Creating WinZip files - Help Please

[iluvmercs]

Whenever I try to create WinZip files which contain photos, they do not get compressed very much at all.

I just zipped a folder containing 40.5MB of JPEG photos. The file was only compressed to 40.4MB!

How can I make this smaller (to around 7MB) without splitting the folder into several emails?

Many thanks,

Darren

[roadsweeper]

The compression you can achieve with any utility, including WinZip, depends on the type of file being compressed. For example, if you tried to zip a zip file then you wouldn't expect to see any compression at all. In this case, you are compressing JPEG images - JPEG itself is a compressed format, which is why you're not seeing a reduction in size.

You can either reduce the size (i.e. pixel height and width) of the photos and/or reduce the JPEG compression quality to reduce their size. A free utility like the GIMP will do this for you.

Hope this helps.

[ThePassenger]

Just to add, that when increasing the compression of a JPG you begin to reduce the quality of it. So it's something to tinker with (often on a picture by picture basis) to get acceptable results.

[iluvmercs]

D'oh! I didn't realise JPEGs were compressed files.

Thanks so far, but another quick question....

AOL only seem to allow 7 or 8Mb attachments onto their emails. So would I just need to send several emails, or is their any cheat that I can use to send them in one?

Darren