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Cost of jpegmini3/5/2023 It’s a simple little app that cost about 250 Swedish kronor or 30 US dollars. When providing high-resolution images to our clients, or uploading images to this website, I often extract JPEG images between 70-85 quality. So on the recommendation of another photographer I decided to give a look to JPEGmini. Having downloaded my entire uploads directory and needing to compress everything uploaded to the site up until 2017 I needed something that was going to go faster. Normally when I am prepping a blog post I toss all the pictures I want to compress into the app and then walk away from the computer for 15-20 minutes and let it do it’s thing. However, due to the potential costs of users accessing unplanned dynamic URLs with JPEGmini quality directives, image transformation add-on URLs are. It normally takes a few minutes to do one picture. The only problem with it is that it is incredibly slow. This has been pretty good it reduces image sizes by about 50% to 60% without any visible loss in quality. Now about a year ago I started using a beta version of a free Mac app called ImageOptim with the Google Guetzli compression. There’s a 30 discount for JPEGmini 2 owners, but I can’t help but have expected at least 50 given the small range of features introduced with. So I downloaded the entire uploads folder from the blog to my computer and set about compressing the original files. 59USD for the standalone JPEGmini app 89USD for the standalone JPEGmini app and Adobe plugins While version 3 has just been released, it’s a very small jump from version 2’s offerings. The result was hundreds of JPEG files that were anywhere from 2MB to 4MB in size. I use pretty large images on the site and made the mistake of uploading a lot of them without running them through any compression. I had been going through the boring task of compressing old images that I posted on the blog. I recently got put on to an little app called JPEGmini and felt it was worth mentioning it on the blog.
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