Optimize Your Photos4

In my business courses in college, people describe storage as the evil of evil. What does it mean? You can put it this way, when your business, say, a shoe factory produces lots of shoes. Before selling the products, you will certainly think of putting them aside in the warehouse and this behavior increases your cost and decreases your flexibility. Business always looks for the optimal to avoid these irrational costs and that’s why Just-in-Time (JIT) model was introduced.

It seems that we are getting far away from the topic. What I’m trying to say is no matter how large your HD can be, there’s a limit, don’t let those huge files take up much of your space, especially when those files can be optimized. If you have already know how to optimize the photos, you may skip this article and continue your journey to TheAkiba. If you love your huge size photos and the original quality, skip it too. If you are neither of them, you may continue reading.

When you firstly download photos from some website, say, Minitokyo, Animepaper, and especially moe, you may encouter a file of 2MB or 3MB, and when the photo is a PNG file, the size can go up to 10MB or even 20MB or more. There’re lots of software your optimize these huge photo and I’d like to bring three of them: JPEG Optimizer (commercial), ACDSee and a small tool Image Resizer (freeware from Microsoft).

JPEG Optimizer: Probably the best software I’ve tried despite it’s a little bit time consuming. You dragg the photo (or photos) to the software and change the optimize ratio, that’s done. I always use 90% for the scans I got from moe since there’s little difference between the orginal photo and the new one but much smaller.

ACDSee: Everybody knows this one, right? I’m not sure how it optimized but some friends told me that it’s more or less the same as JPEG Optimizer.

Image Resizer: Small but powerful. Just select the photos and right click on them. Choose “Resize Pictures” and choose the picture size. This is not a real optimize software but it works when you resize the photos.

How many of you optimize your photos in your HD?

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