JpegMini – The utility that makes you lose weight in Jpeg files
If you have a lot of photos on your hard drive, you have many photos will certainly be enticed by a utility that, as JpegMini, also promises to reduce it to five times their weight.
If we do a statistic among those who read us and ask them what are the documents that take up more space, we are almost certain that a good 50% will tell us that, after the video, the images are larger files.
A library of iPhoto, for example, can easily reach 10 GB and even more if you deposit photos of a few years of vacation or taking a lot of pictures.
For this application, such as JpegMini ( $ 19.99 on the Mac App Store ) that promises to be able to reduce the file in Jpeg even 5 times should arouse some attention. We have set up as a test of this program developed by Israeli Beamr, a company specializing in compression technologies and optimization of the video.
JpegMini what it does
JpegMini is a software for Mac that has a single purpose: to reduce the size of the file in Jpeg, says the developer, up to five times. The system by which this operation is performed has very technical aspects, we’re not going to explore here. In general, says Beamr is analyzed, the yield of the color applied and a compression factor that compresses beyond the standard level images. Because the system is taken into account with which the human eye reads the color, the photo output is substantially identical to that of an image in Jpeg not compressed by JpegMini.
More photos in Jpeg is large, the higher will be the percentage reduction of the picture, ranging from a 30/50% (maximum) of a 1 megapixel image at 70/80% of an 8-megapixel image and beyond. To achieve this goal Beamr has fielded 18 proprietary technologies subject to patent.
The system used has been the focus of some technical presentations held on the lights of San Francisco electronic imaging and verified with tests based on the ITU BT.500 which determined that there is no discernable difference to the human eye when a compressed image with JpegMini is compared with the original or when printed on paper at 200 DPI. All this means that JpegMini, on paper, is ideal for those who have large collections of photographic images that reside on your hard drive and want to reduce them.
How it works
JpegMini is a very simple application. It consists of a window on which we can go to drag our images to reduce them. The options are few: we can only choose whether to overwrite the photos with those tablets, or select using the cmd command or any folder on your hard drive and also to see all the processed JPEG photos that are contained within it.
Among the options, there is also the possibility to reduce the resolution of photos bringing them to 960×720, 2,592×1,944 and 1,600X1,200, this reduces further, beyond the simple factor of compression technology applied by the JpegMini, the images.
The interface is just as simple: we have a window on which to drag the images (though we cannot use the icon on the dock, a small discomfort that is felt tangibly when using JpegMini often). When the process is started, we will navigate through photos and build representations of their one above the other, while a counter tells us how much space is saved. In another counter-top, space tells us when we have historically saved with the application.
JpegMini – Conclusion
JpegMini does its job very well, and reduces in a very simple picture in JPEG files. Who has an extensive photo library could save several GB of hard drive, even a dozen if you have the same photo library of the writer who comes to 35 GB and the quality will remain substantially unchanged.
This opportunity is important for those who, like professional photographers, their collections saved in Jpeg format (also keeping the RAW format) for catalogs and wallet or simply to create jobs to send to the press or magazines.
JpegMini is also the ideal solution for anyone who runs a website and upload images; if one needs to load a lot during the day the saving of time may become very tangible and also in this case the problems are still less perceptible to the particularity of the media. It is virtually impossible for those who sail on a website, especially in the absence of a basis for comparison, note that a photo has been treated by MiniJpeg.
In light of all this the only limit Jpeg mini is small in the price: it costs $ 19.99 (can also download a free version with limited functions), a cost not unusual for a utility camera, but fully justified by its functions Depreciable and certainly saw that for some means to save money for a new HD.
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