what's a good (small/simple) program that converts .bmp to .jpg or .gif without much loss of quality?

[andylawcc]

I know Adobe Photoshop would be the definite answer,
but I don't have it and found it too technical to handle.

is there a way other than MSpaint?

 

[SillyMan]

for the pc try iview330.exe at any of the download sites
www.download.com or zdnet any of the should have it
works great an is free
the programs name is IrfanView and the version 33o above may not be the latest one out but should be close

 

[AndyHui]

You should try Thumbs Plus from Cerious Software. By FAR the best graphics organisation and manipulation program I have ever used.

 

[Moonbender]

Lots of programs can do what you want, commercial, shareware, freeware. I wouldn't get Photoshop just for this cause, especially, though it is a great program, it's not too good at converting. Just look at some software archive like Tucows.

My personal recommendation is Picaview.

 

[Shalmanese]

I always use ACDSee (www.acdsee.com if its not obvious) for graphics viewing since it is fast to browse through images and powerfull as well as being intuitive. It apparently supports dos commands so it is easy to do a batch convert of bmp's to jpg's. dont know about the quality tho .

 

[duragezic]

I like ACDSee. Quality is OK but I like it alot for viewing pictures because it loads fast.

 

[Tauren]

Hunt down irfanviewer. It's small, it does batch conversions, automatically recongnizes if someone has inadvertently changed the extension adn best of all it's FREE.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

acdsee

 

[Shagga]

ACDSee and Thumbs+. Both are excellent.

 

[Moonbender]

ACDC is fine, can't go wrong with it. Same company which made PicaView, btw.

 

[DefRef]

HyperSnap DX can read, write and convert a lot of formats.