In a consise, step by step order please tell me how i can compress
photos from computer and place onto a cd disk, so that space can be
increased, I am using
windows xp and using canon zoom browser, picasa, and some pics are in
my documents files....
I am no computer geek, so if answer could be very sytematic.

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Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 16 Sep 2004 21:48 PDT

What file format are these photos?

If they are indeed "jpeg", then these photos are already compressed;
the best thing to do would be to just place these photos onto a cd disk.

Go to http://www.irfanview.com and download IrfanView for FREE.
In its help files, follow the directions they provide for compressing files.

I don't have Irfanview installed, so can't look. (I use professional
graphics programs.)

BUT, your problem isn't so much one of not having the knowledge, as
with not having the software you need to do it.

Those Photo programs aren't designed to be *real* graphics programs...

I hope this helps!!

If you are planning to use the CD on other computer to preview
pictures, you could compress the photos using IZArc at
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/ . Depending on the photo properties,
compression ratios might vary. A very good compression type is 7-zip
with great ratios. The drawback of using this method is first you will
have to decompress the files before you could preview them. (For me,
It doesn't really matter on a computer.) If you use any other imaging
software to compress photos, you will suffer a image quality loss.
Using an archiver will prevent image quality loss since those types of
compression is considered "lossless".