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Better JPEG photo editor

Edit JPEG Photos Without Quality Loss!

Better JPEG photo editor

I remember paying hundreds of dollars for a 1.4 megapixel digital camera and being blown away by the concept of digital photography. Today's digital cameras top out in the double digit megapixel range, and people are spending a lot of money to get the highest resolution possible out of their pictures.

Yet, even with all of the money spent, most of these consumers are not ending up with the best quality digital photos. That's because the most commonly used picture format, JPEG, is subject to image degradation every time you resize, crop, brighten, remove red-eye, or make any other alteration to the original. Bet you didn't know that, Mr. 12 Megapixel!

Image degradation manifests itself as rings or blocks that appear along the edges of items in your pictures. Every time you open an image in an editor, the editor uncompresses the file, makes your changes, and then recompresses it, causing further loss. The more changes you make, the worse it gets!

But there's good news. Better JPEG fixes your digital photos with absolutely no loss in image quality. Check it out - you can rotate, crop, and resize your photos, add date/time stamps, remove red eye, and more - all without sacrificing any of the clarity of the original file!

Better JPEG approaches image editing in an innovative way which does not require the entire image file to be decompressed. This is the key to preserving the impact of your most important photos, and getting the most out of your digital camera!

What's more, if you work with multiple pictures, you can apply the same modifications to all of them as a batch. Also, if you want to apply a series of edits to one or more pictures, Better JPEG lets you save the edits as a macro for run-once ease of use.

So, if you're a digital photography enthusiast who likes to tinker and adjust images to make them perfect, Better JPEG is absolutely the right weapon for your arsenal. Your pictures will never have looked better than with Better JPEG!

Written by Derek Lee

Better JPEG photo editor lets you:

  • Change the orientation of your photos (rotate, flip) without loss in image quality.
  • Crop photos to user-defined aspect ratios and sizes with no loss in quality.
  • Correct brightness and color saturation (again, with no loss in quality).
  • Add date, file information, or text to photos without affecting overall clarity.
  • Remove red-eye from photos, with additional options to fine tune to perfection.
  • Remove JPEG artifacts from images.
  • Quickly email photos to friends and relatives.
  • Process multiple photos at once in batch mode.
  • Perform multiple edits at once as a macro.

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Who Needs Better JPEG photo editor?
You do if you've ever:

  • Had a digital picture that was made worse, not better, by retouching software.
  • Wanted to edit multiple photos in batch.
  • Had a need to apply the same series of edits (brighten, crop, color correct, for example) to multiple photos, and wished that you could do it automatically.
  • Thought that you should be getting better photos out of your digital camera.

Reviews & Testimonials:

  • “...BetterJPEG avoids re-compression loss by design when carrying out any of the edit features on JPEG images. This is accomplished by the fact that JPEG images have a number of small independent blocks of data and whichever block has not been changed need not be compressed again. Original sampling and quality are retained that way.

    A host of features are supported in the application which due to the latest algorithms are able to manage least amount of losses due to compression carried out. Digital images produced by cameras and processed through this application thus can produce very optimal results. Batch processing supported by the software makes the whole process quite quick...

    ...Red eye removal too works such that no pixels outside the eye area get affected. Photos can be copy pasted to an external editor and brought back after processing. The interface is simple, easy to use even for amateurs...”- www.freedownloadscenter.com
  • “Many moons ago, I complained that there isn't enough software out there taking full advantage of the ability to edit JPEG files without recompression artifacts. Tonight, while looking for a quick lossless crop tool, I found BetterJPEG (full demo online, $25 registration) that not only has an *excellent* lossless crop and transform tool, but can also "losslessly" (to the unaffected areas) remove red eye and add text to an existing JPEG.

    There's a stand-alone version, and also a Photoshop plug-in that allows you to "re-save" a JPEG with only the deltas recompressed (great for hot pixel removal, cloning out distractions, etc.).

    Very cool stuff.”- Richard Tallent, www.tallent.us
  • “We researched a few dozen JPEG editing tools. BetterJPEG started up the fastest and for that we knew it was what we wanted. Why? Because we edit/crop over 200 photos each day -- so any delays result in lost time! Thank you for an excellent product!”- Daniel Esbensen, Touch Technologies, Inc. USA. (over 100 licenses)
  • “BetterJPEG is good at what it does. I use it as the initial program I use having taken the pictures off my camera. I crop to 4x6 and use red eye reduction before saving copies to the same folder as the originals. I only fire up PSP9 if they need to be messed around with prior to sending to Shutterfly for printing, due to the JPEG degradation.”- Peter Elliot, www.pjelliot.com

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6 Comments for Better JPEG photo editor

  • Nov 5 2008 8:49am
    David Gilmour (Shooting Star)
    I have been using BetterJPEG PhotoShop plug-in for months, and it has earned an important place in my image editing toolbox. The standalone product being promoted here seems to offer a few extra features and benefits, and at this price I plan to buy it too.

    I work in 16-bit as much as possible, but sometimes after I commit the final image to an 8-bit JPEG, for instance when preparing a series of images for upload to an album printer, I will notice a detail that I overlooked in an image, which requires touching up. Rather than going back to the Photoshop version I created during editing and then through my production sequence again, I just make the correction directly to the JPEG, using BetterJPEG to open and close the file. This saves me precious time while avoiding the perilous image degradation which normally occurs when re-saving a JPEG.
  • Nov 12 2008 1:45pm
    adrian williams (Visitor)
    The main features I use I would look for are - resizing, rotating, cropping and selection.

    Resizing is covered in this software
    Cropping - also good
    Rotating - very limited - 90 degrees or 180 only - can't find any way in rotating an image, say 5 degrees, or align to a mark
    Selection - box or fixed sized rectangular marquee only - no magic wand or masking options.

    So, for me, it would satisfy resizing for web development but can't do a simple task like rotating an image I've scanned that's slightly rotated. It wouldn't, for example, allow me to create a library of scanned dvd discs. I'd scan, align then select the image using a circular marquee and then save the final edited image. I can't get betterjpg to do any of this.

    Please tell me I've missed something, the rotation flexibility is a must-have for me. An improved range of selection would also be ideal.
  • Nov 12 2008 2:09pm
    Alex Molodozhenov (BetterJPEG Team Vendor)
    Adrian, Currently BetterJPEG application is mostly focused on JPEG operations that can be done without full re-compression, such as 90 degree rotation, crop, canvas expansion, brightness, color adjustment, local changes such as date stamp or red eye removal. As the application evolves it gained some additional features going beyond the scope of lossless operations, e.g. resizeor option for a lossy rotation. Free angle rotation is not there yet but we are planning on adding it in coming versions.
  • Nov 12 2008 2:19pm
    adrian williams (Visitor)
    Thanks Alex, The software certianly works in the areas you highlight - The opportunity of free-angle rotating would enhace the software even more. I probably will buy it.
    What is your upgrade policy with regards to existing customers?
  • Nov 12 2008 2:43pm
    Alex Molodozhenov (BetterJPEG Team Vendor)
    Adrian, All minor upgrades (same first version number) are free, major upgrades are currently offered with 50% discount. Major upgrades are rare, we only had it once since 2004, and it happened recently (July 2008), so upgrades will be free for quite a while now.
  • Nov 12 2008 5:14pm
    adrian williams (Visitor)
    For the brits - don't order it in pounds - order it in dollars. I don't know what conversion rate is being used but you'll end up paying about £2 more !

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