The older ones I store on an external hdd and eventually kinda forget.īut this app made me realize a better way to organize my pics. Just a 8GB usb-stick will hold a couple of years worth of pics, haha.Īnd what about a laptop with limited free space on it´s HDD? I can´t keep al my pics on my macbook, so it's only a couple of recent collections. That also made me realize that this proces is perfect for making a backup that´s nice and small, so you can always keep your pics somewhere! Why not keep m in 3 places at once. Yeah, a loss of 1,7 GB!!!! I immediatly compared the original and copy of multiple files and to my disbelief I could honestly not find a noticable difference between the two, zooming in up to 400%. The 200 new files had a total filesize of just 256MB. You can chose how the new files are renamed and I chose to just add the letter ´M´ at the end.

I processed the same 200 with this app, making sure that they kept their original format, dimensions and meta-info intact. This app is just amazing! I was looking for a way to share a boatload of pi ctures made during a holiday with friends, but the first 200 JPEGs already added up to more than 1,9 GB. Managing/Sharing/Backing up TONS of pics? You need this app so bad!. It's not necessary to have three for the same function! However, this odd design choice doesn't harm functionality.įILEminimizer Pictures offers impressive compression of image files, without the inconvenience of having to decompress them for viewing. There is little to criticize with FILEminimizer Pictures, except that the interface has too many buttons that repeat the same function. Results are impressive, so for bulk compression for things like email or saving to a USB for a presentation, FILEminimizer Pictures is really useful. In our tests of FILEminimizer Pictures, file size was reduced from anywhere between 65% and 80%, which really makes a difference when optimizing in bulk. High compression gives you reduced quality, but tiny file sizes, whereas low compression keeps quality high while still reducing file size impressively. Before optimization, you should either choose one of three compression settings, or customize your own.

The simple interface features a 'to optimize' window, that you can drag and drop any image file into. That sounds quite unlikely, but surprisingly FILEminimizer Pictures works very well.

Image compression software freeware