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Advanced GIF Compressor (Free to Try, $28 to Buy, Windows)- Powerful gif images optimizer. File size reductions of up to 50 percent or often much more are possible
Advanced GIF Optimizer (Free to Try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Full-featured utility designed to easily optimize GIF graphics for your Website. Savings of up to 70% or more in file size are possible, which can considerably decrease web page download times, save on disk space and reduce bandwidth charges.
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Ashampoo SeeYa! (Free to Try, $10 to Buy, Windows)- Ashampoo SeeYa! allows you to compress images and voice to create a compact, one-file, talking slideshow.
CompressIt (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - can help you to select the most effective compression format for storing your image files! This utility will allow you to free a disk space of your computer by reducing a file size of stored images even if the images have been already compressed.
GIFCruncher Desktop (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - gives you all the power of GIFCruncher on your own Windows or Macintosh machine. Crunch as much as you want to without having to be online.
ImagesASaP!™ v2 (Free to Try, $699 to Buy, Windows) - ASP Image Compression and Manipulation Object The ImagesASaP! ASP object provides a high-level interface into advanced image manipulation and recompression technologies.
Image Broadway ® (Free to Try, $69.95 to Buy - Windows)- A World-class Image Editor, Very Easy to Use and Affordable!
Image Compression Toolbox (Free - Windows) - is a collection of routines commonly used in image compression. I've managed to put them into a single package, using which images can be compressed and decompressed.
Image Optimization SDK (Free to Try, $300 to Buy, Windows) - can be effectively used in your applications, multimedia databases, as a powerful image optimization engine for image compression, color palette tunes ups, thumbnail generation, image format conversions, export, batch processing and other functions.
ImageVice (Free to Try, $135 to Buy, Mac) - color reduction provides you the power and flexibility to produce the highest quality, most compressible indexed images. It is valuable to all Web and multimedia designers who work with GIF, PNG, BMP, and PICT formats.
Interactive Jpeg Optimizer (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - allows you to work on batches of images, visually showing you the results of compression and allowing you to tweak brightness, color and contrast.
JPEG 2000 Compressor (Free - Windows) - Using JPEG 2000 Compressor you can easily convert pictures of JPEG and BMP format to JPEG 2000 format with the quality and color characteristics specified by you. Besides you can change the picture order. The results can be saved on your computer. Try this innovative freeware to ease your work with different formats.
JPEG Compressor (Free - Windows) - Program to convert Pictures with different file types and with a different compression factor into the JPEG-format.
JPEG Cruncher (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - JCPRO desktop gives you all the power and speed you need to squeeze photos, auction images, product shots, logos, and most other images into great looking, streamlined JPEG's that speed download times by up to 90%.
The JPEG Wizard™ v2 (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - World's Most Advanced JPEG Tool Webmasters and Digital Photo Enthusiasts… create smaller, faster downloading images without compromising quality!
ProJPEG (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - ProJPEG has been the ultimate JPEG tool for Web graphics professionals for over five years, providing ease, power, control, superior image quality, and the most file size savings to improve the speed and effectiveness of Web sites.
ReaCompressor (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - Optimize
your images for the web with your own JPG, GIF, PNG settings
and see the changes in real time.
SuperGIF (Free to Try, $30 to Buy,Mac / Windows) -
is our newest application for Macintosh and Windows and
a very different kind of tool. It is the very first of
its kind, and such a simple, easy tool to use that it
is difficult to write about.
Web Image Guru (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) - Superior web graphics optimizing package that brings advanced capabilities to your favorite image editing tool. The product was developed specifically for you the Web Designer!!!
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