What is the best software to compress the file size of a JPEG?

[ajayritik]

I have couple of photos that I took from my digital camera. The size of these pics are large so I want to reduce the file size without losing much on quality. What would be the best software to do it?

[CadCrazy]

Check this thread
passport size photo maker ?

[Cool G5]

Irfanview...

[slugger]

Irfanview...

+1

set d image qlty to 80% while saving it

[NagpurDaMunda]

Advanced JPEG Compressor

[dOm1naTOr]

ACDSee 5.0 or above. Much better quality at relatively lower file size.

[almighty]

Easy thumbnail
just convert the resolution as per ur need and goooooooooooooo
in one click all ur selected photos ll b changed in low or high resolution

[dOm1naTOr]

@almighty
its not bout changin the res, but the quality of da jpg.

[almighty]

^^^
if u change the resolution quality itself changed
anyway its a very handy s.w
i am saying that irfan is not a good choice for compression
but IMO easythumbnail is veryhandy
i used both thats y am telling u

[ThinkFree]

Use stripfile to remove unneccesary info from a image taken in a camera like camera model, time at which picture taken,frame rate. Thus you can reduce the size of image upto 20 %. You can further decrease their size by reducing the resolution of pictures which are above 5mega pixels using software like microsoft picture manager or image resizer powertoy without seeing much any change in quality.