Here’s an interesting little application for editing your photos. BetterJPEG allows you to work with your JPEG files without losing any data or quality due to image compression. As a result, you won’t see any image artefacts and the final file will have the very same quality as the original one.

The JPEG image format is inherently lossy. Because of this, each edit and subsequent recompression of JPEG photos in general purpose image editors, such as Adobe Photoshop, results in a progressive degradation of image quality. Fortunately there is, in most cases, a way to avoid this unnecessary recompression. If all you need is to quickly process a group of JPEG photos from your latest vacation - rotate, crop, remove red-eye, correct color and brightness, imprint date or comment - you do not need to compromise on quality of photo editing. Better JPEG is a batch JPEG photo editor that can do all of this editing without loss of image quality.

Main features:

Rotate, Flip photos (lossless)
Crop photos (lossless) - predefined and user-defined aspect ratios and sizes, composition guidelines
Add Margins to your photos (lossless)
Correct Brightness (lossless)
Correct Color (lossless)
Add Date / EXIF Info / Text to photos (lossless) - adjustable position, font, size, color, background, language, format, etc.
Remove Red Eyes from photos (lossless) - anti-aliasing, adjustable size, sensitivity, darkening
Copy/Paste to and from an external editor for local retouching without full recompression (lossless)
Resize photos
Convert to Black & White (Grayscale) (lossless)
Remove JPEG artifacts from photos
E-mail photos to friends and relatives
Batch process photos
Combine actions (Macro)
Undo/Redo editing
Preserve Metadata
Optimize JPEG Compression

Size: 1.27 MB

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