Can anyone tell me the beast way to reduce the size of my pic without losing quality, my new camera takes pic at around 8 mb need to get below 5mb

Resize it in Photoshop if you have it.

Go Image>Image Size and then click the drop down box so that it is at "percentage". Change that to your desired size (probably around 75% in your case).

That's how I do it anyway.

thank you that looks better

If you are using Photoshop, use Save for web and devices, and change the pixels until it's the size you want, Megabytes. One size doesn't fit all, depends on how much detail there is in the image.

yes that is how i am doing it but it looks like it lost some of the quality

less file size = less quality... thats just how it works I`m afraid. Using friiskiwi`s method will lose quality whilst keeping it at the same size. Solkee`s method reduces the size but keeps the quality (pretty much). It all depends on what it is you need.. the actual size reducing or the file size reducing. Let us know more about what you`re trying to do and we might be able to offer more alternatives (I`ve got many).

edit/afterthought: you could give it to one of us PS geeks with a preferred file size and we`ll give it as much detail as it can handle

Just bought a new camera and the picture size is about 8-10 mb
For this site it has to be below 5 just want to keep the quality

kathyw I'm not sure if you have Photoshop or not but this might be of some help with your question. http://www.hp.com/united-states/consume ... izing.html

geexman wrote:less file size = less quality... thats just how it works I`m afraid. Using friiskiwi`s method will lose quality whilst keeping it at the same size.

I wasn't suggesting lowering the quality, but changing the size. It's just that you can see the result better in Save for web and devices and change the colourspace to Srgb at the same time which is better for the web.

thank you will try that today