How to reduce the weight of a photo?

The weight of the photo is called its size in megabytes. Pictures with a lot of weight are often of good quality and allow you to view all the details of the image, but they take up a lot of space. In order to easily upload photos to the Internet or send by e-mail, you need to reduce the weight of the photo. There are several ways for this.

Reducing the weight of a photo in Paint

Paint is one of the simplest graphiceditors for today. It can be found among the standard Windows applications through the "Start" button. In the latest versions of this program to resize the image is very simple.

1. Open the desired photo through Paint.
2. From the "Image" field in the "Home" menu, select the function "Resizing and tilting".
3. Change one of the parameters ("Horizontally" or "Vertically") at the top of the menu, and the second - will change proportionally automatically. It is more convenient to do this in percent.
4. Click "OK" and save the reduced photo.

Reducing the weight of a photo in Gimp

Gimp - another program with which you can edit the image.

1. Open the desired photo through Gimp.
2. In the "Image" tab, select the "Image size" function. We change the parameters in such a way that the length and width are multiples of eight. This will preserve the quality.
3. To keep the proportions of the photo - leave the icon of the chain closed.
4. Save the result.

Reducing the weight of photos in Photoshop

Photoshop is considered a more complex graphic editor, which is used by professionals. But it is also suitable for weight reduction photos.

1. Open the desired photo through Photoshop.
2. Open the Image tab, select the Image Size function.
3. We see a dialog box in which you can changeimage parameters in different magnitudes. First of all, we mark the item "Keep proportions", so that when one indicator changes, the second one changes automatically. Now we change one of the parameters in percent or pixels.
4. To save the image without loss of quality, in the "File" tab select "Save for Web and devices ..." and select the JPEG format. In confirmation, click "Save".

In all the listed graphic editorsThe size of the photo can be changed without changing the settings, but simply by saving the image in a different, more "easy" format. For example, photos in BMP and TIFF format can be saved as a JPEG file. Detailed instructions on changing the format can be found in our article: How to change the format of a photo.

True, it is worth noting that the most voluminous images in RAW format can be saved in JPEG only using Photoshop.

Weight Loss Online

If you do not have access to any graphiceditor on your computer, you can reduce the weight of the photos online. To do this, use one of the online services, for example: softorbits.ru or Jpegmimi.com.

The instruction for another graphic editor is presented in our article: How to compress a photo.