jpg freeware

Some of the software applications you can use to convert jpg files are:

• MS Paint - Not exactly freeware, but most people already have it installed, so it's simply a matter of finding the application and launching it! The simplest way; since you probably already have it installed!
• The Gimp - The most flexible and feature-rich method.
• Bulk Image Converter - Image conversion freeware (Open Source)

Other Useful Software and Tools:

• Fireshot Firefox add-on - Take screenshots of any webpage.
• JPG Freeware at Sourceforge.net - nearly 200 applications to choose from.
• ImageMagick
• OpenDraw - an open-source implementation of CorelDraw.
• Tesseract - The best open source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for converting scanned documents or photos of documents to text.

Why you should download the Gimp!

If you are going to be working with images, you should have a good image program installed in your computer so that you can handle the task properly. Relying upon online or barebones services will give you low quality images.

The whole purpose of using jpg compression is so that your images are not overly large for their purpose.

If you are a professional photographer and are showing off your work, you might want high quality / high bandwidth images so that your readers can see the quality of your work.

For most others, compression is far more important so that the images will load quickly and not hog bandwidth.

An application like "The Gimp" gives you the flexibility to decide upon the level of compression (85% is usually great for most uses) and this will have a huge impact on your file size. Read more about "The Gimp".