Shrinking the size of images in gimp

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:13:43 -0400 (EDT)
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Devin Whalen wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> >
> > I know I should RTFM for this but I don't really have time.  I am at
> > work and I want to email some pictures, however the file sizes are too
> > big.  I know that you can shrink the size of a file in Photoshop...but
> > is there a way in gimp?  I have gimp 2.0.  I really don't want to have
> > to shut down everything and boot up windows just to do this :).  Thanks
> > for any help.
> 
>       It's much simpler to use ImageMagick:
> 
> convert -size 100x100 -resize 100x100  file.jpg smallfile.jpg

Chris,

   How about...

convert -quality 50 file.jpg smallerfile.jpg

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