Travel Technology - Shrink the size of a JPG

I have a 2mb jpg that I need to shrink to something more website friendly
(i.e. 50-200k). I have XP but can't find anything that allows me to do this but I'm not much of a graphics guy....
Ideas?

http://www.irfanview.com/

Fiddle with the Image\Resize and File\Save menus until your file reaches an acceptable size. You won't see many artifacts until you go below ~70-75% on the 'quality' slider on the save menu.

Alternatively, any graphics program has such options, but this one is free and good.

IMHO the easiest (and free) solution is this:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

It's an XP powertoy, just rightclick on the image and select resize. Awesome tool :)

ScottC , thanks so much for that tool! Up until now i had been using trial and error in Photoshop to shrink them!

ScottC , thanks so much for that tool! Up until now i had been using trial and error in Photoshop to shrink them!

ScottC, thanks a lot!
That's a nice little tool. I was using MS PhotoDraw to get the pics smaller.

Try this, it is a free .JPG size reduction tool. It is awesome:

http://www.jpegwizard.com/

Cool site, thanks.

ScottC , thanks so much for that tool! Up until now i had been using trial and error in Photoshop to shrink them!Newer versions of Photoshop have a great "save for web" feature that allows you to tweak the image properties and see it on the fly while saving it...

IMHO the easiest (and free) solution is this:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

It's an XP powertoy, just rightclick on the image and select resize. Awesome tool :)


this is relaly the best tool, makes it easy and doesn't load up the system. Always availabe in the file menu when you need it.

Brilliant Scott - thanks

In most cases, ~70% compression is good enough for web sharing.