Help..Whats the best free tool to compress your images??

Galantis · #1 06-02-17

Hallo everyone, well after a long trip, i have hundreds of images that need to be compressed. I basically have no more storage space, plus compressing them would ensure that transfering the images will be easy peasy!. I would love to get personal reviews on what exactly you think works best when it comes to tools that are free. Thank you

Rodbender · #2 06-02-17

Try this one, I've used it quite a lot and found it OK. It was recommended to me and as it did a good job I never looked for any other software.

http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/st...=FileOptimizer

Galantis · #3 07-02-17

Hi Rodbender how nice of you to offer some help. Unfortunately, it seems to me that what you shared is more of a file optimizer as opposed to an image compressor. I maybe wrong, feel free to correct me if i am.

Rodbender · #4 07-02-17

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Originally Posted by Galantis

Hi Rodbender how nice of you to offer some help. Unfortunately, it seems to me that what you shared is more of a file optimizer as opposed to an image compressor. I maybe wrong, feel free to correct me if i am.

Yes it would appear that way, but it dose a very good job of image files too. I did look at it's ratings before downloading it and it was highly praised for its capabilities. As I say it has never failed to work ok for me.

Pol · #5 07-02-17

[eQUOTE=Galantis;84223]Hallo everyone, well after a long trip, i have hundreds of images that need to be compressed. I basically have no more storage space, plus compressing them would ensure that transfering the images will be easy peasy!. I would love to get personal reviews on what exactly you think works best when it comes to tools that are free. Thank you

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Have a look at 'Easy Thumbnails' see what you think.

http://www.fookes.com/easy-thumbnails

BTW don't be put off by the name if the software .... you can choose tge size of your 'thumbnail' yourself ... it diesn have to be a small thumbnail.

sorry a I can't help much, I'm incapacitated and only able to use,a. small kindle with a fat stylus.

pol

Rodbender · #6 07-02-17

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Originally Posted by Pol

[eQUOTE=Galantis;84223]Hallo everyone, well after a long trip, i have hundreds of images that need to be compressed. I basically have no more storage space, plus compressing them would ensure that transfering the images will be easy peasy!. I would love to get personal reviews on what exactly you think works best when it comes to tools that are free. Thank you

Have a look at 'Easy Thumbnails' see what you think.

http://www.fookes.com/easy-thumbnails

BTW don't be put off by the name if the software .... you can choose tge size of your 'thumbnail' yourself ... it diesn have to be a small thumbnail.

sorry a I can't help much, I'm incapacitated and only able to use,a. small kindle with a fat stylus.

pol[/QUOTE]

Well done Pol for bringing this to our attention. I have for years now been using Easy Thumbnails to resize my images before uploading to a web host ready to post on forums. Never gave it a thought that this programme compresses images. I have always used File Optimizer to reduce storage size when saving to external hard drive or DVD. I can recommend Easy Thumbnails as a good program and there are loads of options to set the software up to your personal preferences. This could well be just what you are looking for.

Galantis · #7 08-02-17

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Originally Posted by Rodbender

Have a look at 'Easy Thumbnails' see what you think.

http://www.fookes.com/easy-thumbnails

BTW don't be put off by the name if the software .... you can choose tge size of your 'thumbnail' yourself ... it diesn have to be a small thumbnail.

sorry a I can't help much, I'm incapacitated and only able to use,a. small kindle with a fat stylus.

pol

Well done Pol for bringing this to our attention. I have for years now been using Easy Thumbnails to resize my images before uploading to a web host ready to post on forums. Never gave it a thought that this programme compresses images. I have always used File Optimizer to reduce storage size when saving to external hard drive or DVD. I can recommend Easy Thumbnails as a good program and there are loads of options to set the software up to your personal preferences. This could well be just what you are looking for.[/QUOTE]

This was super useful!. I guess you are right! File Optimization would be the very first step to reduce the amount of space occupied when saving to an external hard drive. I will check out the program you recommended. Thank you.

Rodbender · #8 08-02-17

Do give Easy Thumbnails a go too. It's great for preparing images to upload to a forum. Will resize to forums max display size and reduce the upload time no end. I use the Lanczos3 algorithm setting and the Quality of images is unaffected.

Galantis · #9 13-02-17

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Originally Posted by Rodbender

Do give Easy Thumbnails a go too. It's great for preparing images to upload to a forum. Will resize to forums max display size and reduce the upload time no end. I use the Lanczos3 algorithm setting and the Quality of images is unaffected.

This is a good tip that i didn't think of before. Thank you for suggesting it!

Galantis · #10 15-02-17

Well back to the topic, i was reading more on image compression and came across a blog post here that had summarised it quite well. I found out that i can also use Caesium image compressor, a tool for windows to actually do this! Incase you have a Mac, there is a mac version of this and its the ImageOptim, both of which are freeware. Needless to say, i will be trying out the Windows version of this freeware tool this weekend.

selenajain · #11 30-06-17

You can give a try to this tool image compressing tool - https://compressor.io/compress

linda09 · #12 18-07-17

A bit late to the game, but I've been using JPEGmini for a few years now and have no complaints.
I think it was the catchphrase - Your photos on a diet - that caught my eye initially.

http://www.jpegmini.com/

selenajain · #13 07-05-18

To reduce size of images without loosing pixels and quality, google photos is a great place for that. However, there are other tools for compressing images you can use:
1.*Compressor.io
2.*Kraken.io
3. PNG Compressor*||*jpg compressor
4.*Tinypng
5.*OptimiZilla
6.*ImageRecycle

selenajain · #14 07-05-18

To reduce size of images without loosing pixels and quality, google photos is a great place for that. However, there are other tools for compressing images you can use:
1. Compressor.io
2. Kraken.io
3. PNG Compressor*||*jpg compressor
4. Tinypng
5. OptimiZilla
6. ImageRecycle

Rab · #15 07-05-18

Why compress for storage and risk losing fine detail unless you are using limited cloud storage.

New external drives are relatively cheap - you can pick up a 1Tb drive for under £50 and that could hold upwards of 200,000 uncompressed jpegs.
I use a couple of 2Tb drives (mirror copies) to store my pictures and I store both the jpeg and the uncompressed raw file - average 5Mb / jpeg and 25Mb / raw file. Comfortably holding over 50,000 pictures at present with loads of space left.

For web publishing I use Irfanview to resize images before posting.