ok im using winrar and i wanted to send my friend some pics of a party but i couldnt get the program to compress the pics so i could send it through aol (they only allow 16mb to go through) i was wondering how can i get all of the pics to go through ive unzipped files that were like 857k and the real file was in the gigs please help
Pictures of any sort can hardly be compressed -- ! Best you get yourself an emailing account with Google and put them up there. They have 1G of space for you. Or try Yahoo they have 100MB for you.
Pictures (jpg,bmp,gif,img,wbm, and the likes ) do not compress enough to see a difference. Get yourself an email account and upload them there ! Your friend can get them from there !
A JPG is a compressed file, ie. a compressed BMP. Therefore a BMP will compress well but a JPG will not, it's already squished as far as practically possible... A 1MB BMP will compress no problem to ~150KB JPG. That is big for a JPG; PaintShopPro or equivalent can make a smaller JPG that is only 50-60KB. So you should easily be able to fit 100+ JPGs into much less than the AOL limit (100 x 160KB = 16MB). How many pictures have you got!? Or just split & send in 2 chunks... L8R
It dont matter if they are BMP or jpeg or what-have you --- Winrar will not compress pictures sufficiently to do what you want ! BMP is a format developed by Microsoft and IBM to store pixels on a bitmap with the colours indexed -- hence it is a true format used by professionnals. They can be compressed and remain BMP ; the compression is done by reducing the amount of coloured pixels in the bitmap. (24 bit to 16.7 millions) http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/bmp/ The Jpeg is an offspring of the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) standard developed in the 80'; it is used when quality is not a requisite. It uses a string of data to transpose colours , and requires a lot less space.
