#Jpegmini pro photo vs full size

#Jpegmini pro photo vs full size

The file size was 37.6mb for the full size JPEG. This was an export from Lightroom through Photoshop to apply a Digimarc invisible watermark. I used the app as a standalone for my first test. I tried the evaluation download that you can get at their website to see how it would work. If you want to post or send full sized JPEGs to people, this may be a solution for you. They do a really good job too, because they can make the file much smaller without causing a serious compromise in quality. JPEGmini brings their own compression algorithm on top of the core JPEG compression. That's a very large file, and moving lots of them around takes time and money. I have been doing some testing on Canon's EOS-M3 and the native RAW files are running about 40mb per, so the full size JPEG exports after editing were coming in around 37mb.

The challenge comes when you don't want to downsize or set a lower quality level in your JPEG exports because the files are going to be rather large. JPEG as we know is a destructive compression mechanism, but due to small image size and low resolution on the web, regular JPEG images can still look completely awesome on your display or your smartphone. It also runs 8x faster and can handle images up to 60 megapixels whereas the Diet version can only deal with images up to 28 megapixels. JPEG mini Pro does everything the regular version does (that I will call Diet based on the logo), plus adds the ability to run as an extension in Photoshop and a plugin in Lightroom.