I don't know if it's because I'm getting old, but I find myself using more and more cloud tools. To the point where I'm extremely lazy about downloading and installing programs that have web alternatives. Of course, the constant improvement in connection speeds has made the transition almost imperceptible.
And here we are: recently I had to reduce the weight of a bunch of images, optimize them as much as possible. Doing it with Paint.Net or similar software, one by one, seemed like too much work. Luckily, I found a simple and quick solution to achieve the same result without all that effort. That solution is called PhotoSize.
How to reduce the weight of your photos
The process is quite simple. First, you upload the images to optimize into the application. You can do this by dragging them to the active rectangle or opening them from the tool. The service supports the most common formats (JPG, TIF, PNG, PSD, BMP, GIF, JP2, PICT, JPC, PCX, and SGI) and accepts images up to 10 MB in weight.
Once the images are loaded, you'll have the chance to apply some filters to them. To apply these filters, you need to click on the image to edit and go to the tab that says "STEP 2". There are three types of filters in PhotoSize. Transform (Crop, Resize and Rotate), Touch-Up (Auto Contrast, Brightness, Saturation, Noise Reduction, etc.) and Effects (Black and White, Negative, Sepia, etc.). After selecting a filter, you should click Apply to, well, apply it. To select another image, just go back to STEP 1 and repeat at will until you have all the images retouched, if that's what you want.
To download the images, just go to the tab that says "STEP 3" and select the output format, as well as the quality you want. The higher the quality, the heavier they'll be. In my case, the total weight of the four images chosen for the demonstration was 12.2 MB. After optimizing them, the total weight was reduced to 5.14 MB (using the "Good Quality" option), without any perceptible loss of quality to the human eye. Super effective!
Before downloading, you also get the option to rename all the files in batch, which can always be useful. Finally, you can download the images one by one or all together by clicking on the "ALL PHOTOS" button. With this last option, the service will give you a nice .zip file with all the uploaded and optimized images. In short, as I already said: a quick, simple and convenient way to reduce the weight of images in batch.
Official Site: PhotoSize
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