.BMP to .JPG

Anyone know of a free program that'll import a .bmp image and let me save as a .jpg??

Cheers
Stevie

a zillion can, maybe you can find a nice one at www.tucows.com ?

MS Paint will if you have MS Word or anything else that installs the jpg exporter.

GIMP is free, but frankly that is overkill just for converting from bmp to jpg. Windows already has built-in imaging software which can do that.

mspaint will,use "SAVE AS"and pick what u want.

Yeah, but in other programs, sometimes it says something like "Error: file is not a bitmap." still a good idea though!

Try Easy Thumbnails (freeware) at http://www.fookes.com/

You can also try irfanview at www.irfanview.com

> mspaint will,use "SAVE AS"and pick what u want.

Not in Win98 or 2000 it won't.

Oh yes it does.

Thanks to all - I'll look at the suggestions.

I did try using MSPaint (xp pro) and it was easy enough to save an loaded .bmp as .jpg but as Electronin mentioned - other programs didn't recognise it as being a jpg file so I wasn't convinced it was actually converting anything.

with xp pro, u can convert it using the preview thing. (the default program that loads up pictures)

So it does!!! Donkey!!

MSPaint seems to make a dogs breakfast of saving anything other than bitmaps, though. The saved image quality with some file formats is pretty shabby, I've found.

Because each image that is created or loaded in, MSPaint tries to save a bit of memory, by defaulting to save it as the lowest quality it can. To get around this, and preserve quality, always Save As 24-bit image, then load back in and save as Jpg or whatever.