How to reduce image size without compromising on quality
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Camera makers seek to hit the consciousness of customers increasingly high numbers of megapixels, in resulting in even simple little dish soap can now take pictures with a resolution suitable for printing advertising posters. Hard drive manufacturers gleefully picked up this initiative and offer to buy more and more volume drives for storing your digital photo archives. Everyone is happy and satisfied, just do not quite understand why all this is necessary - in fact most of the photos will never be printed and will be released only on the monitor screen.
A small free program RIOT solves the problem of lack of space or preparing images for publication on the network by radical optimization. And it does so without compromising on quality.
After downloading, install and run the program in front of us see the main window RIOT. It is enough to just a glance, to understand the operation of the program. Located in the center divided into two parts, the window visual comparison of optimization results, underneath there is a small panel with compression options. Pay attention to the file size of the original and the optimized image. These figures will not surprise you time at full visual conformity, RIOT will reduce the file size of two, three or more times!
Bottom options panel is divided into three tabs in accordance with the possibility of saving formats. Here you can select a thinner compression options, including compression levels, metadata cleanup, and even simple operations brightness change, contrast, and so on.
Of course, the piece image optimization can quickly get bored with you and this case in RIOT has a handy tool for batch image conversion. program of work differs extreme efficiency and speed, and if you are used to working with images in your favorite GIMP, IrfanView or XnView, you can set RIOT as a plugin for these programs.
Free simple program RIOT It can be useful for users who want to get rid of excess weight in your photo collection and is recommended for mandatory use by all who post their pictures on the Internet.
RIOT (Windows)