Pegasus Imaging's JPEG Wizard

JPEG Wizard!

Pegasus Imaging has been developing high quality JPG compression programs for some time now and has just released their JPEG Wizard utility for Windows. It allows you to apply JPG compression to different regions of images so certain parts remain razor sharp while the rest of it gets compressed. This is a novel approach for optimizing your image file sizes for email or web use.

Pegasus has an Online JPG Wizard that demonstrates its ability to shrink and/or edit your JPEG images. Now you can have this power available locally on your own computer by downloading their new program. Here's a quick list of JPEG Wizard features:

  • DOWNLOAD SPEED- Reduce your file sizes 30-70% without visual loss.
  • LESS BLOCKY ARTIFACTS - Published test results show the Pegasus' JPEG implementation is superior to many of the commonly used JPEG implementations.
  • ADD BANNERS AND TRANSPARENT WATERMARKS- Add banners, text and watermarks for copyright protection and promotion!
  • RECOMPRESSION WITHOUT LOSS! - Recompress your JPEG files again and again without introducing generational image loss normally associated with recompressing JPEG files!
  • MERGE IMAGES - The JPEG Wizard 1.0 supports the ability to seamlessly merge multiple images into one utilizing both text and image while maintaining a very small file size.
  • REGIONALLY OPTIMIZE YOUR COMPRESSION
  • THUMBNAIL ON THE FLY - Create high quality thumbnail images as you compress your images individually or in batch mode.
  • ADJUST IMAGE COLORS - Adjust JPEG hue, tint, brightness and contrast without introducing a recompression artifact in the image.
  • PASSWORD PROTECTION - Utilizing the PIC format in the JPEG Wizard 1.0 you can secure your images with passwords.
  • BATCH IT! - The advanced batch features in the JPEG Wizard can save you hours of time regionally compressing, overall compressing, combining images, cropping, appending, creating thumbnails, color adjusting, rotating, watermarking, adding image comments and adding text to a series of images.

Read a comprehensive review of JPEG Wizard at the FRCN's web site - click on the Digital Imaging link after you get there.