From last few months, my laptop is giving warning of little space left in my hard disk.
A detail investigation revealed that the culprit is a large number of photos. First round of rescue happened by giving some of the photos the death sentence. (dafa charso do ke tahet saja-e-maut)
Even after that the health of hard disk didn’t improve much. A more detailed investigation gave more clues.
Most of the images were holding size of 2 to 3 megabytes. A cost-cutting strategy was being forced upon the photos. This outsourcing task was given to tools like Picasa, Microsoft office picture manager, since I am not the expert in more professional tools.
None gave me the desired result.
Then I tried the college-time old technique to reduce the size. I opened the image in MS Paint and just saved it! Bingo. The size reduced by almost 70%. I tried with different photos. Each time the result was anywhere from 60% to 85%.
Its working, but is not efficient. I have to open each file and save it again, consuming around 8-10 seconds per photo. Considering the large number of images I am holding, it’s not looking practical.
I want tool to do the mass-killing of the used space. Google searched gave me some tool. But either it was demo version showing a big watermark in my photos or simple “image resizer”.
Anyone knows any solution for this ?
Until the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ is found, the single shot diet plan will continue.
Hitansu: What about burning a DVD or two..
ReplyDeleteInstead buy a 500 GB USB drive. Space is going to be an all time problem.
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ReplyDelete"Dafa charso do" nahi "Dafa teenso do"! :)
Yeah, u can do resize using Google Picasa, Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Windows Live Photo Gallery too.
Using Microsoft Picture Manager:
1. Go to File Menu
2. Import Folder - Select your photos folder
3. Select all pics
4. Click on Edit Picture on the toolbar, or on the right pan
5. Select resize
6. Go to percentage in resizing, reduce and make it to show 1024 in width.
7. Say OK, and you are done.
8. Remember to save (your existing picture are overwritten)
Let me know in case of any queries.
best way is to reduce the camera pixel setting.. for normal photography we do not need 10-12 MPs. Reduce the pixel to around 8M, that will help snapping more as well as better quality rather than MSPaint :).
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