As I told earlier in my previous articles, image size is a
crucial factor in defining search ranking of a blog. If you use heavy images in
your blog posts, your page load speed gets hampered down. And our grandfather
Google doesn’t love that at all. Previously I discussed and reviewed several
ways to compress an image to reduce its size without losing its quality. One of
the best tools amongst them was IrfanView. This is currently the most popular
offline compressing tool available. In this article we’re going to see how an
image size is reduced using IrfanView.
First of all, download the IrfanView software from this link. Along with the software, download all its plugins. The tool is of 1.8 Mb
and the all-in-one plugin file is of about 10 Mb. Install the software followed by
its plugins.
Now let's directly get to the tutorial. You can compress single image as well as multiple at once.First things first.
Now let's directly get to the tutorial. You can compress single image as well as multiple at once.First things first.
How to compress a single image?
1. After installing start IrfanView. Now with it open any
image file you want to compress (File>Open).
2. Now go to File again and navigate to ‘Save for web’.
Remember that you must install the plugins in account to do this.
Snap 1 |
3. As you can see from the screenshot above, you’ll have
several manual options to optimize. The image on the left side shows the
original image along with its size, whereas the right side’s pic shows the
optimized image and the size. You can set the preferred format (jpg/gif/png).
4. In the quality panel below, shift the slider to choose desired quality percentage.
5. Right below the optimized image, there’s a button named – ‘Compress to size’. Through this option you can input the size which you want the optimized pic to be.
6. No need to play around other stuffs, if you’re not an expert. Just select desired bytes or quality and hit the save button above. That’s it.
How to compress multiple photos at once.
Using IrfanView you can optimize multiple images at one time, which is
called batch processing. Batch processing in photoshop is already discussed on
Techabrel. Now let’s see how we can reduce size of many images at once using
IrfanView.
1. First of all, open IrfanView. And go to File > Batch
Conversion/rename or simply press B after starting the software.
2. You’ll now notice a window like the screenshot above.
First off, select your preferred format and then click on the Option button,
which will pop a new window (watch the snap below).
Snap 2 |
Snap 3 |
4. Now refer to snap 2 again. In the right side of the window select the folder in
which the pictures you want to compress are residing.
5. Here you may select multiple images one by one and press
Add or you can simply press Add All to select all the images at once.
6. Select the output folder.
7. Then click on Start Batch. That’s it. Compressed images
will be saved in the output folder you provided.
Okay all done. Now you know how to compress image(s) using
IrfanView. If you’re helped though this article, please take a few moments to
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Cya soon.
Cover: Pixabay
Cover: Pixabay
Irfanview is truly a cool software. Thanks for sharing this article. This helped me.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it. Keep visiting. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing Irfanview, you can use online apps to compress images too, for example, compressor.io, resizeimage.net
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