Best way to optimism and conpress images

[susan]

I have been trying ot reduce image size using paint but it seems ot end up with tiny images and still a lot of KB s . I can't see any option on this programme for compressing images only ways of reducing their size.

I have found a free download called image optimiser is this good ?? Are there any other free ones I could use I have the latest windows not sure if there's anything microsoft installed

Also any tips about mass editing or do I need to do each image file at a time its taking ages !!

thx ofr previous very useful answers I am using developer google and I find this very useful.

[Buzby]

We use Faststone Image Resizer, search Google for it.

[susan]

We use Faststone Image Resizer, search Google for it.

this is good but google developer still asks for Losslessly compressing I can't see any compressing function here am I missing something

[Duncan Rounding]

In Faststone you can reduce both the pixel size as well as the compression but this is not lossless. Lossless implies you can revert to a larger image without loss of quality which will not be the case.

I always use Faststone and never had issues. There are also other online services that can further trim off a few bytes but not really needed.

[susan]

In Faststone you can reduce both the pixel size as well as the compression but this is not lossless. Lossless implies you can revert to a larger image without loss of quality which will not be the case.

I always use Faststone and never had issues. There are also other online services that can further trim off a few bytes but not really needed.

I have resized all the images now but google.developer is telling me I need ot losslessly compress about 20 or so images. I did noticed in the cropping section of Sandstone a lossless option. However everytime i use cropping in sandstone it seems ot crop out half the image.

Its a lot trickier this resizing than I thought and even some of my resizing is resulting in smaller images than I would like.

[chris ashdown]

We use Photoshop Elements, not to expensive but very handy for this sort of thing, can easily do lots of batch files

[Phil H]

Photo resizing

We use http://www.irfanview.com

its easy, quick, and can batch change (resize rename etc) lots of images in one go. A real timesaver.

Cheers,

Phil

[graphicz]

http://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/

Jpegtran is good, you create a folder with the exe files and create a bat file to run the resizing. The instructions are fairly clear at http://blog.thewebflash.com/2014/05/...ges-using.html