[magick-users] Reducing the number of bytes...

[Bruno Schneider]

On 4/11/07, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I'm trying to reduce the number of bytes in an image. I can easily
> convert the bmp to jpg and the size to something reasonable, but the
> number of bytes is still large, around 300kb for a simple image! Am I
> missing something? Possibly a whole chunk of knowledge about how
> images work?

Yeah, probably that's it :)

But if you are saving to JPEG, try the "-quality" option that will
save you lots of bytes at the expense of some visual quality. Also,
strip any unwanted meta-data from file such as thumbnails, EXIF,
comments, etc. The "-strip" option will remove it all.

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Bruno Schneider
http://www.dcc.ufla.br/~bruno/