Lalita's father wants to send a file of 12 MB as an attachment with his e mali. The uploading process consumers too much time. What can Lalita do to reduce the file size and seepd up the process?Name the program required for this. Name the software category.
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Explanation:
It’s definitely time to invest in learning a photo editing package, such as gimp. Gimp is free and available on multiple systems.
What you want to do is:
a) crop the image to remove parts of the scene which are not interesting.
b) reduce the pixel dimensions, but still be usable for viewing on a monitor and printing up to a 4x6 print but *not* larger, so reduce pixel dimensions to 1000 pixels in the largest dimension.
c) play with the compression factor while generating a .jpg output file, such that the image still looks excellent quality to your eye, but is reduced in filesize.
See this tutorial for jpg compression:
See this tutorial for reducing the pixel dimensions:
See this tutorial for cropping:
After cropping, pixel dimension adjustment, and compression adjustment, a 12 Mbyte file may likely be down to about 300Kbytes!
Learning gimp is well worth the effort, but does require a few hours of playing around.