According to a recent
research around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 photos uploaded on
Flickr In a single minute. You can find thousands of stock photos, vector art
designs and other types of background images from internet within seconds.
Bloggers also use images with their articles to convey a complex idea more
easily. Images are also important for bloggers regarding SEO point of
view. Facebook is
one of the best example where millions of Photos are uploaded and viewed on
daily basis. I have a number of Facebook addicted Friends who frequently upload
their photos on Facebook.
In order to quickly
upload photos anywhere on Internet, you will have to optimize them. So,
without losing the quality of an Image, you can reduce the Image size up to 80%
or even 90%. Well-optimized andcompressed images can
be uploaded easily while consuming less space of the disk.
Image optimization is
much important for bloggers. With the help of some free image compression
tools, you can easily reduce image size and save disk space. Light images will
also contribute to fast loading of pages on your website. So, it’s important to
compress images before uploading or using them anywhere like in Microsoft Word,
PowerPoint, and Blogs etc.
There are some free
online websites that allow you to compress photos and reduce image sizes. Some softwares
are also available that can do the task efficiently. In this article, I am
going to share free image compression Tools that will help you out to compress
photo without much affecting the image quality.
Best Methods to
Compress Images Effectively
It is a free online
tool that let you minify photos by reducing their sizes. You can compress large
images by uploading them from your computer and select the maximum height and
width parameters for your image. Select the required quality of image out
of 6 different qualities and accordingly the image will be compressed. This
tool can easily compress a photo in Megabytes to only a few hundred KBs while
not much affecting the quality of image. The disadvantage of using this tool is
that every time you want to compress an image, you will be first required to
upload that to the server. So, for heavy photos, it can take much time to
upload it. In order to save time, you can download their free image compression
software from the website.
File Minimizer is a
free productive tool that allows you to compress large image files within
seconds. If you want to compress multiple images in bulk then this software is
best option for you. First of all download and install this tool. Then import
the images you want to compress or shrink. This tool provides you 3 different
levels of image compression by default.
o Low Compression – By selecting
this option, you images will be compressed as much as possible without
affecting the quality of photo. For taking print outs of image files, this
compression level is the best.
o Standard Compression – A medium level
compression that is best recommended for using images anywhere like in MS Word
documents, PowerPoint, for Blogger etc.
o High Compression – This is the
maximum level of image compression with a little effect on the quality of
image. When high quality image is not your priority then this option is
recommended.
Along with these
compression levels, you may also define custom image compression level by
selecting the preferable screen size and the required percentage of image
quality.
Paint.net is basically
you can say an advanced version of default MS Paint program in Windows. You can
use it for drawing as well as you can do simple editing of your
photos with the help of this software. With a number of extra tools and
features, this handy paint tool can also be used to compress large images. When
you click on the save button after opening the required image in paint.net, it
will give you option to select the required quality of image. The image will be
compressed according to the quality selected by you. For better results it is
recommended not to decrease the quality too much and set it to default quality.
Compress Images in
WordPress
For WordPress bloggers here is a nice plugin
that will help them to compress images uploaded on their WordPress blog. The
plugin is named as Smush.it and it is recommended by Yahoo and developed by
WPMU developers. This plugin will automatically strip out unused colors and
meta data from JPEGs and will compress your images without affecting their
quality. Every image you add to any post or page will be automatically
optimized and it will also improve your blog loading time. You can also
compress all previously uploaded images from the media directory with the help
of this plugin.
Bonus Tips
1. Whenever transparency
of .PNG images is not required then it is preferable to convert the format of
image to jpeg.
2. If the image is not
animated then recommended option is to convert it into jpeg.
3. .BMP images also take
more space and you can easily compress them just by converting them to .JPEG
format.
There are many online
image format converter tools and you can find a good one by clicking here. It will allow you to convert any image
to JPG format as well as you can change the image size, quality, colors etc.
So, that’s all about
Image Compression tools and I hope that you will enjoy these free services.
Cheers!
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