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I tested the software on a selection of my own image files and I have to admit I couldn’t tell the difference between the full-fat JPEG files and the ‘diet’ versions that JPEGmini created, even when viewed at 100% on screen. Files up to 60MP can be crunched by JPEGmini Pro, which will please photographers shooting on medium-format digital cameras.

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JPEGmini comes as a standalone piece of software with a simple drag-and-drop interface and there’s also a Lightroom plug-in available with the Pro version. Clients include Netflix, which uses the software to reduce image sizes and bandwidth use across its global systems. According to Beamr, the developer of JPEGmini, around 250 million image files each day are squashed via JPEGmini Server.

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JPEGmini Pro is aimed at professional photographers as well as websites that want to create images that will load as quickly as possible, something that’s increasingly important in an age of cellular communications. On smaller image files the savings are a little lower at a still very useful 30-50%. What does this mean in practice? On larger images it’s possible to reduce the file size by up to 80% or a factor of 5. In other words, JPEGmini analyses each image and then sacrifices unnecessary data points without harming the integrity of the image. JPEGmini does this by creating a single quantization matrix for an entire image so that it’s compliant with the baseline JPEG standard. When I first saw what JPEGmini could do, I immediately started JPEGmini’ing all the photos on my wedding photography website, reducing each file by around 50%, and speeding up average load times by… a crapload!īelow are the results of a page speed test by Pingdom on a Shotkit page, before and after using JPEGmini to reduce the file size of 12 JPGs.This is where JPEGmini comes in: a new piece of software that offers to save image files in the JPEG baseline standard but with a much smaller footprint and no greater loss of image quality than regular JPEG compression. Google places importance on site load speed as part of their ranking algorithm. Fast websites are good for visitors (particularly impatient brides who load 5 wedding photographer sites at once!), and good for Google. The fact of the matter is, the faster your website the better. This one is huge for me, and will be for anyone else who relies on their website to earn a living. If you have folders containing large amounts of JPG images on your desktop (waiting to upload to client galleries etc), reducing the file sizes here will result in faster boot times and computer operation, particularly on older devices.īottom Line: JPEGmini has sped up my laptop by increasing my available hard disk space. This is especially apparent on devices with limited solid state hard drive space, such as laptops. No matter what computer set up you’re running, if your hard drive has more space, it will run faster and more efficiently. I can now provide the exact same quality of photo, at over half the file size. Wedding photographers, you’re going to love this! Ever tried to squeeze 11gb worth of client JPGs onto your 8gb USB thumb drive? Of course you have! With every new camera release, it seems like with all the new mega pixels, our file sizes are doubling and doubling.Īnyway, from now on, when I deliver HIGH RES photos to my clients, I use the JPEGmini Lightroom plugin (more on this later) to export my photos at half the size of what they would have been having used my previous export method, and easily fit every file onto my USB thumb drive.īottom Line: JPEGmini has meant I don’t need to order any costly new USB thumb drives. ONE THIRD! With no noticeable loss in quality. You might say, what’s the point in this? Storage is so cheap these days! Why would I need to save space? Well, I’m glad you asked…īottom Line: JPEGmini has reduced my Lightroom JPEG backup catalogue by 1/3. Since waking up this morning, I’ve reduced the size of my entire photo backup library on my main iMac (and 4tb Mybook WD external hard drive), my partner’s Macbook Air and my old and decrepit Macbook… saving over 26gb in hard drive space! If you don’t have time to read the rest of the review, this is all you need to know: JPEGmini is an essential piece of software for anyone who stores images on their computer.

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With apps and software available for everything under the sun, it’s rare that something new comes along that you find absolutely essential.įor me, that piece of software is JPEGmini, an amazing mac/pc application (and Lightroom plugin) that uses patented image optimisation technology to reduce the file size of photos significantly (up to 80%), while preserving their full resolution and quality. It’s not often that that you try a piece of software that completely blows you away.

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