This feature is turned off by default so be sure to turn it on as it could be an important tool, especially if you don’t have a good backup strategy in place! Auto Image Optimisation The option to preserve the original image should also be (in my opinion) turned on so as to make sure you can always start again with your original image if needed. It is advisable to keep this high unless needed, for example, under certain use cases such as saving images which will be shared over the internet (which should be made with smaller file sizes) or in cases where low disk space is an issue this can be set to a lower number. The image quality slider determines the level of detail any edited image will be saved with (the higher the number the more quality retained in the final saved image). The general settings page can be opened from the settings menu found at the top of the screen, from this page we can set all of the options affecting the application as a whole.Ī couple of important settings to take notice of here are the image quality slider level and the option to preserve the original image file during a save of a new version. There is not too much to mention about the overall application settings, especially given that most of the editing tools and features within the application have their own mini-settings menu available whilst they are in use. Once clicked this will auto expand the image gallery preview of all images in current folder (this can also be seen by shrinking the main image panel manually should you wish to keep this gallery view permanently in sight). This “quick access” toolbar can be customised to hold you most commonly accessed tools and functionality but by default will house the undo, undo all, rotate and optimise all feature shortcuts.įinally, whilst hidden away by default, we can see all photos in the currently selected folder in a gallery view by clicking on the expand button found at the bottom right of the main image panel. Moving down to the bottom part of the screen we find another toolbar just below the main image panel itself. Simply slide the slider across to see more or less of the preview like below. Once an effect has been applied to an image for preview (before being permanently applied) Photo Optimizer offers a fantastic “slider” tool which allows you to easily compare the original version and the new version with the provisional optimisation. this effect is not permanent at this stage and can easily be removed by clicking on the same tool / feature heading again or permanently applied to the image by clicking “apply” which is next to each tool. Once in the required toolbox clicking on any of the tools / effects will cause that tool (in most cases) to automatically create a preview of what it does to the currently selected image. The main toolbox of tools can be found on the right of the screen with a menu just above used for categorising these tools and making the one you need easy to find (as is shown above). Personally, after testing the application over several days I actually quite like the interface Ashampoo has built. The user interface is an important consideration when choosing a photo editing tool, this essentially is the measure of how quick and easy you can find the features you need and make any necessary adjustments to your photos. Once installed a restart will be requested by the application to complete the install.Īfter the restart has completed the software will be fully installed and ready to use, upon first opening the software you will be asked to enter a licence code or select to evaluate the software over a period of 10 days (30 if you decide to register with Ashampoo).įinally, with the registration out of the way the software will begin by greeting you with a prompt asking you to start by dragging and dropping in a photo to be worked on or to select a folder containing multiple images to work on. Once downloaded and set running the Ashampoo installer will take care of most of the work for you, the option is there to install in a different location to the default should you so wish but if you like to stay with the default setting this really is a painless process. At just over 100MB the download is also very reasonably sized for such a feature packed application meaning the initial download is also very easy to complete. As with all Ashampoo software installing Photo Optimizer 8 was both quick and easy and I had the application running within just a couple of minutes.
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