Is there anything out there that can automatically resize a jpg so it’s 55k perhaps letting me crop it 1st?
This is for an animal shelter web page hosted by petfinder.org. Petfinder only allows uploads of 55k or smaller but it is a real pain in the as…um arm to manually resize it.
Thanks
It can be done pretty easily in CorelDRAW. Are you talking about something that will be an ongoing effort, or is it a one time deal? If it’s the latter I can do it for you.
#624 on the list of things I never thought I’d get to say…
Yup, that Ringo sure is quick on the DRAW
Thanks for the offer but this is an ongoing effort (new animals come in all the time and some are adopted out).
I currently use acdsee but it is many clicks to accomplish the goal. and it is trial and error. I can’t just say reduce this to 55k - I have to say reduce jpg quality to 50% size to xxx,yyy pics. In short very combersome
How is corelDRAW in doing it - can I just say reduce this to 55k?
I just DL’ed and installed some free image resizer at http://www.mihov.com/eng/ir.html . It allows batch resizing which is good but again I can’t do it directly by file size.
Yep, I think getting the file size just right might be tricky without a programme that previews the amended image before you save. Both Photoshop (5.5 and up) and Fireworks do it but they’re expensive.
It does sound like you need the preview feature, though – that way you can combine cropping with other tools (that let you see how a lower quality image looks in different formats) before committing yourself.
Maybe Paint Shop Pro has that preview facility ?
In CorelDRAW you impoort the file and then export it.
You’ll get a dialog box with the picture’s particulars listed, which you can change. One part of this dialogue box lists the heigth and width in pixels. Another part tells you the file size.
There are up and down arrows beside the pixel dimension listings you can use to change them. You click on the box to maintain aspect ratio and then just hold down the down arrow beside either pixel dimension while watching the file size shrink.
Corel has continued to sell previous versions for much cheaper prices. So, when I bought version 7.0 for ~$400, you could still buy versions 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0 for as low as $20. I don’t know if they still do that. I believe they’re on version 9.0 now.
Oh yeah, you can crop in CorelDRAW as well.
I might have an old version of corerdraw now that I think of it. It came w/ my scanner (high end hp). I have to see if I can dig it out.
If you have access to a Mac, GraphicConverter (free) will let you tweak the JPEG lossiness/detail level before you save a file, and it will calculate and display the size of your resulting file as you do so.
Paint Shop Pro 7 has a JPEG wizard that will quickly calculate file sizes at different compression levels befor you save.
While you can’t just tell it to compress something to, say 55k, it might work.
If you want to do it absolutely cheap (free), this is what I used to do before I got PaintShop.
I would save the image to my HD. If it wasn’t .bmp I’d have to convert it using Imaging (with “Save As”). (Newer versions of Paint works with .jpg automatically)
Once it was converted to .bmp, I would resize it with Paint, then use Imaging to save it as a .jpg file.
Sorry it’s confusing, but it worked fine for me, and it was absolutely free. 
Free ways to do it I got, I’m looking for the easiest way - with an easy free way topping the list.
No Mac
I guess there is not enough demand for my requirements
Well Photoshop has a “Save For Web” option, that lets you select quality, size, etc. and preview the results before saving. But that’s an expensive piece of software.
Paint Shop Pro is basically the “poor man’s” Photoshop. It can do pretty much anything Photoshop can do, but differently. It only costs $99 however (“only” compared to Photoshop).
I also had a program called “Graphics Workshop” but it might be a multi-operation conversion.
You can also get Photoshop Elements, which is Adobe’s official “Photoshop Light” program. it also costs $99(*), has a “save to web” option, and gives you the extra benefit of not having to re-learn a new application if you decide to graduate to the full-blown Photoshop.
(* = I paid less for mine, thanks to eBay)
Everything you can do in The Gimp ( www.gimp.org ) can be scripted, so it should be able to do what you ask, and it’s free.
The trouble is finding a script that does this (I assume you don’t want to learn how to script yourself). Maybe go to one of the scripts pages, and email one of the guys there, and ask if they’ll do it for you.
Considering some of the other things they’ve done, it sounds like it should be a walk in the park, but I don’t know anything about graphics stuff…