Ioannis, I found it in portable mode,is it real good patrida??

I would not trust downloading & using the "portable" version – it's unautorized, and Bitfender blocked the download-link to a Deceptive Site!

Balesio offers FILEminimizer Pictures for $0.00 so that they have a platform to advertise for their FILEminimizer Suite (the user gets to see a nagging pop-up reminder each time he/she opens the "... Pictures" variant). This is legitimate. Without an Internet connection (= OFF) the programme starts straight away.

Download it only from here
h**p://www.balesio.com/fileminimizerpictures/eng/index.php
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I don't have much time now but I'll let you (and any other interested party) into my personal *secret* in how I work on images, and “How to make happy & amaze friends and family members.

From the plethora of photo processing apps stored in my PC, those mostly used are Paint.NET and FILEminimizer Pictures. Say I receive a holliday picture shot by a dear person, "dear" referring to why I should bother to try to improve their photograph.

1. Open the JPG in Paint.NET (it's freeware). Save that untouched image in either BMP format or PNG.
2. Import the new file in one of the specific photo processing software, where I apply any changes.
3. If I need to do further manipulation in another programme, I save the result w/ a new name (often just adding a number)
4. In any case, when satisfied, I save my semi-final image both as BMP(/PNG) and JPG.
5. ONLY if the JPG file is too large: I resort to using FILEminimizer Pictures, and so-called Optimize in "Low / Print Compression"; even this *best* mode often goes too far, for my taste (artefacts and/or bleached out colours).
6. Is the result acceptable, then I'm done. If not, I move on to the ultimate magic trick:
7. In Paint.NET I open both the last saved BMP(/PNG) and minimized JPG, having checked the latter's weight in KB/MB.
8a. Using Paint.NET's Layers option I sandwich one image on top of the other, till the percentage of this mix seems OK.
8b. I save the newly created JPG with a quality factor (file size) well above that of that peviously minimized JPG.

Have a wondefully pleasant Sunday.

Ioannis, Thanks a lot for the details, i didn't have any problem with my antivirus for the portable version though. Have fun and thanks again.

BRIE, I could register the program with:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2myg1hdrpj5jmpj/Registratie.png?dl=0

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[ @BRIE ], the BlackBird program window is NOT resizable ( BAD BAD BAD programming ), so move your taskbar, [ Activate ] is below where you can see.

Also try changing resolution and font sizes on your display, or plug in an external display.

Programmers haven't figured out that we have different display sizes, drivers, font sizes, resolutions, and so on, and they need to put all control information in the upper left 10% of their window ...

... AND the need to make their windows resizable.

How many times have we told programmers this, and still nothing?
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TK, in my experience - irrespective of any tool we use - we cannot reduce a file to 640x480 and then resize it to 1920x480 and expect to see a perfect image.

Greg, exactly my point, so to make the claim of no quality loss is utter fantisy or even "Optimize pictures without quality lossless." which does not have any clear meaning in English.. In terms of syntax it implies "Optimise with quality loss" because it is without losslessness!

TK, I thought I was the only one noticing it.

TK,

After reading the developer's description, I took the statement to mean something different:

"...reduce the size of your photos several times without quality loss..."; i.e., shrink the data size of the file as stored without color/resolution quality loss (not the pixel dimensions).

However, as noted in quick evaluation tests posted by others, it may not always work out that way (comment #5, Tim, who did not note what kind/format of file he used for his test, though likely JPEG files).

Perhaps it works great for big/uncompressed RGB-type files?

TK, File size reduction it's talking about, that is it's whole purpose,not resizing.

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[ @TK ], the only "size" a digital image file has is,, well, "size", not pixels across and down not color depth.

BlackBird, JPEGmini and other programs can take a 4 mb FILE to 0.8 MB without changing the pixels across and down or color depth.

Many people confuse the pre-digital world of photography where the "size" of an image has real dimensions measurable with a physical ruler ...

... versus the "size" of an image in the digital world where a digital image file has no physical dimensions dimensions measurable with a physical ruler.

You and BlackBird could BOTH use some editing, then saying "image file size" not "photo size", and you using "dimensions" or "pixels across and down".

You're both wrong.
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Audiomonk, If they are talking about compressing an uncompressed TIF or BMP then the use of any lossy compression will cause detail loss... if the file is ALREADY compressed especially with a lossy compression like standard JPEG compression then it WON'T reduce the file size further using a lossless compression algorithm as lossless compression just does not compress image data very well. I'll stick with free Irfanview it may not do side by side previewing of its effects but It certainly does far more than this and, always, for free.

I notice that GAOTD team have changed the description to now read:

"With Black Bird Image Optimizer - you can reduce the size of your photos without quality loss!"

instead of as it was at the begining of the giveaway:

"With Black Bird Image Optimizer - you can reduce the size of your photos several times without quality loss!"

Unless they can clarify what the start state of the image file MUST be and how much the size is reduced by compared to a reasonable quality lossily compressed JPEG and or if they are talking about making the image web page ready which WILL require reduction in dimensions from multi-megapixel originals... the claim is still meaningless drivel in my opinion. Also for a lossless compression method one does not quantize existing digital data in the original image, you quantize averaged or interpolated data with lossy compression or when converting from analogue to digital but not when tokenising/encoding an already digital datastream like a bitmap image in a lossless manner.

It reminds me of an old addage if you can't impress them with brilliance, impress them with .... *an expletive that commonly depicts false facts*

Peter Blaise, size is a synonym for dimension in both the digital and analogue realm so Peter please don't be silly!

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/dimension

If they meant file size then they should say photos' file size, if they mean image size, whether it's in printed form or screen real-estate image size then they should use the erm... image size or in their case "size of your photos" instead of "size of your photo files compared to raw uncompressed file size.

Thanks Peter, you took the words right out of my mouth.

TK, thanks so much for clarification. I wasn't aware the description had changed. Thanks also for taking time out to craft such a well worded response.

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[ TK ], correct -- as I wrote, you both are wrong.

Still haven't tried the product, have you?

That was obvious to us in your first comment.

Most diatribes against a product come NOT from those who tried it and found it's flaws, but from those who NEVER tried it at all before barking about how bad it was ... in their own imagination.
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I use this kind of super-shrinker on jpgs for ebook image files and web page archive image files -- I am not going to ever scrutinize or print those to full page paper, I will only see them on screen in context with surrounding text.

I find it useful for automatically shrinking image file sizes, as effective as JPEGmini, but with adjustable controls if you notice a preference for output qualities, and more reliable than batch settings in Irfanview et alia.
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[ @TK ], what size is your 60 megapixel image JPEG file?

No matter the original JPEG file size, this software can automatically -- and batch -- create visually indistinguishable images stored in smaller files.

This software does not change the number of pixels across and down, nor the color depth, but claims -- and satisfies me -- to intelligently keep the visual qualities I notice and value, while reducing image file storage size.
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rob, I did work on a Win10-64 Pro.
I also read something about .NET Framework 4.0
I could register the software and also load images, alos batch.
A few examples:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/48e5bknvfmgu85s/AACjoCJSvw3un7A96EODYvOUa

rob, Hello, try reinstall software. Has been released new version where many bugs was been fixed.

And that for someone with poor color vision