There are lots of photographers who want to save space on their computers and hard drives. Let’s be honest, if you’re shooting a ton of RAW photos, you’re going to run out of hard drive space eventually. So the best thing to do at times is to use a program like JPEGMini when exporting the photographs. We’ve done reviews of the Lightroom and Capture One plugin as well as the standalone program. And now we’ve updated our reviews.
Here’s the updated text from our JPEG Mini Plugin for Capture One review. You can find the entire thing here.
Update March 2024
We’ve been using JPEGMini for several years here at the Phoblographer. For a little while, we took a break from it. However, our database and storage for the website is massive. In fact, it’s a double hundred gigabytes and we do maybe around 120GB of bandwidth in traffic on the website a day. That makes it very heavy.
Recently we started to do work around downsizing the images that we upload to the site. For the record, our reviews have several product images and at least 20 or so sample images. Sometimes, you don’t even see all of our sample photos. On top of that, we interview several photographers and upload their images to the site too. What we ended up doing is running all of the images uploaded to the website through JPEGMini and downsizing how big the images are.
For years, we uploaded images at 3,000 pixels on the long side. These days, we do somewhere around 2560 pixels on the long side. In addition to this smaller size, we also run images through the JPEGMINI plugin that Capture One offers. The results have been huge for us. At times our website would load very slowly because we were uploading more than 200MB of images to the website. But these days, we’re typically only uploading around 20MB to the website for our reviews.
If you’re looking to save file space on your hard drives, then JPEGMINI is truly the product for you.