# What's your favorite place to shrink pictures on-line?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-place-to-shrink-pictures-on-line/99048
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 19, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-place-to-shrink-pictures-on-line/99048 "2002-03-19T15:16:34Z")
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### Author:  [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-place-to-shrink-pictures-on-line/99048/1 "2002-03-19T15:16:34Z")
I just went to **Pammipoo’s** long-loading website.
[http://bounce.to/Bubbleism](http://bounce.to/Bubbleism) =
[http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Bubbleism/](http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Bubbleism/)
I have shrunk the current problem, the two pictures.
They were probably just put in big and sized by entering into an automatic formatter. That shrunk the image, but makes the whole thing load anyway. All **323,785 bytes** , in one case, just to display a 159x180 image.
( **Pammipoo** - I shrunk them for you and left samples at my fathom website, where you can copy them onto your Angelfire site.)
When shrunk, they become this small:
[http://fff.fathom.org/pages/annalamerino/glitterkeet.jpg](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/annalamerino/glitterkeet.jpg) - 8,272 bytes
[http://fff.fathom.org/pages/annalamerino/Mojo\_Jojo.jpg](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/annalamerino/Mojo_Jojo.jpg) - **6,431 bytes**
HOW can you do this shrinking from the web? I knew a place but it went to pay format. Anybody know a free one?
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### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-place-to-shrink-pictures-on-line/99048/2 "2002-03-19T19:04:47Z")
How about [http://www.nbswebfx.com/](http://www.nbswebfx.com/)
It does shrinking, but I’m not sure if that’s what you want.
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### Author:  [@Rutabegger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rutabegger)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-place-to-shrink-pictures-on-line/99048/3 "2002-03-20T17:35:35Z")
Most of NetMechanic’s services cost, but [GifBot](http://www.netmechanic.com/GIFBot/optimize-graphic.htm) is free, and is specifically designed to reduce image file size.
IMHO, the resulting images are not always useable. But it’s worth a try - YMMV, as they say…