I-photo. Anyway to compress images?

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My photos range from 30-55 Meg. Somebody said that all I need is about 5 meg to have a decent image. He says their too huge! I didn't think much about it, since I have an 80 Gig HD, but now I'm down to 40 gig. These all came from 8X10s and I manipulated them in Photoshop. Is there a way to compress them in PS, or can I do it in I-Photo?:shrug:

Oh yeah, I got a Powerbook 17", G4 with Panther.

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1. Hi quality JPEG should help

These sound like TIFF files... saving as highest resolution JPG should save you 40 to 80 percent of the file size (depending on content) with almost no perceptible loss of quality.

In fact, you could experiment with different levels of JPG compression... the file size gets a lot smaller when you go from 100% to 80%, but for snapshots and stuff, that should probably be more than good enough.

Photoshop can do this, and I think iPhoto will to. Photoshop now has "batch" processing capability, so you could tell it to convert a whole folder full of images then go have a sandwich, come back and it's all done.