JPEGmini

[Semper Fidelis]

Just started using this program recently. Essentially it is a JPEG shrinking program that shrinks photos in such a way that there is no perceptible loss in image quality. As image sensors get bigger and bigger the size of JPG's has grown as well. I have a digital camera that takes 5-7MB photos with every shot. This program reduces the file size to approximately 2MB. I've applied to the photos I took in this year and saved about 2GB of storage space.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Can you mass convert? Freeware or where is it available?

 

[littlepeople]

Luckily for me, storage is cheap. I go through 2 Tb of photos a year easy.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Can you mass convert? Freeware or where is it available?

They have an online converter but the PC version is $19 for the product ($199 for Pro). The stand-alone version allows you to drop selected folders or files to be converted in bulk. The Pro version promises quicker conversion (using multiple CPU's) and a Lightroom plugin.

Luckily for me, storage is cheap. I go through 2 Tb of photos a year easy.

I'm not worried about the price of storage. I have a NAS and can expand for a reasonable amount of money. Even so, there is a certain amount of "gravity" to a large amount of data. If I can reduce the amount I would have to restore (while not losing quality of images) then I will do so. Even with a 100M connection to the internet it takes days to backup my data to Cloud backup.

 

[Edward]

JPEG is already a lossy compression. So you are layering one level of compression on top of another. Is the output a JPEG file or something different?