BetterJPEG 2.0.0.0 Beta  beta

Publisher's Description:

BetterJPEG allows for editing JPEG images without recompression. Lossless operations include rotation, flip, crop, red eye removal, date/text/EXIF data imprinting and more. Intuitive GUI allows for fast processing of multiple images.

Latest Changes:

• Lossless conversion to grayscale added
• Lossless brightness/color adjustment added
• JPEG noise removal added

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	spiked	Apr 2, 2006
Version:	1.6.1.0 Beta
phrentec is correct when it comes to cropping, rotation, flipping, and EXIF-related functions. There are many free apps which can perform these tasks losslessly. However, BetterJPEG also supports editing, and it ensures that only the edited region is recompressed upon save. I haven't seen such capability in any other app outside of specialized medical imaging systems. On the other hand, there really isn't a huge audience for this capability outside of such niches. Long ago, marketing people at Canon, Kodak, etc. figured out that the vast majority of typical users (home/personal) like to know that they "could" edit their photos if they wanted to, but they rarely actually do so. That's why there are so many photo printers which print directly from digital cameras and/or memory cards. Out of the rare times that such users do edit, they seldom edit a photo multiple times, and if they are concerned about quality, merely setting the JPEG option in their editing software to 100% quality will minimize single-generation degradation enough to be tolerable for non-professional use. Often, these users will want to apply global changes to exposure (brightness, contrast, gamma, etc.) or noise reduction. Those kinds of edits render BetterJPEG useless. The professional audience never uses JPEG as a source format, and thus never needs to edit it. For the few people who would find this product useful, be aware that the built-in editing capability is limited to red eye reduction. For other retouching, BetterJPEG works with your external editor of choice. Basically, it compares pre-edit and post-edit bitmaps to identify the region(s) changed. It then writes your finished JPEG by copying unchanged regions as-is, recompressing only the changes. If you happen to use Photoshop, you can get better integration for this process via BetterJPEG's Photoshop plug-in, a separate product (see their site).
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Reviewer:	uberfly	Apr 2, 2006
Version:	1.6.1.0 Beta
This is a nice app that does well what the author has set out to do. And yes, jpegcrop.exe is free but total crap. Sometimes $23 dollars is worth a much improved workspace and toolset.
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Reviewer:	PJE	Jan 3, 2006
Version:	1.5.0.0 Beta
New beta is getting better all the time. One thing I'd like to see is a toggle button on the crop toolbar to allow/disallow crops outside the image. It's a pain having to go back and forth in the preferences.
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Reviewer:	Banquo	Jul 25, 2005
Version:	1.4.2.0 Beta
Nice program for what it's meant to do. On a side note however I wish the horrible jpeg format would just die already.
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Reviewer:	PCLizard	Mar 22, 2005
Version:	1.3.9.2 Beta
I use it to cut JPEGs into pieces when designing site layouts. This way I can cut a single image into several pieces without losing quality. Nice for creating non-rectangular image areas on web sites out of JPEGs.
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