I put this as a contest, but it's still a question!
Here's the original image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1663633/original_scan.jpg
Original size is about 1 megabyte. How would you reduce the size so that the final print on a A4 paper (about letter size I think..) still looks good?
Rules:
- The process MUST be automatic (to be applied to hundreds of similar images) therefore no manual correction is allowed (like erase black borders in photoshop with the eraser tool)
- Resolution (200dpi) cannot be lowered any further
Here are a few Ideas
- reduce number of colors
- reduce noise (black pixels without any meaning..) and smooth things out..
I managed to achieve 156KB, can you best me? You should explain how you did it of course =)
P.S. I uploaded my image with dropbox but maybe there's a simpler way.. don't know.. you can look at my compressed version here
