Yesterday I went into my spam box folder which is always full of a lot of spam. I came across a legitimate email from Christoph Schmid telling me about a new software called FILEminimizer which can reduce the size of the image without losing quality. (Sometimes it’s bad to have spam filter set to high 🙂 )
I decided to give it a try and then write whatever I felt about it. The first thing that impressed me was the graphical user interface. It’s quite simple and self explanatory. The only confusion was about Pack and Go button which is used to compress an image and then send via email. In my opinion, the button could have been named as Compress & Email which explain a lot more than Pack and Go. Otherwise everything is organized sequentially. So the GUI guides me what to do next.
In fact there are only two major actions, Open the files that we want to manipulate and then Optimize the files. We can add multiple files to simultaneous compression. We can also drag and drop the files to the FILEminimizer window. The software is intelligent enough to sort out which are images and which are not. So when we drag a file that is not supported, it is ignored and not added to the list of added files. We can also right click a picture and select FILEminimizer 2.x to add the image to the compression list.
The search files feature is impressive enough to catch the eyes. It’s size filter, file filter and date filter are good enough to find the files from the computer.
My only concern about the search feature is that although it was fast and found almost all the files, it took about 5 minutes to scan my hard drive because of large size but it was taking 50% processor usage. Since I have a Core 2 Duo processor, it means that it was taking 100% of one processor unit.
In this article, all the images given are optimized with FILEminimizer and it has compressed the images to about 70% of the original size, hence, saving about 30% of image bandwidth. Another thing I noticed is that when I insert an image optimized by another software I used before in Windows Live Writer (I use Windows Live Writer to write and publish my articles on Technize) it used to be invisible. Only the border dimensions were visible which told me that the image had been inserted. The compression would also come with the loss of quality. But with FILEminimizer, my initial experience is that it takes care of the image quality while compressing an image.
A good news is that FILEminimizer team is giving away 50 free licenses to Technize readers. The only thing you have to do is to comment about FILEminimizer below in the comments section. After we get enough participants, we’ll distribute the licenses to the lucky winners. The winners will be selected randomly from the comments. Remember, there are 50 licenses and you need to comment as soon as possible to get your free copy of FILEminimizer 🙂
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72 responses to “Reduce/Compress Image Size Without Losing Quality”
interesting apps. would like to have one free license:)
Seems interesting.
Wanna give it a try 😀
Sounds interesting. I have a lot of photos and this could really help with disk space issues.
Really good and useful program.
Sounds great. I would also love a licence thanks.
How do you verify image quality is not effected?
i’ve been looking for a software just like this! thanks!!! hope it really works..
What a fantastic little tool. I just installed the trial version on Windows 7 64 bit and it works great! There’s even a context menu item so you can launch it by just right clicking on the picture. I’d love a free license!
Squirly
hi its a fantastic software. i loved it..
Nice App!!!!
it works far beyond a common image editor! thank for sharing!
This looks like a useful software which came after a longtime. Previously I’ve used many image resizing tools but this one looks far more better. I’d be using it from now on….
very interesting, useful for web developer offcourse…
Is the purpose here to “compress – email – decompress” at the other end, or permanently compress to a smaller file size? What are the supported image formats? Also, can we change the pixel size of the image?
Hello ! This software is an excelent aplication! Compression is almost 100% without losing cuality !
Thank you TECHNIZE.COM !!!!!!
Would like to try it for my zillion photo collections over the years.
It will save my tiny HDD storage which I can’t afford to get a bigger one and thanks for this live saver application.
I have tons of photos, saved me tons of space on my HD. Thanks
Looks pretty darn awesome. Would be useful to me.
Nice app. Would help a lot with minimizing space on my tiny Eee SSD
Having an utility that would be able to compress pictures without losing their quality are the miracle in photography world. It saved more time, and precious pix load faster everytime I’m viewing them. Thank you FILEminimizer!
Great software !
Good looking.
Would love to have a licence for this program, thanks!
Great! Just what I need, mucg thanks!
Wow, what a surprise Sanix, the right tool in right time for me. I was searching those days for such applications, because my best friend had problems uploading images like three or four MB to facebook 🙂
I just tried FILEminimizer and it converted a 3.5MB jpeg image into just 140kB still with a high quality. Now I’ll be happy to Now I will be happy to send a nice gift as FILEminimizer is.
Now I’m looking for a license for it! 🙂
cool application
I would like to get a free lisence. I need it because I have to upload many photos for my family and also save hard disk space. Hope I get it! 😀
The software is really cool.
Its an amazing software!Id love to have a license!Thanks!
Cool!!! Now I can easily resize and upload images to my blog without having any space hurdle!! 😀
I would love this program. I just came across this site a few days ago and it’s brilliant.
I have downloaded the trail version over at http://www.balesio.com/downloads/fm/FILEminimizerPictures-Setup.exe and will test it out.
If really would like to give this a try. I still have one I would love to have a license. Thanks in Advance.
Not sure if it works with RAW format. If works then that would save me 1.2gb of space ha ha
@Jason
What do you mean by RAW format?
I am tasked with taking photographs for every functions at my organisation and it uses valueable space on my PC. Love to have the license so that I can burn more picts in one CD.
i would like to check it out! send me license plzzzzzz!
its fantastic to here about… it wud save a hell lot of space for me currently used as idle if this software works… Need the licence key asap!!
Hi. I also need this software license key for personal use. Kindly arrange to send me the free license for the same and oblige.
That sounds amazing! Would love to try it.
Sound great, would like a test license
wow! I was just looking for something like this! I hope I could get the free license.. please??
that’s an interesting software!
very helpful for web designers! i reducing the image size while keeping the quality can be a big headache -_-
I’d love to try it out if it’s still possible?
I think am too late XD
but wth there is no harm in trying right? =P
this is pretty cool! seeing as there are only 45 echo items, there havent been 50 yet so could i get a license too please?
50 licenses and 46 comments – so I think I can have one. Can you please send me the license?
sounds interesting to Facebook users?
50 licenses and 47 comments – so I think I can have one, or too good to be true? Can you please send me the license?
thank you. its great
I’m number 50!
V.good