Do Image Compressors Really Work?

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Hello Folks!

I just happen to stumble upon a software called “Advanced JPEG Compressor”

i tried to make it work on one of my images of size 924kb and compressed it

to 108kb showing a compression of 1:21.

I couldnt see much of diffrence in the images

Here’s The Compressed One:-

[IMG=http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/1707/watchingoveryacompressed8hy.th.jpg]

The Original Image Can Be Found Here:-

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/the-3rd-eye-65372.html

So i was wondering if i should continue using the same s/w to reduce bandwidth burdens?

Also how much is the quality loss in this?

Comments needed.

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice day.

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It is quite possible to compress JPEG images - you can use IrfanView for a avriety of such compressions/conversions.

But you must realise that JPEG is a lossy format (data is lost in encoding), and A JPEG compressor would simply lose more data. A good compressor will use algorithms that result in size reduction while still maintaining (as far as possible) image quality at acceptable levels. But remember - you are losing quality.

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ACDSee is the best imageviewer/converter/compressor. Can open every vague image format out there and loads extremely fast. But it isn’t free.

Irfanview is free and all, but the compression is nowhere as good as ACDSee.

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I dont know why… but i stilll prefer IrfanView :smiley:

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I use irfan view and it works well.No need to use other softwares to compress jpg.
Gif’s can also be compressed a fair bit by reducing the no. of colours and trimming the frames.