bitmaps to jpg

Joe Minor · Post by **Joe Minor** » 23 Feb 2001 10:55 pm

This may be a dumb question, but how do you convert pictures from bitmaps to jpg forum?

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 24 Feb 2001 12:28 am

Adobe photoshop will do it, and a lot of people have free versions of that from Magazine cover CDs.
You just load up the BMP then save it as JPG

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 24 Feb 2001 4:07 am

Most of the graphic programs will convert or save a file in a different format. When you save the file, select "save as" and most will give you an option as to what type of file to save it as. If you want .jpg then select that type.

Jonathan Cullifer · Post by **Jonathan Cullifer** » 24 Feb 2001 8:58 am

Windows Paint will do the job fine. Open up your Bitmap, click on Save As, and in the dropdown menu select JPEG. Type in the filename and presto!

For more control over the quality you really need another program, such as PhotoShop or Microsoft PhotoDraw.

Jonathan

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 24 Feb 2001 12:38 pm

I use Paint Shop Pro for everything concerning pictures. It does 90% of what Adobe PhotoShop does, for about 1/4 of the price.

Irfanview is a good freeware program for viewing and converting images. The Irfanview home page is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/

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Jude James Shiels · Post by **Jude James Shiels** » 26 Feb 2001 4:17 am

whoops, somebody posted my solution already.[This message was edited by Jude James Shiels on 26 February 2001 at 04:18 AM.]

Bob Shilling · Post by **Bob Shilling** » 26 Feb 2001 10:58 am

I'll second b0b's recommendation on Irfanview. It's free and handles virtually any graphic format, including all those cute little animated critters you find on people's web sites.

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 27 Feb 2001 3:51 pm

Do a web search for a program called...

ACDSee32

It has some really nice features (like automatically displaying thumbnails..which can be enlarged to either business-card size, or full-screen) Seeing 25 thunbnails on the screen at once sure makes finding the right jpeg easy!

(You can download a free-trial version that will work for a couple of months.)