If they are JPEG then they are already compressed so attempting to compress them further will not yield any further reduction in size and could actually increase it!
Yes but surely reducing a image from 1.5MB to 30KB you would definitely lose quality? Don't think half scott would like that.
If I was you I'd buy a few memory cards
I get the impression that the OP would like to upload them to the net in compressed form, not save them to disc/card at full res?Would it not be easier to just buy a small 10 pack of cd's and burn the photos on to them in the cafe? You'd get 7Gb of space for under a tenner. 10 cd's should'nt take up much luggage space - and for the equivilant flash (7x1Gb cards) you'd easily pay over €125.
I get the impression that the OP would like to upload them to the net in compressed form, not save them to disc/card at full res?
Im aware thats the ideal... i'm just offering an alternative. If it were me, I'd prefer to edit/compress/sort my photos out in a relaxed environment at home rather than in some internet cafe in SE Asia. Just my two pence.
I was talking a out compressing the existing JPEG which will yield little, no or negative (i.e. an increase in size) compression because this is what happens when you attempt to compress already compressed date. You seem to be talking about reducing the image quality which will indeed yield a reduction in size. Different horses for different courses.Not necessarily true. A lot of digital cameras (incl. mine) are set to save images in the JPEG format. This would be usually be 1 - 1.5 Mb per picture.
If the Internet Cafe has Mcrosoft Office 2003 installed you can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to compress your pictures to a suitable size for emailing etc. say 30k per picture.
Sn@kebite- How do I zip by WinRAR or WinZIP please?
Sn@kebite- How do I zip by WinRAR or WinZIP please?
How many times do I have to say this ... compressing already compressed data will yield marginal, no or possibly even negative reductions in size! JPEG is already compressed data so compressing it again may increase the size! Try it or Google for "compressing compressed data" if you don't believe me.I think the best way to upload all the photos is to ZIP them with WinRAR or WinZIP, preferably RAR cause it seems to give mebetter compression.
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