FILEminimizer Pictures back last year was still a commercial application that we gave away during our Christmas Giveaway. Recently the company developing the picture compression software Balesio turned the application into a freeware meaning that everyone can download and use the program free of charge.
FILEminimizer Pictures basically compresses images to save up storage space or reduce the time it takes to transfer files on a local network or the Internet. The quality of the image remains the same, more or less. At least, the compressed image is not really distinguishable from the original image.
The size reduction depends largely on the original image. The program works best with uncompressed image formats but can resize compressed formats as well. To use it users add one or multiple images to the application, pick from one of the three available compression settings or a custom one, and click the optimize files button to compress them.
The three available compression formats are web / e-mail compression, standard compression and low / print compression. For the custom profile users can select a screen resolution and a quality setting.
FILEminimizer Pictures displays the results in a table in the end. The table lists all images that have been optimized as well as their old and new size and the reduction in percent.
The image compression software may change the resolution of the original image, which is something that users need to look out for before optimizing the files.
FILEminimizer Pictures is available for download at the developer website. The program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system.
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I got this initially at a giveaway site. Works great.
Typical redcution for is around 40 to 60 %
I haven’t tried this yet, but it sounds like a web designers dream come true. I’m told that the pages on my site take too long to load, This is usually because of images, so I’ve resized them all in photoshop. I’m hoping this will be a great help.
Hi Martin
Sorry. I’ve just noticed that now, after trying another method. And, i suppose its no big deal really on selecting multiple images. I’ve just been trying to delete my message, as I don’t want others to be put off. Thankfully you replied in the nick of time, so can you please remove my comment. Thanks. Sorry again. I should have taken more time over it.
done
After giving myself more time to evaluate this, I found it an absolutely essential tool for optimizing your websites. Some over creative people tend to forget that while their websites may look and sound great, for visitors, it may be too time consuming to have to wait for your pages to load to actually view it.
I use a free web hosting service for my site. In the forum, i asked for the opinions of others, and the most common complaint was how long it took to load. Someone suggested using photoshop to “save images for web”, which I did. This sped things up, altho, it meant having to go through each image individually. Then, I came across this piece of magic. It reduced file size even more. Quality was still great, so no sacrifices were made. It’s all very well resizing images physically on your pages. However, that just takes care of formating. The original size stays the same. That’s when FileMinimizer Pictures comes in really handy.
You won’t be able to optimise images any better than this. It even challenges PhotoShop.