
BTW, I have over 35 years of professional photography experience and look at images very critically. reduce the size of the canvas (max 3000px and 300dpi (for prints)) check this discussion try saving to. Also, resizing helps to fit the image in a certain space like a blog post, social media and etc. The main reason to resize is to reduce the file size and dimensions. This should be the real test for the MS Paint file size reduction. Image Resizing is nothing but the altering of the image size without cutting or trimming anything out. My plan is to make extreme crops from both files and have them printed to see what I get. I can understand compressing a jpg to reduce file size, but not a tif file. No real answers to be found here but at least the topic is addressed. The photograph is now 500 pixels wide and 375 pixels high, but will be made. Notice that the current file dimensions are shown. Once the file has opened, click on the Image menu and choose the Resize option. For this article, this picture will be used.
How to reduce a file size in paint install#
I have been looking online for an explanation for HOW Paint does this and found this relatively old thread. If you don't already have, download and install. There was no banding as usually seen in compressed jpgs. I opened both files in PS CS6 side by side, extremely zoomed in on areas of the image and could not tell the difference by looking at them on the monitor. Select Acrobat 8.0 And Later for file compatibility, and click OK. The resulting tif file was only 14.8 mb! The image size was identical to the 137 mb file. It typically produces a huge reduction in file size.

On the other hand, compression reduces the volume of data in the file by applying different algorithms. However, the second image, and the third image, did not experience any significant (or any at all) reduction in image quality (not that I could tell any way zooming in by 400-800). It produces a small to medium file size reduction. All three images edited then saved using Paint experienced a significant reduction in file size, especially in comparison to editing and saving the images using instead.

How to reduce a file size in paint code#
I opened a 137mb tif file that was exported from LR 5 with the Prophoto RGB color profile into MS Paint and immediately saved it as a tif without changing anything to the file. Minification removes unnecessary parts from code files like comments, whitespace, and line-breaks.

Someone recently suggested that I use MS Paint in my Win 7 machine to reduce file size without reducing image size.
