MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER MAC OS
MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER PRO
MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER TRIAL

The next comparism takes the image exported with a 70% setting and the resulting images from JPEGMini and Faststone which were mae from the 100% image. There almost no differences when comparing with the exported images at a 100% quality setting. If you don’t have Lightroom you’ll get the same or even better results by using the free tool FastStone Image Viewer which was released in version 5.6 shortly.Īnd now we’ll compare the resulting images: Reducing the size by 62% sounds pretty good, but you’ll get almost the same result by exporting the image with a quality setting of 70% in Lightroom. From the highest to the lowest qualitiy setting JPEGMini reduces the size of the files from 62% down to 23%. There you see that the images with a JPEG qualitiy of 60 and 40 arent’t touched by JPEGMini.

In the above screenshot you’ll see the results of JPEGMini converting the images from the lower screenshot. I exported 2 different images with JPEG quality settings from 100-40 with Lightroom(files with the ending -2 came from my Lumix, the other image was shot with a Canon 5D MK II). Just drag and drop the exported JPEG files to the tool and there is an option to store the reduced files in a different folder.Īs you might notice on the above screenshot some images were skipped, so this leads us to the results. There is no plugin installed for Photoshop or Lightroom -(

MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER TRIAL

But ater intsallaing the trial version you’ll be disappointed, because there is the regular desktop version installed only. But with a service like spamgourmet this requirement is fullfilled without having spam mails afterwards. There is a trial version available which asks for an email adress after installation. But i’m a little bit irritated why on Windows Lightroom is requested in version 5 while version 4 should fit the requirements on MAC OS. With such a plugin you could do your export jobs a lot easier not executing an external program for the file size reduction.

MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER PRO

Compared to the regular JPEGMini, which is aold for $ 20,–, the pro version includes a Photoshop and Lightroom plugin.

MAC VERSION OF FILE MINIMIZER MAC OS

Meanwhile JPEGMini offers a pro version both for Windows and Mac OS at a reduced price of $ 99.

The advertisement promised a reduction of up to 80% of the original size, but i only got this result if the images were exported at a very high JPEG quality.

The results of those tools for reducing the file size were deflating. I already checked out tools like compressor.io and JPEGMini. The user demands the best compromise between size and quality. Nobody wants to download an image with a smartphone with a size of a couple of MB. So lets take a look an howto minimize JPEG files with JPEGMini Introduction Minimizing JPEG files is a permanent task for you as a photographer, because presenting your work on the web there might be size limitations and you want to limit download sizes on the different client devices.

Mac version of file minimizer