Found a nice post by Mr.Polite for compressing JPEG images. Here's the link:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=2038463
Posting the code here for my reference in case the original post gets deleted or changed.
Image myImage = //... load the image somehow
// Save the image with a quality of 50%
SaveJpeg (destImagePath, myImage, 50);
//add this!
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
/// <summary>
/// Saves an image as a jpeg image, with the given quality
/// </summary>
/// <param name="path">Path to which the image would be saved.</param>
// <param name="quality">An integer from 0 to 100, with 100 being the
/// highest quality</param>
public static void SaveJpeg (string path, Image img, int quality)
{
if (quality<0 || quality>100)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("quality must be between 0 and 100.");
// Encoder parameter for image quality
EncoderParameter qualityParam =
new EncoderParameter (Encoder.Quality, quality);
// Jpeg image codec
ImageCodecInfo jpegCodec = GetEncoderInfo("image/jpeg");
EncoderParameters encoderParams = new EncoderParameters(1);
encoderParams.Param[0] = qualityParam;
img.Save (path, jpegCodec, encoderParams);
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns the image codec with the given mime type
/// </summary>
private static ImageCodecInfo GetEncoderInfo(string mimeType)
{
// Get image codecs for all image formats
ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
// Find the correct image codec
for(int i=0; i<codecs.Length; i++)
if(codecs[i].MimeType == mimeType)
return codecs[i];
return null;
}