{"id":18376,"date":"2026-04-11T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/?page_id=18376"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:02:14","slug":"da-photooptimizer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/da-photooptimizer\/","title":{"rendered":"DA-PhotoOptimizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Optimize photos. Folder by folder. Automatically.<\/em><br \/>\nModern smartphone cameras produce stunning shots \u2013 but also files that quickly eat up several megabytes per image. Anyone managing hundreds or thousands of photos across grown folder structures knows the problem: storage fills up fast, backups take forever, and sharing via email becomes a test of patience.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; color: #333;\">Download<\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #666; margin-bottom: 1.5em;\">Free freeware \u2013 available for Windows and Linux:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 1em; align-items: center;\">\n        <a href=\"\/photooptimizer\/photooptimizer.exe\"\n           style=\"display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 12px 24px; background: #0078D4; color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; transition: background 0.3s; min-width: 200px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; height: 50px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\"\n           onmouseover=\"this.style.background='#005A9E'\"\n           onmouseout=\"this.style.background='#0078D4'\"><br \/>\n            \ud83d\udcbe Windows Installer<br \/>\n        <\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"\/photooptimizer\/DA-PhotoOptimizer-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage\"\n           style=\"display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 12px 24px; background: #FCC624; color: #333; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold; transition: background 0.3s; min-width: 200px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; height: 50px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\"\n           onmouseover=\"this.style.background='#E5B020'\"\n           onmouseout=\"this.style.background='#FCC624'\"><br \/>\n            \ud83d\udc27 Linux AppImage<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #888; font-size: 0.85em; margin-top: 1em;\">\n        v1.0.0  \u00b7  No user account required  \u00b7  No telemetry\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/da-software.net\/photooptimizer\/screenshot_en_1.webp\"\n     alt=\"DA-PhotoOptimizer \u2013 Main window\"\n     style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 10px 0;\"><\/p>\n<p>DA-PhotoOptimizer recursively scans your photo collections and intelligently compresses JPEG images \u2013 according to your settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Recursive folder scan<\/strong> \u2013 process entire directory trees at once<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flexible parameters<\/strong> \u2013 freely configure maximum resolution, JPEG quality and scaling percentage<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dry-run mode<\/strong> \u2013 preview exactly what would happen without touching a single file<\/li>\n<li><strong>Presets<\/strong> \u2013 save your settings and reuse them anytime<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small images are skipped<\/strong> \u2013 nothing gets unnecessarily downscaled<\/li>\n<li><strong>Results table<\/strong> \u2013 all processed files at a glance with before\/after file sizes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/da-software.net\/photooptimizer\/size.webp\"\n     alt=\"Before\/after \u2013 reduced from 2.02 GB to 949 MB\"\n     style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 10px 0;\"><br \/>\n490 photos, 42 subfolders \u2013 reduced from <strong>2.02 GB to 949 MB<\/strong>. That&#8217;s a saving of around 53 % \u2013 with no noticeable loss in image quality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/da-software.net\/photooptimizer\/screenshot_en_2.webp\"\n     alt=\"DA-PhotoOptimizer \u2013 Results\"\n     style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 10px 0;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimize photos. Folder by folder. Automatically. Modern smartphone cameras produce stunning shots \u2013 but also files that quickly eat up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-software.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}