recommend me a good image resizing/compression programme

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I'm having headaches. I need to resize all my images for the web, the instructions are:

Preview image must be a JPEG and should be no more than 700 pixels wide or high and 100KB in file size.
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Using GIMP, (i don't use PS) i can "scale image" to 700 pixels but this gives a file size of 240KB! I'm aware of the "image quality" slider, but it's pure guesswork what size the image will turn out and i want them to be the best possible quality as it's for my portfolio.

Any free programs out there? Tried Xat Image Optimizer (and like it) but it puts a filthy little watermark in the top right of the image and they charge £80 to get rid of it :( I do not wish to clone it out of all my images!

Are there any programs where i can just input 700px, 100mb and batch process the whole lot?
 
as far as i am aware you cannot specify a file size in faststone. only image size (pixel width)
 
Click the box next to where it says output format and change the jpeg quality. Thats the way even CS5 does it. You'd have to play around with the setting to get the best quality for filesize :D
 
Faststone resises and has umpteen controls for batch renaming, quality, sizes, all the stuff.
It only took me 2 goes to work out how to do it right : that's amazing.
 
Also try eazy thumbnail, it's simple and quick for batch resizing. (and free)
 
i've just spent the last hour or so playing with it, watched a nice little video tutorial on youtube.

can anyone tell me why web standard is 72dpi? I notice the print size goes down as you increase the ppi (say, to 300) when using 700 pixels on the long edge. does this setting have any implications on the image quality? as mentioned above the photos for my portfolio site have to be 700 pixels on the long edge..
 
bomberman said:
can anyone tell me why web standard is 72dpi? I notice the print size goes down as you increase the ppi (say, to 300) when using 700 pixels on the long edge. does this setting have any implications on the image quality? as mentioned above the photos for my portfolio site have to be 700 pixels on the long edge..
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Firstly, forget dpi, as that is 'dots per inch' and relates purely to print devices.

The reason for 72 ppi is that monitors are generally set to display a resolution of 72 ppi, although that is also a misnomer because the Mac standard is 72 and the Win version is 96.

For all intents and purposes, if you are not intending to print, then you can ignore any dpi/ppi settings and stick to concentrating on pixel width and breadth, because the pixel density for an image displayed on a computer is not going to change apart from a very few circumstances.
 
I use vso image resizer, seems quick and easy for a beginer so not sure if it's to basic for the more experianced.
 
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