Pictures and photos can take up lots of space on a computer system. That’s usually not that much of a problem considering today’s hard drive capacities but it quickly becomes one if the images need to be transferred. Take a modern digital camera for example; These cameras can produce photos that take up Megabytes of storage space and come in resolutions that most computer monitors cannot display at once due to their size.
Instead of transferring several four Megabyte photos from the last holiday, family event or party one could reduce the resolution of the photo to reduce its file size so that it can be transferred and viewed easier.
FILEminimizer Pictures is a photo compression software that has been created for exactly that purpose. The software can batch process photos that are loaded into its interface by the user. It can for instance be used to reduce the size of all photos that have been transferred from a digital camera to the computer.
The supported image formats that can be loaded into the software are JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP and EMF. The program will automatically display all loaded photos in a queue in its main interface. A second queue is displayed that displays the target directory for the optimized images and their names.
FILEminimizer Pictures by default renames the pictures and saves them in the same directory as the original photos. The text that is added to the filename can be edited by the user in the options. It is here also possible to make the program replace the original files instead.
Available are four compression settings of which one can be customized by the user. The three standard compression settings are web / e-mail compression, standard compression and low / print compression. The names refer to the intended usage with standard compression selected by default.
The screen resolution and JPEG quality can be selected manually if custom compression is selected.
A click on the optimize files button will start the image optimization which can reduce the size of an image by up to 96%. The program did convert photos with a size of about 2 Megabytes into images with a size of less than 100 Kilobytes using standard compression making this ideal before transferring them over the Internet or a network.
The resulting photos do have a lower screen resolution but the image quality is still excellent. FILEminimzer Pictures managed to reduce the size of 129 photos by 260 Megabytes, that is an reduction of 2 Megabytes per photo. The resulting images all had a size of about 0.10 Megabytes which meant that about 13 Megabytes would be transferred over a network or Internet if the compressed photos would be transferred opposed to 273 Megabytes for the original photos.
FILEminimizer Pictures can add an entry to the context menu of Windows Explorer so that it becomes more comfortable to send photos to the program from the default file browser in Windows. The program is ideal for anyone who either wants to reduce the size of the images and photos on a computer system or transfers photos and images over a network or Internet regularly. The program is very easy to use and is therefor suitable for all computer experience levels.
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