Still do not know how to reduce the weight of the photo?

With the problem of how to reduce the weight of a photo, every user of the network faces. Light photos quickly loaded on sites, are easier to send by mail, and not everywhere you can attach an image in high quality - prevent restrictions.

First, to reduce weight, you can reduce the size of the photo, cut off the unnecessary part. This, of course, is not a way out of any situations, but it's not worth forgetting about it. Especially when you need to keep within a very limited scope by weight and quality. I have to sacrifice something else.

Reduce the weight of the photo can be almost any editor, including in Paint. But if you want to achieve good quality (not to lose what is available), it is better to use more advanced software.

Some images have to be processed only by specialized programs or editors. This applies to high-resolution photos and images in which a gradient background and contrast objects converge on the boundary. If you do not use good compression algorithms, with weight reduction in such images, artifacts appear. (The most famous JPEG artifact is blur.)

The most popular programs used to reduce the picture without loss of quality include Photoshop, ACDSee and free Gimp and Inkscape (the last one mentioned is the best alternative to Photoshop). In the corresponding dialog you will be asked to choose which compression should be applied - the maximum or with the preservation of quality. With the help of rulers, you can choose the best option.

There are special programs that do not know how to do anything other than to reduce the weight of the photo. But with the help of a preview of the image you can choose the most optimal process settings. An example of such a program is Cesium.

Recently, a lot of services have appeared on the Internet that help you create or edit an image using the WYSWUG editor. So, the service JPEGmini.com helps to get "thin" images, it would seem, in an unchanged form. He solves the problem of how to reduce the weight of the photo, say, for those who did not take a laptop on a trip, but decided to share fresh photos even before returning home.

Unfortunately, most of these services, often, do not justify all the hopes placed on them. For example, not all downloaded photos will be returned to the user in a reduced form. Therefore, do not interfere with knowing how to reduce the weight of photos using the standard Windows tools.

On any computer must be installed a package of office programs from Microsoft, and in it, except for Word and Excel, there is a Picture Manager. In the "All Programs" list it is hidden under the item "Microsoft Office Tools", and in some versions it is translated as "Picture Manager". Run the program, add a shortcut to the desired photo through the "File" menu, and in the "Picture" menu, find the item "Compress drawings". You can choose from 4 compression modes: for sending by mail, publishing on the web, placing in documents and for quitting the program without compressing the picture.

PictureManager allows you to reduce the weight of the image in dozens of times, leaving its quality acceptable. The program, of course, does not compare with professional packages for image processing, but for the daily needs of its capabilities it is enough.