![]() It’s a simple little app that cost about 250 Swedish kronor or 30 US dollars. So on the recommendation of another photographer I decided to give a look to JPEGmini. Review JPEGmini Pro is a minimalistic application that allows a user to compress and hence, reduce the size of JPEG photos considerably but without. Having downloaded my entire uploads directory and needing to compress everything uploaded to the site up until 2017 I needed something that was going to go faster. If you like the results, you can get easier operation using the JPEGmini technology in three basic flavors. The basic JPEGmini app costs 20 and runs natively on Windows and Mac iOS. Normally when I am prepping a blog post I toss all the pictures I want to compress into the app and then walk away from the computer for 15-20 minutes and let it do it’s thing. The JPEGmini Pro version costs 150, runs a little faster, and comes with a Lightroom plugin thats handy for any avid photographers. It normally takes a few minutes to do one picture. The only problem with it is that it is incredibly slow. This has been pretty good it reduces image sizes by about 50% to 60% without any visible loss in quality. Now about a year ago I started using a beta version of a free Mac app called ImageOptim with the Google Guetzli compression. So I downloaded the entire uploads folder from the blog to my computer and set about compressing the original files. It utilizes all the CPU cores in your computer simultaneously, crunching your photos at high speeds, so you can get your work done in no time. The program reduces the file size of your photos significantly (up to 80), while preserving their full resolution and quality. ![]() The result was hundreds of JPEG files that were anywhere from 2MB to 4MB in size. JPEGmini Pro is a photo optimization tool for Windows users. I use pretty large images on the site and made the mistake of uploading a lot of them without running them through any compression. You can select 3 default resize ratios, or manually set the maximum. 99 stated they would recommend this to a friend. ![]() There is a standard/basic version that costs 19.99, but it does differ in a few ways from the version I’ve reviewed here. All photo software is capable of saving JPEG images as smaller files, but engineers generally accomplish this by ramping up the compression without much regard to what’s in the photo. The Enterprise/Pro version with all the bells and whistles (that I’m reviewing) retails for right under 150, with an upgrade from the basic version clocking in at 129. If you wish to reduce the resolution of your photos to further reduce their file size, open the Preferences dialog from the Settings menu, select Export to Folder, and check Resize Photos. In fact, the software has essentially a perfect rating from over 108 reviewers with no cons listed (never seen that before). During processing, JPEGmini displays the photo currently being worked on, along with a meter showing how much space is being saved. I had been going through the boring task of compressing old images that I posted on the blog. By default, JPEGmini preserves the full resolution of your original photos. I recently got put on to an little app called JPEGmini and felt it was worth mentioning it on the blog.
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