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[@Dr. Review]
Thanks for your suggestions of other programs, free FastStone is also another worthy program, but I forget it’s unique superlatives compared to free IrfanView, though I do install it along with free IrfanView — and free Picasa – whenever I setup a computer for anyone.
Regarding editing images, not just optimizing or converting, there is also free Adobe Photoshop, which is such an industry standard for image CONTENT editing, and by now, it is uber familiar and supported with tutorials and add-ons, that I just use free adobe Photoshop for editing.
Regarding CoolUtil’s use of the word “optimise”, I see that you have absolutely no idea what they mean by it, either, hence my criticism ( I did not bring it up or introduce it, I an only responding to and reviewing what is presented by the program ).
Regarding speed, please tell us what size and format and drives and computer you have that CoolUtils Total Image Converter works fast on.
I tried converting 5 megapixel raw images from a network drive ( ~7 megaByte per second data transfer rate ) using a 2600 MHz dual processor Windows 7×64 computer with 4 GB RAM, and it took more than 2 minutes to convert one image with no preview, no preview or idea what was going to happen, no preview or idea what “optimize” was going to do …
… where free IrfanView and free Picasa each take seconds, each show me the image contents, and in same 2 minutes, each would have converted dozens of images, not just one image.
Regarding “optimize”,
— free IrfanView offers an excellent minimally intrusive implementation of JPEG algorithms that maintains more integrity in complex images than other JPEG-encoding programs by eliminating chroma color subsampling and using 1×1 blocks of pixels instead of 4×4 blocks, perhaps that’s “optimizing”?
— free IrfanView, free Picasa, free Photoshop, of course, offer “optimizing” of auto exposure and auto color and auto contrast and auto sharpening.
— free Beamer JPEGmini offers “optimization” by maintaining visual qualities while reducing file size.
— whereas CoolUtils offers to “optimize” during some conversions … and gives us absolutely no idea what “optimize” means to them or will mean to the results.
On the one hand, we each use whatever tools work for us, whatever tools we become familiar with, facile with, forgiving of, and then highly recommend to others who, sadly, don’t have our experience and therefore have a learning curve that we have forgotten.
On the other hand, I tried to report as neutrally as possible what was my honest and accurate experience of trying to understand and use CoolUtils Total Image Converter, and I failed to find anything in the user interface that reflects an understanding of ( a ) how other programs handle files or ( b ) how other programs handle digital images, I did not find it taking advantage of other programmer’s hard-wrought communication success, and I did not find it intuitive or inviting or informative — note in my prior share it’s failure to convert, with no report on why or what to do to fix the failure.
It appears to be an internal COMMAND-LINE program intended to be called by other programs, but here, it is released with a minimum user interface to make it look like a GUI graphic user interface program, but considering the sophisticated success and longevity of other programs that convert image files — free IrfanView, free Picasa, free FastStone, free Adobe Photoshop — CoolUtils obviously did not look at the competition in the arena into which they toss their program.
That’s feedback, that’s what we do here at SOS SharewareOnSale, and the vendor can take what they can use from our generously and voluntarily offered comments on our experience, and leave the rest.
For those who are not sure of the capabilities of CoolUtils Total Image Converter, here are the COMMAND LINE options — as I wrote, because the GUI graphic user interface is not very useful at revealing and controlling these:
Usage of the command line prompt is follows:
ImageConverter32.exe “<source>” “<destination>” <options>
Be sure to use quotations for any folders or file names with spaces.
Note you can use macros in the destination path:
<DATE[:format]> – current date, default format is yyyymmdd
<TIME[:format]> – current time, default format is hhmmss
For example: destination “C:\<DATE>_<TIME:hhmm>” produce file C:\20181119_0858
Options:
-Reg:off – Register program
-UnReg:off – UnRegister program
-About:off – Show About Dialog
-lang – Used language
ar – Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
cs – Czech (Czech Republic)
da – Danish (Denmark)
de – German (Germany)
es – Spanish (Spain, Traditional Sort)
fr – French (France)
it – Italian (Italy)
ja – Japanese (Japan)
ko – Korean (Korea)
nl – Dutch (Netherlands)
pt – Portuguese (Portugal)
ru – Russian (Russia)
sv – Swedish (Sweden)
zh – Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
en – English (United States)
-log – Don`t show errors. Write them to the log file
-verbosity – Log file verbosity
error – Write to log file only errors (default)
detail – Write detailed log file
-logmode – Log file mode
overwrite – Overwrite (default)
append – Append
-xmllog – XML format log file name
-list – File with files mask to convert. Simple text file, each file on new line
-Recurse:off – Include subfolders
-do – Delete originals
-kfs – Keep folder structure
-kfl:off – Keep folder level
-fo – Force overwrite existed files
-rename:off – Force rename existed files
-threads – Multi thread processing (0 – auto)
-limit – Limit converted files to count
-combine:off – Combine all files into one document (pdf, tiff)
-ds:off – Copy original date stamps to converted documents
-sort – Sort source file list
unsorted – Unsorted, natural order (default)
name – Sort by file name
date – Sort by file modification date
numbers – Sort by numbers in file name
-ext – Use custom extension for output files
-optionfile – text file with options to use, “opt=value”, one line – one option definition
-c – Convert to
PDF – convert to PDF
TIF – convert to TIF
BMP – convert to BMP
PNG – convert to PNG
JPG – convert to JPG
JPG2000 – convert to JPG2000
ICO – convert to ICO
GIF – convert to GIF
TGA – convert to TGA
PXM – convert to PXM
WebP – convert to WebP
PS – convert to PS
PCL – convert to PCL
PPTX – convert to PPTX
WebOptimize – convert to WebOptimize
AVS – convert to AVS
CIN – convert to CIN
DOT – convert to DOT
DPX – convert to DPX
FITS – convert to FITS
HDF – convert to HDF
MIFF – convert to MIFF
MTV – convert to MTV
Palm – convert to Palm
RAW – convert to RAW
PICT – convert to PICT
SGI – convert to SGI
SUN – convert to SUN
VICAR – convert to VICAR
VIFF – convert to VIFF
XBM – convert to XBM
XPM – convert to XPM
-cimt – Combine images to multipage document
none – Every image to separate file
onefile – All images to one file
folder – Separate files by folders
name – Separate files by common name part
-npr – Range you want to analyze for grouping files by name
-s – Resize to <Width>x<Height>
-o – Rotate
tr – top / right side
br – bottom / right side
bl – bottom / left side
lt – left side / top
rt – right side / top
rb – right side / bottom
lb – left side / bottom
-crop – Crop to <Left>x<Top>-<Right>x<Bottom>
-bkgnd – Color (html format) used to convert transparent image to non-transparent, e.g. png to jpeg
-cl – BMP colors
bw – black & white
gray – grayscale
16 – 16 colors
256 – 256 colors
64K – 65536 colors
true – true colors
32bit – 32bit bitmap with transparency
-pclm – PCL mode
mono – Monoschrome
gray – Grayscale
color – Color
-tc – TIFF Image Compression
U – uncompressed TIFF
L – LZW compression
R – RLE compression (packbits)
J – JPEG compression
CC – Bilevel Huffman compression (CCITT1D)
G3FAX1D – Bilevel Group 3 CCITT compression, monodimensional (G3FAX1D)
G3FAX2D – Bilevel Group 3 CCITT compression, bidimensional (G3FAX2D)
G4 – Bilevel Group 4 CCITT compression, bidimensional (G4FAX)
-tiffpi – TIFF Photometric interpretation
wz – White is zero
bz – Black is zero
rgb – RGB
pal – RGB Palette
mask – Transparent mask
cmyk – CMYK
ycbcr – YCBCR
cielab – CIELAB
-dpi – Image DPI
-tjq – TIFF JPEG Quality (1-100)
-TM – Top Margin (inches)
-LM – Left Margin (inches)
-BM – Bottom Margin (inches)
-RM – Right Margin (inches)
-po – Paper Orientation
P – Portrait
L – Landscape
-ps – Paper size
Letter – Letter
LetterSmall – LetterSmall
Tabloid – Tabloid
Ledger – Ledger
Legal – Legal
Statement – Statement
Executive – Executive
Folio – Folio
A0 – A0
A1 – A1
A2 – A2
A3 – A3
A4 – A4
A4Small – A4Small
A5 – A5
B4 – B4
B5 – B5
Quarto – Quarto
EnvC5 – Envelope C5
EnvC3 – Envelope C3
EnvC4 – Envelope C4
EnvC6 – Envelope C6
EnvB4 – Envelope B4
EnvB5 – Envelope B5
EnvB6 – Envelope B6
EnvMonarch – Envelope Monarch
Custom – Custom, you need to set paper dimensions
-pd – Custom paper size dimensions in mm <width>x<height>
-jq – JPEG Quality
-jsc – JPEG Color space
rgb – Separate RGB channels
gray – Unique intensity channel (gray levels)
ycbcr – Three channels (CCIR Recommendation 601-1)
cmyk – Four channels (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) – linear conversion
ycbcrk – Four channels (YCbCr and Black)
-autosize – The size of the document pages will be calculated automatically
-fitpage:off – Fit drawing to page
-pc – PDF file compression
F – Fastest compression
N – Normal compression
M – Maximum compression
-pvl – PDF initial page layout
sp – Single page
oc – One column
tcol – Two columns, odd-numbered pages on left
tcor – Two columns, odd-numbered pages on right
tpol – Two pages, odd-numbered pages on left
tpor – Two pages, odd-numbered pages on right
-pvm – PDF initial page mode
normal – Normal view
outlines – Show the outlines pane
thumbnails – Show the thumbnails pane
fullscreen – Show the document in full screen mode
optional – Optional content group panel visible
attachments – Attachments panel visible
-mp – PDF master (owner) password
-up – PDF user password
-perm – PDF user permissions
Print – Print
Copy – Copy
Modify – Modify
Annotation – Annotation
FormFill – FormFill
Accessibility – Accessibility
DocAssembly – DocAssembly
HighResPrint – HighResPrint
-PFXFile – PFX File for sign document
-PFXPass – The password to open the PFX file
-SignName – The name of the signature field to sign
-SignLoc – The location that the signing was done
-SignCon – The contact information of the signer
-SignRes – The reason for signing document
-PDFAuthor – PDF document author
-PDFSubject – PDF document subject
-PDFTitle – PDF document title
-PDFProducer – PDF document Producer
-pdfa:off – PDF/A compatibility mode
-pdfver – PDF document format version 1.2 – 1.6
-pdfzoom – PDF document default page zoom
default – default
fitwindow – fit to window
fitwidth – fit width
10 – 10%
25 – 25%
50 – 50%
75 – 75%
100 – 100%
150 – 150%
200 – 200%
400 – 400%
-pdflimit – Limit size of PDF to <limit>
-maxpages – Process only <pages> from multipage image file
-pci – Image compression for PDF
U – U
R – R
G4 – G4
G3 – G3
J – J
L – L
-wmt – Watermark text
-wmr – Watermark rotate angle
-wtr – Watermark transparency (0-100)
-wmf – Watermark font [name,size,color]
-wmh – Watermark horizontal position
L – Left
C – Center
R – Right
-wmv – Watermark vertical position
T – Top
C – Center
B – Bottom
-wmm – Watermark margins [left,top,right,bottom]
-wif – Watermark image file name
Have fun learning, folks.
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