LonelyPixel Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Hello, I regularly get images from a graphic designer that are supposed to be published on a website. But these images contain exotic matter that bloats the files. I have no idea what that designer does but the instructions "JPG, RGB, minimal file size for the web" seem very hard to execute for a designer. Or that person at least. Anyway, the files are huge and converting them with Paint.NET they still remain huge. Dialing down the JPG quality to the minimum, the file won't go under 400 kB. Something is wrong here. Can Paint.NET handle this? Should it? Or is "professional" software required for this job? My current workaround is using Affinity Photo, export the image as TIFF and then use Paint.NET to convert further to webp. That leads to nice small files. The problematic image file is attached to this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Your file probably has a bunch of "meta data" attached. (Sorry, too lazy to check... ) Open your image Ctrl-A to select all Ctrl-C to copy Ctrl+Alt+V to paste it into a new image Save that one Following these instructions reduced the file from 920 to 348K. 1 1 Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 46 minutes ago, BoltBait said: Your file probably has a bunch of "meta data" attached. (Sorry, too lazy to check... ) Open your image Ctrl-A to select all Ctrl-C to copy Ctrl+Alt+V to paste it into a new image Save that one Following these instructions reduced the file from 920 to 348K. Confirmed -- WICExplorer shows that this image has a ton of metadata. You can also find utilities that will strip metadata and "squash" the image with the best compression they can figure out. I usually use PNGGauntlet but it only operates on PNGs (which is what is used for all the icons in Paint.NET). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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