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I have a friend who has windows XP.
He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
compress the image.
I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
Does anyone know?

TIA

mark wrote:
> I have a friend who has windows XP.
> He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
> image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
> compress the image.
> I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
> Does anyone know?
>
> TIA

Irfanview ?

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:

>I have a friend who has windows XP.
>He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
>image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
>compress the image.
>I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
>Does anyone know?
>
>TIA

It's one of the Microsoft Power Toyy for XP. Don't think it works in
Vista.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

Craig Shore wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who has windows XP.
>> He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
>> image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
>> compress the image.
>> I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
>> Does anyone know?
>>
>> TIA
>
> It's one of the Microsoft Power Toyy for XP. Don't think it works in
> Vista.
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe
>
>
Are you talking about compressing as in reducing file size or
compressing as in archiving (zip/rar/7zip)?

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:

>I have a friend who has windows XP.
>He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
>image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
>compress the image.
>I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
>Does anyone know?
>
>TIA



Mac users use Stuffit..


http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6326

In article <gqa5v3$72m$>, RoyJ <>
wrote:

> Craig Shore wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a friend who has windows XP.
> >> He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
> >> image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
> >> compress the image.
> >> I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
> >> Does anyone know?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >
> > It's one of the Microsoft Power Toyy for XP. Don't think it works in
> > Vista.
> >
> > http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...EN-US/ImageRes
> > izerPowertoySetup.exe
> >
> >
> Are you talking about compressing as in reducing file size or
> compressing as in archiving (zip/rar/7zip)?

File size sorry.
Friend scans stuff for email attachments (ISPs choke on >1MB
attachments).
He is not very computer literate.
I am looking for him, not myself.

mark wrote:
> In article <gqa5v3$72m$>, RoyJ <>
> wrote:
>
>> Craig Shore wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a friend who has windows XP.
>>>> He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
>>>> image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
>>>> compress the image.
>>>> I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
>>>> Does anyone know?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>> It's one of the Microsoft Power Toyy for XP. Don't think it works in
>>> Vista.
>>>
>>> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...EN-US/ImageRes
>>> izerPowertoySetup.exe
>>>
>>>
>> Are you talking about compressing as in reducing file size or
>> compressing as in archiving (zip/rar/7zip)?
>
> File size sorry.
> Friend scans stuff for email attachments (ISPs choke on >1MB
> attachments).
> He is not very computer literate.
> I am looking for him, not myself.

Don't scan at such a high resolution

mark wrote:

> File size sorry.
> Friend scans stuff for email attachments (ISPs choke on >1MB
> attachments).
> He is not very computer literate.
> I am looking for him, not myself.

Much less then that and its not worth emailing since it will just be a
pixely mess at the other end.

Try to get him up to speed on other ways to get files around the place
instead.

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:13:31 +1300, mark wrote:

> In article <gqa5v3$72m$>, RoyJ <>
> wrote:
>
>> Craig Shore wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:03 +1300, mark <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a friend who has windows XP.
>>>> He used to have a piece of software which allowed him to right click an
>>>> image (in windows explorer) with an option in the contextual menu to
>>>> compress the image.
>>>> I am a Mac user and have no idea what it (they) is called.
>>>> Does anyone know?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>
>>> It's one of the Microsoft Power Toyy for XP. Don't think it works in
>>> Vista.
>>>
>>> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...EN-US/ImageRes
>>> izerPowertoySetup.exe
>>>
>>>
>> Are you talking about compressing as in reducing file size or
>> compressing as in archiving (zip/rar/7zip)?
>
> File size sorry.
> Friend scans stuff for email attachments (ISPs choke on >1MB
> attachments).
> He is not very computer literate.
> I am looking for him, not myself.

I'll endorse RoyJ's recommendation for the XP Powertoys ImageResizer.

It's easy to use with a right click, and automatically produces the resized
file in the same folder as the original, with a modified file name
indicating its size.

For most purposes choosing "medium" (ie 800x600) for the resultant file
size will be fine for the recipient to view on a computer screen or TV
screen, if you don't know what screen resolution the recipient is using.

Alternatively the "Large" size of 1024x768 will be better for anyone using
a higher screen resolution but, when viewing, may require scrolling for
those using a lower screen resolution, which is a bit of a pain.

Just tried this on one of my digital camera photos, and a 1.3MB file was
reduced to 195 KB at 1024x768, and 125 KB at 800x600.

Of course, these lower resolutions won't be satisfactory for producing good
quality prints - they are intended for viewing on a computer monitor.

Cheers,

John S

Richard wrote:
> mark wrote:
>
>> File size sorry.
>> Friend scans stuff for email attachments (ISPs choke on >1MB
>> attachments).
>> He is not very computer literate.
>> I am looking for him, not myself.
>
> Much less then that and its not worth emailing since it will just be a
> pixely mess at the other end.
>

Really?
I seem to get pretty reasonable results (for viewing on a computer
monitor) on image files resized to around 2000x1350 pixels, compressed
to around 200kb - give or take a bit depending on content.
With files out of my digital camera, I doubt anyone - assuming that
they're not aware of what to look for - would even see the difference
between an uncompressed 16 bit Tiff at 50mb, and a "basic" jpeg at about
the same compression as above.

> Try to get him up to speed on other ways to get files around the place
> instead.