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RIOT – The Best Image Optimizer

27 June, 2009

Photos are a powerful way to share your precious moments and communicate with your friends, have you ever wondered if you could make the size of the photo smaller without compromising much noticeable quality loss?

Introducing RIOT, RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool) is a revolutionary new free application which revolutionizes the way you resize images.

If your answer is ‘Yes’ for any of the following questions then RIOT is for you.

• Are you a person who shares a lot of photos with your friends and family via messaging programs?
• Need a better way to compress your images for easy transfer?
• Need to have smaller image sizes without noticing much change to put in your website?
• Do you like to see the image quality changes in real-time with file size changes?

RIOT has the following  KEY features:

• open multiple graphic file formats by looking first at the magic number (it does not need file extension to recognize format)including support for uncommon images types (up to 128 BPP, integer and floating point. EX: hdr images, 16 bit grayscale, etc). Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images
• save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface
• works in dual view: (original – optimized image) or single view (optimized image). Automatic preview of resulting image
• in-place compare function (alternatively display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes)
• compress files to desired file size threshold
• fast processing (all is done in memory); see instant results including resulting file size
• decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles). Unsupported metadata is removed
• transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them)
• common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip
• resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others)
• the compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products.

Future Feature List:

• batch processing multiple images
• Adobe Photoshop Filter support (8BF) – add GML Matting plug-in for object extraction.
• twain scanner support
• basic image processing (brightness, contrast, etc)
• jpeg smoothening
• PNG compression optimizations (I need time for this)
• define transparent regions (with variable transparency)
• crop function
• overlay image watermark

My Opinion

Well this is one awesome free MUST-HAVE utility to depend on especially for photo enthusiasts and bloggers. Most image resizing softwares support only JPEG but this supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and other major image formats. And the new real-time image quality preview is superb. One thing i like to see very soon is batch processing. I really need batch processing (like the ability to resize images inside a folder). Personally I love this app and with a file size of 944 KB it works wonders.

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