When it comes to sharing images of our last trip, our newborn son, our pet or just any other reason we want to celebrate, the first thing we should always do is reduce the space they occupy, so that when it comes to sharing it, the process is as fast as possible.
Preview allows us to natively compress the files in JPEG format, although sometimes the result we receive in return not the desired one. In the Mac App Store we can find applications that promise to reduce the size of the file without losing quality. JPEG Jackal is one of them.
JPEG Jackal is a small application that allows us to quickly and easily reduce the size of our favorite photos much less than half, so that when sharing them the process is much faster. All this, with hardly losing the quality of the photograph thanks to the compression algorithm it uses.
The operation of the application is very simple, since we only have to drag the images to the application, folders even, and establish if we want to maintain the same quality or apply the compression algorithm that reduces the size of the final file to practically nothing.
When carrying out the process, we can overwrite photos or set a different output directory in order to keep the original images safe. Once the work is finished, the application will show us the new size of all the photographs that have been converted together with the percentage of compression that has been carried out.
JPEG Jackal is an application that has a price in the Mac App Store of 2,29 euros. It requires OS X 10.10 or later and is optimized to work with 64-bit processors, so we can continue using it in the next versions of Mac. Without any problem.
