Here’s a feature list provided at the Balesio Web Site: That will help further reduce the file size and that is the whole point of this exercise, n’est-ce pas? The bottom line here is that if you don’t need this extra information attached to the image, let FILEminimizer remove it. However, not all digital cameras enable you to edit metadata this functionality has been available on most Nikon DSLRs since the Nikon D3 and on most new Canon cameras since the Canon EOS 7D.
Some metadata are written by the camera and some is input by the photographer and/or software after downloading to a computer. MetaData may be written into a digital photo file that will identify who owns it, copyright & contact information, what camera created the file, along with exposure information and descriptive information such as keywords about the photo, making the file searchable on the computer and/or the Internet. Here’s another convoluted description from Wikipedia particular to photographs: That may seem silly at first glance but it can be useful. It is not supported in JPEG 2000, PNG, or GIF. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data). The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG Discrete cosine transform (DCT) for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. Ya think? I’m pretty sure there must be self-imposed limitations employed, however.ĮXIF is an acronym for Exchangeable Image FileĮXIF is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. I don’t know how aggressive the resizing algorithm is since I haven’t tried it, but I can imagine that a 1 x 1 image would be smaller than 1024 x 768 image. FILEminimizer will change the size of the image if you want it to do so. The second thing I wanted to point out is at the bottom portion of the window.The site will no longer be able to find the file and all you’ll see is a blank empty box instead of the image. This can be important if you have a web site pointing to a particular image file then change its extension. The latter will keep the original format. If you choose the former, FILEminimizer will decide which format to use which is determined by the best compression results. The radio buttons (don’t ask me why they call them that) in the upper third of the window let you choose between changing the format or keeping the original format.I have highlighted a couple things I deem particularly important to consider.
If you click on the Settings Button on the Main FILEminimizer Screen, then choose the Settings for Images Tab in the window that opens, you will be brought to a screen that looks like the above image. There is one particular settings window that I thought you should pay attention to: There are several options to choose from when configuring FILEminimizer.
So, you say you want to know how to make this happen? I’ll show you the basics… FILEminimizer – Main Screen