For about half an hour, using words I didn’t know in ways I didn’t understand, Eli tried to explain precisely how JPEGmini does what it does until he no doubt noticed the lights behind my eyes went out. Last year at PPE, I sat down with Eli Lubitch, previous VP at Kodak and R&D at Scitex, an image scientist, and now President of BEAMR which makes JPEGmini – a bit of a brainbox really. For those who don’t live inside Lightroom all the time, or perhaps you use Capture One, or maybe you don’t do bulk images and you work largely with PS, it’s a Godsend. Well, now, as of today they’ve released a new addition to the Pro package, a Photoshop Extension, and it’s lovely. However, since it’s in LR, if you’re working on a TIFF file or RAW file you can still export it as JPEG and it will convert and optimize.
#Jpegmini pro photo optimization software software#
The Pro version, however, has an indispensable tool in the form of a Lightroom plug-in, so anytime you export your images from LR as JPEGs it runs the software for you, and it supports JPEG files up to 60MB fast and without fuss. You drag photos in, it spits them back out significantly slimmer. The original is a stand-alone desktop application and works as easy as drag and drop. The software comes in 3 varieties: JPEGmini, JPEGmini Pro, and JPEGmini Server. If it were a Japanese worker, it would surely be prone to Karōshi (death by overwork). Like a worker ant, it just falls into line with your workflow and gets on with the job with a manner of efficiency not typically found outside a Japanese car factory. That’s all it does, and it does it without much fanfare.
For those of you who don’t know, JPEGmini is, at its heart, a program that compresses your JPEG files to the utmost point before losing any perceivable quality.
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