Saving Photos

[MJG]

Hi: Someone in another (Yahoo Group) asked this question - he is saving
photos, but his system saves them as as a large .BMP filesize. Is there a
setting to change that will save them as a smaller .JPG filesize?

Thanks...Mike

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "MJG" <[email protected]>

| Hi: Someone in another (Yahoo Group) asked this question - he is saving
| photos, but his system saves them as as a large .BMP filesize. Is there a
| setting to change that will save them as a smaller .JPG filesize?
|
| Thanks...Mike
|

Too vague to answer.

Saving photos - how ?
What software ?
What is the source of these graphics ?

 

[MJG]

Well, he right-clicks on the image, chooses 'save' using WinXP, and they are
probably from Yahoo Groups, and thats all I know. It isn't me. I must tell
you that I also see that some of my own saved images are in .bmp format
too...Mike...someone suggested that he clean out his temp files. I cleaned
mine out, and they all save as .jpg now.

 

[philo]

Well, he right-clicks on the image, chooses 'save' using WinXP, and they are
probably from Yahoo Groups, and thats all I know. It isn't me. I must tell
you that I also see that some of my own saved images are in .bmp format
too...Mike...someone suggested that he clean out his temp files. I cleaned
mine out, and they all save as .jpg now.

<snip>

here is some good freeware

http://www.irfanview.com/

it's an image viewer that will allow you to save your images in just about
any format you want
with plenty of good options

 

[Elmo]

Hi: Someone in another (Yahoo Group) asked this question - he is saving
photos, but his system saves them as as a large .BMP filesize. Is there a
setting to change that will save them as a smaller .JPG filesize?

Thanks...Mike

BMP does no compressing so there's no loss in resolution; most other
formats cause you to lose quality. If he doesn't mind losing the
quality, Irfanview is one free program that will allow him to change the
format (and extension) of the image.