Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Hi, I have no connection with this company or its products, but I came across this and thought it would be good to share.

I found a site called jpegmini, which will process your jpegs and reduce them in size without affecting the picture quality. I don't know how it works, but it does. They have a demo on the site where you upload a photo, and they process it then superimpose it on the original, with a slider to control the overlap. You really cannot see any difference.

I have a lot of photos, and it seems that a lot of you guys will have even more than me, and this program can save a lot of space - for storage, or even just for uploading/emailing. Depending on the photo, the reduction can take it down to anywhere between 20% and 60% of the original.

I know that logic dictates you don't get nothing for nothing, but as far as I have been able to see over the past few months, this program comes close.

You can upload your photos, and they will process them free in an hour or so. There is also a program you can download to do it on your own machine. The free version limits you to 20 photos per day, but it only costs $19.95 to buy the full version, which removes the restriction.

Before calling me crazy, at least go check them out! You owe it to yourself...

The link is: www.jpegmini.com

346pak Loc: Texas

Thanks, I'll check that out.

tusketwedge Loc: Nova Scotia Canada

I wouldn't rush to buy or reduce all your pictures until I found out if you can reverse the process with no loss of quality.If your just going to keep them to just review on the computer thats fine, but if you think you might want a print done at a later date ,you could have issues.The best way(mho) is buy an external hard drive and save you picture at full size on it.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

That is a good point. My process is to copy everything onto the PC twice. One is my 'raw' file - still jpeg but unprocessed in any way. The only thing I do to these is delete any obvious 'duds'. The other copy is my working set. I go through these and resize them (changing my camera's default 4000x3000 down to 2000x1500 - way big enough for any screen-based application. Then, they get processed through jpegmini, shrinking them from maybe 3 or 4 MB, down to sometimes less than 1.

Because I keep the originals untouched, I can always go back if needed. Sometimes, my tiny zoom lens can't get close enough to wildlife or something. In those cases, I crop the important bit out of the original, which helps a bit. I call this my 'internal zoom'.

I am attaching 2 photos here - one is the resized and jpegmini'd version, the 2nd one is the original, untouched one. There may be slight differences, because the size is shrunken before I process the 1st one. The sizes in KB are 1170, and 5213 - quite a difference!

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LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

from their literature: "...without reducing the perceptual quality...."

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Well, like I said, it certainly makes uploads smaller and faster. Other than my initial 'raw/negative/master' copy, I process all my jpegs through it. It saves sometimes dozens of MB per folder. I know disk space is cheap these days, but why waste it?

Like I said at the top, I have no connection with the company. I just think this product is good enough that I share info with photo-friends when I can. It's certainly worth a look for anyone who takes as many photos as some people here do.