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1.5MB Digital photos made smaller for zip file

Asked by Viv Sahinovic

I would like to send about 50 photos in a zip file to contacts overseas. I know how to create the zip file but my photos I have are 2560 x 1920 each and the file is too big and takes too long. How do I make my photos smaller. I have them stored on Shotwell Photo Manager. ?

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#1

You can achieve better compression using the bzip2 format. Save your images under a common directory. Then right click on that directory and choose "Compress". Use .tar.bz2 as the extension of the created file from the drop-down menu next to "Filename" and then press "Create".

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Compressing photos is not usually efficient, as each photos is already compressed in JPEG format.
Instead of sending your photos by mail, you could put them in a shared folder like:
   http://www.4shared.com/
or which one provided by your Internet provider (you can usually use space reserved for your personal Web page),
and only send a link to the archive.
Ubuntu One also offers you shared online storage.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

>I know how to create the zip file but my photos I have are 2560 x 1920 each and the file is too big >and takes too long. How do I make my photos smaller. I have them stored on Shotwell Photo >Manager. ?

Resize them (ie reduce the number of pixels in the image). To do this install the GNU image manipulation program "GIMP".

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/

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