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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
JPEG Wizard
Vendor: Pegasus Imaging Corporation
Purpose: For creating smaller, faster downloading images with good visual quality
Description
Aimed at Webmasters and photo enthusiasts, JPEG Wizard lets you create smaller, faster
downloading images without compromising quality. The vendor claims it can obtain
between 20% and 70% more compression than other utilities, while keeping a comparable
quality image.
JPEG Wizard’s key feature is that it does not introduce generational loss with each compression.
In other words, you can recompress without recompression loss. It allows you to
compress different regions at different settings, with the option (in a higher priced edition)
to do this in batch mode. Other features include cropping, appending, creating thumbnails,
color adjusting, rotating, watermarking, and adding image comments and text.
Still many other features include automatic red-eye removal, lossless contrast/brightness/
color/tint adjustment, email facilities, and Photo CD support.
Comments
If you are looking for a way of handling lots of JPEGs efficiently, especially for uploading
to the Web, this program could be ideal. It has excellent batch processing features
and performs quite elaborate operations on hundreds of pictures automatically. Another
point in its favor is its reliable handling of Exif data, easily lost by some applications.
Version: JPEG Wizard 2.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, and XP
RAM: 128MB (more for batch handling)
Supported file formats: JPEG
Price level: Without batch facility $30, with batch $70 (both approx.)
Address: Pegasus Imaging Corporation, 4001 N. Riverside Drive, Tampa, FL 33603, United States
www.pegasusimaging.com
NEFView
Vendor: SoftWhile
Purpose: Lets you view thumbnail images of NEF and JPEG 2000 files in Windows
Description
NEFView is a small utility that allows you to view thumbnail images of Nikon
Electronic Image Format (NEF) and JPEG 2000 files automatically within Windows.
Installation is a three-click process.