What method of compressing files?
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cidion
Joined: 2003-07-15
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Posted: Wed, 2003-07-16 05:42
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Ok, so I have iPhoto, which is very nice for some things, but not so nice for making files small. Photoshop does great with the save for web command, but that strips the EXIF data. If I use the Photoshop "save as" command, and save it as a jpg with 1 for the quality it leaves the EXIF but they are not so large. "Save as" = a 800px wide photo, that is 250k or so, with EXIF data. I really would like to save all the EXIF data and still have file sizes in the sub 100 range. What is the best method of saving small files that are not stripped? what do you guys do? thanks |
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If you are comfortable with Terminal, then you should try jhead (see download page). It copies EXIF information from one file to another, so you can use it after getting your image to the right size.
For instance, suppose your originals are in directory "../orig" and your new images are in you current directory - with the same file names. Then this command will copy the EXIF from the originals to your reduced images.
jhead -te '../orig/&i' *.jpg
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IrfanView is a great free tool to do just this, but it's only available for Windows, and I guess you're still using ;) a Mac.
Before I used IrfanView I used ImageMagick to do just this. You'll have to use the command prompt, but it's fairly easy and it saves you the hassle of using Photoshop. Just copy all your images to a new folder and execute this command (for Windows users, I have no clue about Macs):
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick\mogrify.exe" -size 800x800 -resize 800x800 -quality 70 *.jpgChange paths, size, quality according to your own preferences.