Photo Compressor

Photo Compressor has been released.

Photo Compressor reduces the disk space required for your photos while maintaining the dimensions and quality of the image itself. You can right-click file in Windows Explorer, or drag 'n' drop photos into the app.

Compressing your photos saves disk space and allows for quicker file transfers, uploads, mobile storage, and backups. You can save more photos in your online albums, reduce the space occupied by your photo library, optimize the images on your website or blog, or simply send your photos faster than ever.

How do you benefit from Photo Compressor

• Uploading: Reduce the time to upload photos to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat by up to 50%
• Photo Albums: Save disk space by compressing your photos while keeping the same quality and dimensions.
• Emailing: Send large photos, more photos, or just send quicker by using smaller files. It saves on bandwidth costs as well.
• Web Designers: Speed up your website using lower image weights (smaller photo files), faster uploading, and complying to Google's new search algorithms (website performance balancing)

You have full control over the compression settings for your photos (JPG/JPEG  files), and you'll be glad to know that Photo Compressor is 100% safe to use, we never overwrite your original photos. We simply put the newly compressed photos in a folder of your choosing.

Privacy and Security are a high priority for us at Duckhead Software, should you ever need to contact support, we'll never ask for remote access to your computer or for any personal information. See our website for more details on security and safety.

Features

• Dynamic color matching fully supports your Windows theming, dark mode, and accent colors.
• Drag 'n' Drop or Right-Click in Windows Explorer.
• No limits on the number or size of photos that can be compress photos.
• Most photos can be compressed up to 70% without loss of quality (unless you have super-human vision)
• Live preview shows you the difference between the original and compressed version.
• 100% safe. All compressed photos go into an output folder (you choose where).

Overview of the Optimize Compression

Batch Image Compressor has several compression options to ensure it suits your needs. In this blog, we'll look at the Optimize Compression.

•  Optimize: Automatically reduces the size of all your images while keeping the best image quality.

Let’s have a look at the process for optimizing a folder: -

1. Enumerate

Fast enumeration of the folder using the Windows 10 indexing service. This returns a link to every image file.

2. Iterate

Go through each of the files found during enumeration and pass it to the Filter engine.

3. Filter

Apply any filters and if the file is applicable, pass it to the Optimize engine.

4. Optimize

Optimizing reduces the file size while keeping the best image quality. To ensure we don’t lose quality, we start with a high-quality setting (100%) and see what the resulting file size would be.

  • If the file size would be smaller, the file is passed to the next stage ‘save’

  • If the file size would be equal, or higher, we increase the compression and try again.

  • This is repeated until the file size is smaller, or the quality level drops below acceptable limits

  • If the file cannot be reduced, we copy the original

All this is performed in memory and uses multiple processor cores for performance.

5. Save

Once the output folder and new filename have been determined, the file is either saved with the new compression level or copied.

Metadata flags that are applicable are also copied.

The result is we have a new set of compressed files that are guaranteed to take up less disk space, but still contain the best quality as possible. 

For individual files this may not be a massive reduction, for that you would use one of the other compression options which we’ll blog about in the coming weeks, but for collections, the accumulative reduction can lead to gigabytes of savings. 

Batch Image Compressor 10.1607 Released

Batch Image Compressor improves the compression of images and photos in your collections, archives, and folders, freeing up space while retaining image quality.

Compressing your images saves disk space and allows for quicker file transfers, uploads, mobile storage, and backups. You can save more photos in your online albums, reduce the space occupied by your photo library, optimize the images on your website or blog, or simply send your images faster than ever.

You choose the compression methods that suits you the best:-

• Optimize: Automatically reduces the size of all your images while keeping the best image quality

• Manual: You have full control over the quality settings.

• Percentage: Select a percentage you'd like the images reduced to, and we'll keep compressing until that percentage is reached.

• Multi-Compress: Select multiple compression levels and we'll compress each image to each level, each with a suffix so you can compare.

Batch Image Compressor works on JPG/JPEG  images. Other image formats such as PNG, BMP, GIF and TIFF can be converted automatically to JPG/JPEG to reduce their size, or copied without change to keep all your files together.

Download from: Windows 10 Store

Website: Batch-Image-Compressor