Reducing the size of a photo

[Gilles Gravier]

Ubuntu comes with a very nice tool to edit images... comparable to
Photoshop... GIMP. You should use that.

You open your image in GIMP. Then, from the menus of the window that
displays your image, you select :

Image -> Scale Image ... Be sure to keep the little locks between X and Y
(Height and Width) or you might get strange results. :)

If you have ImageMagick installed, you have a "convert" tool... which lets
you do that as well, manually...

convert  -geometry XxY -quality 75 $baseimage JPEG:$outputimage

This will rescale to XxY, and save with quality 75 (pick whatever suits your
needs) the image with name $baseimage, into a JPEG file with name
$outputimage

Have fun,
Gilles.

On 1/20/08, andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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