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assmonkeyassmonkey Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Way back on my old desktop, it had Windows Vista...on that OS, I would edit it with the program Vista had

I would use the Red Eye tool on this small part of the render and the file size was reduced by a lot

No image loss, nothing changed

But now I do not have that handy tool with Window 7/8

Are there any other programs that can do just what the Vista did?

Comments

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited August 2013

    I don't even know what tool you're talking about. Did it have a name?

    /edit
    nvm
    Was this it? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/remove-red-eye-from-a-picture

    If so, you should be able to do that in any image editor.

    Post edited by Lissa_xyz on
  • assmonkeyassmonkey Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I think that was it...but they removed it form Windows 7

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    They did, so you'd need an external app to do it. If you don't want to use a full image editing program like Photoshop or Gimp, then you can use something like Irfanview or Windows Live Photo Gallery.

  • assmonkeyassmonkey Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Alright, guess I'll just look for a tool that reduces the size when I edit it

    thanks for the reply and program suggestions

  • Salem2007Salem2007 Posts: 513
    edited August 2013

    I have windows 7....there is a "Photo Gallery" that has a button for Red Eye correction:

    Open Photo Gallery by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, and then clicking Photo Gallery. Then open the image and look for the Red Eye icon.... the image file size didn't reduce too much for me, though.

    image003.jpg
    623 x 341 - 27K
    Post edited by Salem2007 on
  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    That's not present by default. At some point the Windows Live Photo Gallery I mentioned earlier was installed on your machine.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940
    edited August 2013

    Vata Raven said:
    Alright, guess I'll just look for a tool that reduces the size when I edit it

    Practically all graphics programs and picture viewers can reduce the size (in bytes) of a file in different ways. BMP, PCX. GIF and other true bitmap formats can usually be reduced greatly in size by converting them to a compressed (lossy) format, e.g. JPG, without any noticable reduction in picture quality if you use a reasonably low compression rate (75+). JPG files can be reduced in size by re-saving them as JPG using a higher compression rate, though the picture quality is reduced proportionally with the compression rate (not always noticable though if you don't exaggerate the compression).

    IrfanView is free and a great tool for this and many other things:

    http://www.irfanview.net/

    Post edited by Taoz on
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940
    edited August 2013

    BTW, if you also want to remove red eyes Serif has a nice, free graphics program that can do this:

    http://www.serif.com/free-photo-editing-software/

    Edit: actually IrfanView can do that too, I can see, but the Serif program has also a lot other editing tools that IrfanView doesn't have.

    Post edited by Taoz on
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