Hey all,specially the non-advantage members, this is the software you need to compress your JPEG to size below 125 kb without losing its quality. Now you can save your work at maximum quality and then compress your JPEG without losing any quality.


Advanced JPEG Compressor
* Easily reduce the large file sizes of your graphic files

* Impressive file size reduction without losses in picture quality! Smaller files take less space and up and download faster. Effectively optimize photos for faster loading from the Web and faster sending by e-mail - avoid exceeding size limits. Compress scanned documents for storage/transferal. Prepare images to meet any special size requirements Advanced JPEG Compressor easily transforms your digital photos into any size you need.
* Resize photos to any specified dimension or file size: thumbnails, photos for a web site, auction pictures, ads, web graphics or for job tasks. Convert images to JPEG from other formats.

I think this info help you all.
AceManoj.

Wont let you save the image unless you buy it. Goes from 450kb to 63kb... good compression tho but you can notice some pixelation.

Have you used the 'compression level' sliders.
Move them both to min and activate 'set target' with a blue icon button. Know zoom up for the difference .

If you want you can get the cracked software on torrent sites or P2P. I don't know is this ok to discuss on PSC.

acemanoj

no, it's not

As you say Grefix, I will not discuss such things. Thanks for reply.
acemanoj

DewDew top secret time.....(windows only)

Trick Paint into thinking you change the file.


1. Save your work in ps jpeg format around 300kb max.
2. Once saved. Close the file in ps.
3. Open the folder you saved the jpeg in.
4. Right click the jpeg file,scroll down and set the "open with" to "windows paint" (all window come prelaoded with a version of paint.)
5. Once the file is in paint ("now this is the part you may do your own thing")
I take the line tool ,and find a place that is the darkest on the file, and make a small line. Now undo the line in the edit menu if you want. If you can't see it there is no need, but i still undo.
6. Now go to the "file menu" and "save as"
7. Save the file ("no need to change the file name if you don't want too") in jpeg format
8. Close paint and open the folder you saved the jpeg file in. Place your arrow over the file and it should tell you how many kb's it is.

If done correctly it should be within the 125 kb limit. With no loss of resolution.
I wish i knew how much compression actually takes place but i know it's a reduction of about half ex. 300kb ps to 150kb paint.

Someone like grefix, tofu, rein, rey2, or splodge may be able to help you more. This is just a little secret i stumbled upon while messing around with the two programs.

No it's not hope you not mad at me grefix. Just to show you I'm trying. This is a reader friendly (took forever ) reply.

Hope this helps out ACE.

DewDew's secret revealed - I followed the well outlined procedure (this time I WAS able to follow the instructions for a change), and, yes, the resulting file is smaller than the original. (450KB jpg saved in PS at quality settings 11 vs 147KB jpg saved in Paint). Now, to the subject of "no loss of resolution" - there is an obvious loss in quality due to higher compression. It may look ok compared side to side, but the compression is there - I brought the jpg from Paint back into PS and put it on a separate layer in Difference mode over the original, flattened and adjusted the levels to highlight the changes (i.e. difference) and they seem to be dramatic. At "no loss of quality" the resulting image would remain black.


The way I see it, MS Paint will reduce the file by a) stripping the EXIT/ITPC/Color Profile information embedded in the jpg and b) applying a lot of jpg compression, which I found no setting control with.

mayhaps dew'd should have worded it as "no percieved loss of resolution/quality"?

Glad you could read the reply volk.

Oh well ace its back to your torrent p2p.

Thanks volk for saving the ace from dewdew destruction.Any one else need help........what.............anyone...........anyone......awweee come on.

I got half right.......sorta.....kinda.........

There's tons of information about JPG compression to be found on the Internet. In my workflow I use a free image viewer/converter called XnView
I will typically flatten a copy of the PSD, resize it according to the PSC rules, final tweaks + color adjustments + sharpening as I see fit and save this final version as a TIFF file (i.e. lossless format). I open the TIFF file in XnView and save as JPG tweaking the advanced JPG options to get the file size I need - the results (file-size-wise) are much better than PS, mainly because I'm able to strip a bunch of built-in data (EXIT/ITPC/Color Profile) that is not really needed in a PSC entry, plus the JPG optimization seems to work better than PS

Remember what i said about skimming grefix. Watch as i do it with tofu .
Come on that was funny ......kinda......sorta......

Here's some light reading about the extra data stored in a typical JPG
http://www.fieggen.com/software/jpgextra_techinfo.htm