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I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily reduce your JPEG image sizes down using a free program called GIMP
It's really quick to do so check it out
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So you don't miss out on upcoming videos today. We're gonna be showing you how to reduce the file size of your JPEG images
It's super easy to do it's quick and it's free. We're gonna be using a program called GIMP today
It's a image manipulation program. And again, it's totally free
We'll show you where you can get that in just a moment if you're like me
I create YouTube videos and I
Upload custom thumbnails and those can't be over 2 megabytes in size
So I need to reduce the size of my thumbnails or maybe you're using these images for different purposes
You just need smaller file sizes. That's what we're gonna be teaching you today
So let's head on over to my desktop and show you how this is done
So if you don't already have GIMP on your computer, it is on my highly recommended list that every computer should have on it
It's totally free and it's amazing software that you can use to manipulate your pictures
It's similar to photoshop. But again, it's totally free. So if you go to gimp.org you can download it here for free
There's an orange download button at the top or right at the very top here
You can click download and you can click on the Downloads here. It's available for Linux Mac and Windows
So go ahead and install that I've already got it installed on my computer
It's this little character dude or the paintbrush in his mouth. I am gonna go ahead and open up the software and
Again with this software you can add text you can change colors
You can rotate things just as you would in in Photoshop
But again, it's slightly different but a great program to have so now I've got this loaded up
We're not going to be adjusting the image in any way
I've already got it where I want it to be but we do need to load the image in here
So there's a couple ways to do that. The first would be to click file up here in the top left hand corner
To come down to the third option here it says open or you could click ctrl o to open when I click on that
It's going to bring up a menu where I can search for the file on the file. I'm using it's actually on my desktop
so I'm gonna just click on desktop and it is the one here called GoPro thumbnail and you can see right here says it's
2.8
Megabytes in size we want to reduce that under two megabytes in order for me to upload it to YouTube
So that's the first way I could click on that and hit open to open it
To be honest, the fastest way that I do this almost every time is I actually just drag and drop the image
so I've got it right here on my desktop and I'm gonna drag it into the middle of
GIMP and it pulls the image right into GIMP so I got that image open here
And again, this was a thumbnail that I made for a previous video that we're working with today
Alright, so I've got my image in here and now we need to reduce it from that 2.8 megabytes down to 102 megabytes
Or maybe you want to go smaller than that. You can do that as well. So
Up in the top left hand corner. There is the file button again, we're gonna just click on that and
We're gonna scroll down here right in the middle
It says export as so you could also use the shortcut
shift ctrl E
Or click export hours. Now shift ctrl e is the windows shortcut. If you're using a Mac, I'm not sure what that is
Maybe someone could write it in the comments section below if you know what the shortcut is for Mac or Linux
But let's click on export hours and you can see it's got the same file name up here at the top
So the name is GoPro thumbnail jpg. We're gonna select where we want to put it so I'm gonna just click desktop
So it goes to my desktop, but I don't actually want it to overwrite my existing file
Or maybe I do if I do want it to override my existing file
I'd leave the file name the exactly the same as it is, but if I do want to
Have two files that are gonna add to this file name so I'm gonna just type in resize here
So I know that that's the one so now it's resized go pro thumbnail
Jpg. I've got the file name. I've got the location now
we're just gonna go ahead and click export right down here at the bottom and
a new window is gonna pop up you can see this window here and
It's got a couple things that we need to look at
It's got the quality and 95% but we don't know how big this file is or how big we're gonna make it yet
So there's this little box here that says show preview in image window and if I click that right there
It's gonna say calculating file size and you can see that as it is right now a quality of 95
It's 3 megabytes in size. So if I want to if I go up to a
Hundred it's calculating again. That file is gonna be saved at five point four megabytes
But again in my situation, I'm trying to get it under
Under two megabytes. So let's lower that down. So 94 93
Go down, maybe 89
89 is two
Megabytes exactly. I want to go just under to make sure it works. So
88 is one point nine megabytes
That's perfect for what I need if you're looking for something really small. Maybe you let me just type in
75 here and
That would be 1.1 megabytes. So I'm gonna go back to 88 just so we're out 1.9
and now I'm just gonna go ahead and click export right here and
It is exporting that file and if I just shrink this down you're gonna see that
I have a new file on my desktop here. So I've got the original one and the
new resize GoPro
Thumbnail right here and when I hover over it, you can see it is one point egg eight megabytes in size
So it's exactly what I need to upload it to YouTube for my thumbnails
so
So hope this tutorial was able to help you out in reducing the size of your JPEG
Images using GIMP if it did make sure to give it a thumbs up
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