I remember paying hundreds of dollars for a 1.4 megapixel digital camera and being blown away by the concept of digital photography. Today's digital cameras top out in the double digit megapixel range, and people are spending a lot of money to get the highest resolution possible out of their pictures.
Yet, even with all of the money spent, most of these consumers are not ending up with the best quality digital photos. That's because the most commonly used picture format, JPEG, is subject to image degradation every time you resize, crop, brighten, remove red-eye, or make any other alteration to the original. Bet you didn't know that, Mr. 12 Megapixel!
Image degradation manifests itself as rings or blocks that appear along the edges of items in your pictures. Every time you open an image in an editor, the editor uncompresses the file, makes your changes, and then recompresses it, causing further loss. The more changes you make, the worse it gets!
But there's good news. Better JPEG fixes your digital photos with absolutely no loss in image quality. Check it out - you can rotate, crop, and resize your photos, add date/time stamps, remove red eye, and more - all without sacrificing any of the clarity of the original file!
Better JPEG approaches image editing in an innovative way which does not require the entire image file to be decompressed. This is the key to preserving the impact of your most important photos, and getting the most out of your digital camera!
What's more, if you work with multiple pictures, you can apply the same modifications to all of them as a batch. Also, if you want to apply a series of edits to one or more pictures, Better JPEG lets you save the edits as a macro for run-once ease of use.
So, if you're a digital photography enthusiast who likes to tinker and adjust images to make them perfect, Better JPEG is absolutely the right weapon for your arsenal. Your pictures will never have looked better than with Better JPEG!
Review Written by Derek Lee
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- Change the orientation of your photos (rotate, flip) without loss in image quality.
- Crop photos to user-defined aspect ratios and sizes with no loss in quality.
- Correct brightness and color saturation (again, with no loss in quality).
- Add date, file information, or text to photos without affecting overall clarity.
- Remove red-eye from photos, with additional options to fine tune to perfection.
- Remove JPEG artifacts from images.
- Quickly email photos to friends and relatives.
- Process multiple photos at once in batch mode.
- Perform multiple edits at once as a macro.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows XP, 2003, Vista
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- Review what others have to say...
- “...BetterJPEG avoids re-compression loss by design when carrying out any of the edit features on JPEG images. This is accomplished by the fact that JPEG images have a number of small independent blocks of data and whichever block has not been changed need not be compressed again. Original sampling and quality are retained that way.
A host of features are supported in the application which due to the latest algorithms are able to manage least amount of losses due to compression carried out. Digital images produced by cameras and processed through this application thus can produce very optimal results. Batch processing supported by the software makes the whole process quite quick...
...Red eye removal too works such that no pixels outside the eye area get affected. Photos can be copy pasted to an external editor and brought back after processing. The interface is simple, easy to use even for amateurs...”- www.freedownloadscenter.com
- “Many moons ago, I complained that there isn't enough software out there taking full advantage of the ability to edit JPEG files without recompression artifacts. Tonight, while looking for a quick lossless crop tool, I found BetterJPEG (full demo online, $25 registration) that not only has an *excellent* lossless crop and transform tool, but can also "losslessly" (to the unaffected areas) remove red eye and add text to an existing JPEG.
There's a stand-alone version, and also a Photoshop plug-in that allows you to "re-save" a JPEG with only the deltas recompressed (great for hot pixel removal, cloning out distractions, etc.).
Very cool stuff.”- Richard Tallent, www.tallent.us
- “We researched a few dozen JPEG editing tools. BetterJPEG started up the fastest and for that we knew it was what we wanted. Why? Because we edit/crop over 200 photos each day -- so any delays result in lost time! Thank you for an excellent product!”- Daniel Esbensen, Touch Technologies, Inc. USA. (over 100 licenses)
- “BetterJPEG is good at what it does. I use it as the initial program I use having taken the pictures off my camera. I crop to 4x6 and use red eye reduction before saving copies to the same folder as the originals. I only fire up PSP9 if they need to be messed around with prior to sending to Shutterfly for printing, due to the JPEG degradation.”- Peter Elliot, www.pjelliot.com