How to Easily Shrink the Size of a Digital Photo Using IrfanView

Last Updated: July 1, 2021 Tested

Shrinking a digital photo involves reducing its dimensions and/or resolution. This can be accomplished quite easily by using IrfanView, the leading freeware image editor.

On Unix/Linux platforms, use the free software image manipulation utilities from ImageMagick.

Steps

1
Download and install IrfanView.
2
Run IrfanView. Click File > Open.

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3
Browse to the photo you wish to shrink.
4
Left-click the name of the photo to select it.
5
Click the Open button. The photo will appear in the IrfanView window.
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To reduce the dimensions of the photo, click Image > Resize/Resample.
7
Select the options you prefer and click OK.
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To reduce the quality of a .JPG image without changing its dimensions, click File > Save As and select JPG - JPEG Files from the drop-down list. Click the Options button and use the slide bar to select a lower image quality. This will reduce the disk space used by the photo.
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After altering the image, click File > Save As and select a new file name. Click the Save button to create the new image.

Warnings

IrfanView is free for "non-commercial use only."

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IrfanView is not available for Macs.

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