While using images in blogs, often we may want the image it be in .jpeg format as most of the other formats like .bmp occupy more space.

Image Converter is a small utility software which It opens 34 and saves to 19 image file types.


Supported files formats
Format BPP
(reads) Compression
(reads) File extensions Read/Write
support
MS Windows Icon 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 none ico R
MS Windows Cursor 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 none cur R
MS Windows Animated Cursor 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 none ani R
Windows Bitmap 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 Run Length Encoding (RLE8, RLE4), none bmp, dib, rle R/W
Graphics Interchange Format 1..8 LZW gif R/W
Joint Photographic Experts Group Format 8, 24, 32 JPEG jpeg, jpg, jpe R/W
Kodak Photo CD JPEG pcd R
ZSoft Paintbrush PCX 1, 4, 8, 24 Run Length Encoding (RLE), none pcx, pcc R/W
ZSoft Paintbrush DCX 1, 4, 8, 24 Run Length Encoding (RLE), none dcx R/W
Portable Network Graphics 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 ZIP DEFLATE png R/W
PPM 24 none ppm R
PBM 1 none pbm R
PGM 8 none pgm R
Truevision Targa 8, 15, 16, 24, 32 Run Length Encoding (RLE), none tga R/W
Tag Image File Format 1, 8, 16, 24, 32, 64 CCITT-RLE, CCITT-FAX3, CCITT-FAX4, LZW, JPEG, CCITT-RLEW, PACKBITS tif, tiff R/W
Wireless Bitmap (Level 0) 1 none wbmp, wbm R/W
Windows metafiles - none wmf R/W
Aldus Placeable metafiles - none apm R/W
Enhanced metafiles - none emf R/W
Adobe Photoshop Document 1, 8, 16 bits per channel Run Length Encoding (RLE), none psd R
GEM Bit Image 1, 4, 8 Run Length Encoding (RLE) img R
Amiga Interchange File 1..8, 24 Run Length Encoding (RLE) iff R
SUN Raster 1, 4, 8, 24, 32 none ras R
Silicon Graphics Image 1..4, 8, 16, 24, 32 Run Length Encoding (RLE), none sgi R
X-Windows bitmap 1 none xbm R
X-Windows pixmap 8 none xpm R
Word Perfect Graphics - Run Length Encoding (RLE), none wpg R






Once installed the software adds a shell extension to Windows Explorer menu. When you want to convert an image, right click on image and you can see the options to convert the image as well as a thumbnail of this image. You can select many images as well. In this case you won’t see thumbnail, but still will be able to convert all selected images.




This converter is supported in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT,2000, XP, not sure about Vista. The only disadvantage of this software is that its not a freeware. Although you can convert any number of images in the freeware, a logo will appear in the converted images.

The free version can be downloaded from here:



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Regards

-Sanjiv