Why Is Image Compression Important?

Image compression is important for web designers who want to create faster loading web pages which in turn will make your website more accessible to others. This image compression will also save you a lot of unnecessary bandwidth by providing high-quality image with fraction of file size.

Image compression is also important for people who attach photos to emails which will send the email more quickly, save bandwidth costs and not make the recipient of the email angry. Sending large image attachments can be considered offensive. This make people very upset because the email takes a long time to download and it uses up their precious bandwidth.

For digital camera users and people who save lots of photos on their hard drive, Image Compression is more important. By compressing image you've taken or download, you can store more images on your disk thus saving your money from purchasing bigger hard disk.

What's More Important Than Image Compression? The Quality

So, you can reduce image file size by compressing them into JPG files with lower quality. That means you have thrashed all your work just to follow the file size limitation. That's not good. But all image editing application allows you to do that mistake, what a pitty.

In contrast, Image Compressor with its Digital Eye Functionality prevent you from putting too much compression on your image. Digital Eye Functionality works much like human eyes. It automatically detects the quality and optimize the compression level until both quality and file size are optimum.

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Image Compressor, The Right Tool For Batch Compressing Image

Image Compressor 2008 provides two methods of compression. Normal and extreme method.
Normal method keeps image data as much as possible and tries to compress each pixels without sacrificing much of the quality. While extreme method manipulate your image first to gain more compression ratio while still keeping the overall image quality.
Both provides very good image quality for viewing and printing.
You may not notice the difference in the photo quality, yet the compressed JPEG file can reach only 10% of the original one.

Normal method is suitable for archiving image file where pixels originality needs to be maintained.
And extreme method is more suitable for high-compression needs, such as for uploading to website, e-mail and storing your photo in your gadgets.

Image Compressor 2008 also allows user to set the maximum file size of each photos.
This feature is needed when you want to upload your photos to websites that limits image file size, such as MySpace, Friendster, Photo.Net, ImageShack, Photobucket and many more. Some other websites like Flickr limits the file transfer bandwidth. So, if you can recompress your photos to the optimum size, you can upload more photos.

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