Today in market cameras are out that can shoot at higher mega pixels and are affordable by common man. Soon we are done with the shooting the next thing we want is to upload the pictures on web through different photo sharing websites like Flickr, Picasa, Orkut, Face book and the list is never ending but the problem comes when the high range cameras process each photos at around 1.5 to several mb’s depending upon the lenses configuration. Due to this large photo size the two man problem that arise are:-

• Many of us are on limited data plan and we have to compromise with the amount of upload to cut short bandwidth usage.
• Large number of people still don’t have access to broadband and it takes hours to upload photos of such a size.

Now you can decrease the size of the entire set of photograph you need to upload on net at one without compromising with the quality with use of a free and simple to use tool named IrfanView.

The raw pictures of camera have insignificant small amount of details that are not necessary for every day photo viewing unless you are planning to make a collage of the pictures. All you need is do is to download and install the software for free HERE. The program is free from any type of spyware or adware. After successful Installation run the program and proceed to the steps given below to optimize your pictures.

• In the main window press ‘B’ from your keyboard (shortcut for batch convert).
• In the pop up window of batch convert add all the files you want to optimize.
• Choose the output folder and file type, its best to keep it jpeg format.
• Now click the option button next to it and choose the output quality of the files you need to optimize. It’s recommended to keep it at 75 to 80 for best result.
• All done now you just need to start the process and wait for it to finish.

When you analyze the output files you will notice that the size of the photographs have reduced a lot but you will hardly find any difference with that of original raw file.

There are many other tricks you can do on your photographs using IrfanView like:-

• You can rotate a complete set of photographs 90 degrees using batch convert advance options.
• You can resize or crop your pictures easily for your blog or upload services.
• Add effects like sepia or gray scale to photographs.
• Increase or decrease the color depth.
• There are many more interesting feature of the program you can try out and all these in around 1.5 mb size, Isn’t it great.

Download Now

License :- Free

Size :-  <1.5mb

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