detail. See this forum thread for more info.

A jpg file is an image file that has been stored using a lossy compression (data is permanently removed from the image) algorithim. The final result is not as good as the original, but think of it as the photo equivalent of those tv game show disclaimers - "portions of this program not relevant to the outcome have been edited from this broadcast"

Or read about jpg in detail here.

Feed your photo files through jpegcompress (windows) or smallimage (mac) -- both freeware, see google -- and fiddle with the settings to compress the file size while keeping the size of the image the same. At extreme levels of compression, you start to loose image quality, but for anything up to about 3/4 of your computer screen size, you should be able to get them below 100kBytes.