Reducing the size of a photo

[andy baxter]

Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> This is not a Ubuntu specific question. I am trying to upload some
> photos to Craigslist and it won't allow me to because the size is too
> large (1.3 Meg per photo). How do I reduce the size of these photos (I
> have F-Spot and Gimp) to say 200 kb?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rajiv
>   
If you have a lot of photos, and know a bit about shell scripting, you 
can do this automatically using ImageMagick, which is a command line 
program for editing images. But I wouldn't recommend this route unless 
you have some basic knowledge of programming.