What's new in Optimage 3.5.1
Sep 19, 2022
New in Optimage 3.5.0 (Sep 19, 2022)
- Added per-file multithreaded video compression
- Added support for converting to APNG and HEVC formats
- Added ability to create higher-quality GIFs with local palettes
- Added autosave position for Preferences window
- Fixed slow bulk file remove from table
- Fixed failing APNG optimization when scaling enabled
- Improved dynamic parallel optimization based on current system conditions
- Improved video format detection
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Optimage 3.3.1 (Jan 3, 2020)
- Fixed the issue causing a default app change for video files
- Fixed failing PDF optimization when the document contains 16-bit images (for this to work, color conversion must be disabled)
- Added support for iTunes Video files (M4V)
New in Optimage 3.3.0 (Dec 20, 2019)
- Improved UI responsiveness on large volumes of images
- Improved table scrolling performance
- Improved SVG, PDF and AV1 compression
- Added support for animated Webp and Ogg Theora
- Added static WebP to image conversion
- Extended image to video conversion and vice versa
- Consider memory pressure and energy impact in automatic parallel processing
- Fixed hang when adding a large number of files
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Optimage 3.2.1 (Oct 4, 2019)
- Skip broken PDF files
- Fixed disappearing text in PDF files with missing CID fonts
- Fixed wrong color conversion in some PDF files created for print
- Try harder not to become the default app for supported file types
New in Optimage 3.2.0 (Sep 25, 2019)
- Improved JPEG compression
- Improved file handling
- Show warning when files exist at destination or Trash is unavailable
- Switched to expanded window mode by default
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 3.1.2 (Sep 9, 2019)
- Fixed incorrect HEIC photo auto-rotation
- Fixed broken Percentage scaling
New in Optimage 3.1.1 (Aug 30, 2019)
- Fixed lossless compression for WebP lossy
New in Optimage 3.1.0 (Aug 28, 2019)
- Improved JPEG image quality and compression density
- Greatly improved compression for tagged chroma subsampled JPEG images
- Improved SVG compression
- Added experimental AV1 support
- Keep subfolder structure in the destination folder
- Added confirmation dialog to prevent accidental window closing
- Added Copy Command to copy current command line arguments to the Clipboard
- Added Max Long Edge and Max Short Edge resizing options
- Changed double click to open files with the default application
- Simplified Destination folder menu
- Fixed incorrect video resizing in some cases
- Fixed Service not appearing for some file types in Finder
- Fixed Prefix/Suffix autocompletion
- Fixed table context menu
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 3.0.0 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Added batch resizing, conversion and compression for common image and video formats including JPEG, PNG, APNG, SVG, GIF, HEIC, JPEG2000, ICO, ICNS, BMP, TIFF, RAW, MP4, WebM, HEVC and ProRes
- Added HEIC, JPEG2000, APNG, MP4 and WebM compression
- Added high-quality image and video scaling with gamma correction
- Added frame rate adjustment for GIF, APNG, MP4 and WebM
- Added lossy PNG-32 compression
- Added high-quality thumbnail generation for PDF, PSD and AI documents
- Added live table sorting and ability to reset sorting order by clicking on the first column
- Added Share menu
- Added Reveal in Finder button
- Added hidden preference to set maximum number of workers
- Significantly improved PNG, JPEG and GIF image quality, compression ratio and performance
- Improved lossy WebP image quality
- Improved optimization progress reporting
- Completely redesigned user interface
- Fixed lossy PNG compression failing when not converting to sRGB
- Fixed SVG compression for some edge cases
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 2.3.5 (Nov 9, 2018)
- Improved stability for ICO and ICNS compression
New in Optimage 2.3.3 (Nov 7, 2018)
- Improved compression density for some 8-bit images
- Fixed missing localizations in updater
- Fixed more compatibility issues in macOS 10.9
- Minor UI improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 2.3.2 (Nov 6, 2018)
- Improved command line interface
- Added a hidden setting to bypass PDF optimization in lossless mode
- Fixed About and Help not appearing due to missing localizations
- Fixed more compatibility issues in macOS 10.9
New in Optimage 2.3.1 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Fixed compatibility issue in macOS 10.9
New in Optimage 2.3.0 (Oct 18, 2018)
- Significantly improved PNG optimization speed
- Improved lossy GIF compression
- Updated SVG compressor
- Added automatic and standalone dark mode for macOS Mojave
- Switched to all-system UI colors
- Renamed Profit to Ratio table column
- Added new Saving table column
- Added context menu to table
- Added sane max width to main window
- Changed Dock badge to show total number of images
- Removed file open dialog on reopen
- Fixed broken Help styles
- Minor UI improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 2.2.0 (Sep 7, 2018)
- Significantly improved lossy JPEG compression
- Significantly improved PNG compression speed and density
- Improved lossy PNG compression
- Improved optimization speed for large GIF files
- Improved WebP compression
- Improved ICNS compression by preserving previous PNG optimizations
- Improved image quality estimation
- Implemented Grayscale to sRGB conversion
- Fixed block artifacts in low-quality JPEG images
- Fixed conversion to sRGB for some wide-gamut and untagged images
- Fixed report not updating when images removed
- Fixed images not processed on volumes without Trash
- Fixed GIF file size increase in some cases
- Ensured invalid ICC profiles are always stripped
- Removed auto-reset when adding new images
- Minor UI improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 2.1.1 (Mar 30, 2018)
- Improved lossy PNG compression
- Added fallback to lossless recompression for JPEG and GIF images
New in Optimage 2.1.0 (Mar 28, 2018)
- Added WebP support
- Implemented JPEG quantization table optimization to improve image quality
- Slightly improved PNG compression density
- Fixed 1-bit transparency flattening in some PNG images
- Fixed sRGB chunk not added to untagged images when preserving color profiles
- Improved handling of PNG images with bogus ICC profiles
- Improved font embedding and substitution in PDF files
- Made preferences fixed during optimization
- Fixed badge disappearing for new batches
- Added natural sorting for files in batches
- Added total number of bytes saved to About window
- Improved final report
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 2.0.1 (Mar 9, 2018)
- Fixed critical bug causing empty printed-to-PDF documents in some cases.
New in Optimage 2.0.0 (Mar 7, 2018)
- Added PDF format support
- Significantly improved PNG compression density and performance
- Added and updated numerous lossless PNG image reductions/li>
- Improved lossy compression of flat PNG images
- Improved lossless compression of larger PNG images
- Improved lossy JPEG compression quality, density and performance
- Improved automatic JPEG chroma subsampling
- Added option to control progressive JPEG encoding
- Added lossy GIF compression
- Updated SVG compressor
- Added support for SVG fonts
- Made SVG metadata stripping optional
- Renamed option to back up original files in Trash for clarity
- Replaced custom progress indicator with standard Dock badge
- Fixed report not updating when files removed
- Added early check for unavailable destination
- Fixed transparent title bar in High Sierra
- Added daily quota indicator
- Improved window resizing including smooth transition to detailed mode
- Improved animation quality and performance
- Lowered app rank for supported file types
- Updated app icon
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.3.1 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Fixed Show in Finder on double click
- Reduced memory footprint
New in Optimage 1.3.0 (Jul 13, 2017)
- Fixed PNG, JPEG and GIF files getting bigger in some cases
- Reverted to more balanced original JPEG tables
- Added intelligent gamma-correct chroma upsampling
- Improved speed and accuracy of JPEG color conversion
- Improved JPEG quality a little by tuning soft thresholding
- Added file moving/copying via drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste operations
- Added individual file cancelling in detailed mode
- Added an alternate action to Pause/Resume optimization (Option ⌥ click Stop Button)
- Made all actions available in main menu
- Stopped compression indicator from drawing in offscreen mode
- Improved UI responsiveness under high load
- Updated interface layouts
- Updated app icon
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.2.1 (Jun 16, 2017)
- Improved compression of some JPEG images containing partial blocks
- Added real-time compression ratio indicator
- Improved UI responsiveness for large batches
- Added system sleep prevention
- Cleaned up status messages
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.2.0 (May 17, 2017)
- Revamped visually lossless JPEG optimization for consistent quality and 2-4 times higher performance
- Improved JPEG quality estimation
- Improved grayscale PNG optimization
- Improved PNG compression (block splitting)
- Doubled optimization speed for large PNG files
- Fixed GIF files getting bigger on failures
- Improved error handling
- Fixed occasional crush on file reopening
- Fixed initial progress reporting on slow file systems
- Fixed percentage table column sorting
- Softened daily limit to finish files already started
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.1.3 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Improved PNG optimization speed, especially for large images
- Improved PNG compression ratio with better filtering
- Improved quality and performance for lossy JPEG optimizations
- Fixed random redrawing issues in table view
- Fixed an issue with double-compressed ICNS getting corrupted
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.1.2 (Feb 21, 2017)
- Improved JPEG optimization speed
- Fixed an issue with certain filenames getting skipped in folders
- Updated Optimage icon
New in Optimage 1.1.1 (Feb 15, 2017)
- Improved color management in ICNS
- Added table sorting by status
- Fixed window round corners
- Improved drag and drop experience
- Improved detailed view transitions
- Improved Preferences accessibility
- Updated Optimage icon
New in Optimage 1.1.0 (Feb 9, 2017)
- Added SVG, GIF, ICO and ICNS optimizations
- Fixed a bug when PNG files increased in size in some cases
- Improved PNG optimization speed and compression ratio
- Added options to specify output folder (absolute or relative), suffix and prefix
- Added an option to move original files to Trash
- Added an option to preserve timestamp
- Improved detailed view UI
- Minor UI improvements
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 1.0.0 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Added a detailed view with per-file stats
- Increased JPEG and PNG optimization speed
- Improved quality metrics
- Added smart chroma subsampling for more savings
- Improved compression ratio for both lossy and lossless modes
- Flattened window style
- Minor UI improvements
- Fixed a bug preventing lossless auto rotation of JPEG images
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 0.9.1 (Dec 15, 2016)
- Fixed an issue with drag-and-dropping images with capitalized extensions
- Improved progress reporting
- Rolled back final compression ratio bar
- Added a warning about file overwriting
- Minor UI improvements
- Added new sections about preferences and command line usage to Help
- Minor bug fixes
New in Optimage 0.9.0 (Dec 9, 2016)