Compressing Pictures?

[PowerRanger]

Hi all. I'm trying to compress some pictures in order to save some HDD space, but don't seem to be having much luck with it. I've tried WinRAR and 7-ZIp, but the compressed file is basically the same size as the orignal (ex. uncompressed folder of pictures = 768MB, compressed file = 700+MB).

Is there any software that'll allow better compression? Or am I reaching for too much? Thanks in advance.

 

[AnnonUSA]

JPG is a compressed format, you cannot expect to compress them very much. You can resize or change the quality of the picture to make them smaller, but that is not a good idea.

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: AnnonUSA
JPG is a compressed format, you cannot expect to compress them very much. You can resize or change the quality of the picture to make them smaller, but that is not a good idea.

QFT

 

[PowerRanger]

Ahhh OK, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[0roo0roo]

basically any media type file is not worth compressing with zip type compressors.
stuff like text files and system files can compress very well.

 

[corkyg]

Suggestion . . . get an external drive and store your images there. Only keep a select few for current use on your system HDD.