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how do i make pictures smaller to email?

Asked by Angela Johnson

Hello,

I use gmail and i would like to know how i can make my pictures smaller so i can email pictures faster and send more pictures easily.

Kind Regards,

Angela Johnson

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can run:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

You can then use:

convert -resize 50% -quality 80 input.jpg output.jpg

You will now have a new file named output.jpg which will be 50% the size of input.jpg. Obviously change the filenames as you wish. You can also use this in scripts to resize a whole tonne of images in one command :)

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

actionparsnip like to use command lines.

you can use gimp to resize the image via the image menu item, then choose resize and resize to whatever you you like.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

This is a text based environment (a forum) so it makes sense. Plus its a very simple command :)

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