Is there a way to compress image in FileMaker

[jcavard]

Hi! I am designing an application that need to store image in a file. I noticed that 44 images (total of 84Mo on HD) goes up to 440mo once I store them in the filemaker file. Is that normal and is there a way I can compress them and keep a good hi res?

thank you!

[Anne DeBlois]

Are the pictures you insert saved as JPG files? This must have something to do with the way images are stored when they are "blobbed" in a container field, but they must have lost all their compression.

Is the resulting image (once inserted into a container field) still saved as a JPEG or does FileMaker convert it into another format -- which, like BMP files in Windows, doesn't support compression?