JPEG Tools and Software

JPEGCrops is free software to help you quickly rotate and crop multiple photos to standard photo sizes without loss of quality.

Edit JPEG without recompression loss - BetterJPEG is a photo editor that lets you perform common photo manipulations, but preserves image quality by only recompressing the parts of the image that have changed when saving the image back to the JPEG format.

"Remove unnecessary parts of JPEG files and keep the quality of JPEG image files... reduce your jpeg image file size by removing extra information inside the JPEG images."

"DropJPEG is a simple program that converts images dropped on its icon into JPEG. DropJPEG is compatible with all Quicktime readable images, including PDF screenshots. DropJPEG is freeware and requires Mac OS 10.2 or higher."

Read and write to the JPEG 2000 file format from Photoshop with this ftee plug-in.

A utility for converting any picture to JPEG 2000 using QuickTime.

Recover images damaged by low-quality JPEG compression. Remove "JPEG artifacts" and "blotchy look" from over-compressed JPEG images. Freeware

"JPEG Imager is a simple and handy interactive JPEG image compressor. Its main function is to create optimized by size and quality JPEG files... with JPEG Imager you can change image size, crop edges, change brightenss and contrast, tune color balance, increase sharpness, etc." US$25

Free software for lossless cropping and rotation of JPEG files.

"JPGAvi is used to create a video file from either a series or a single bitmap file." US$25

Creates a video file from a series of JPG files. Files can be from any source, as long as they are all the same size. Freeware.

Embed audio directly into JPEG images. "With SoundPix Plus you can record or import greetings, background sounds, captions and comments, making them an integral part of each of your digital images - which you can then easily share with others." US$40.

Topaz DeJPEG is a free Photoshop plug-in that removes JPEG compression effects in images. It also contains a Sharpen function.

"UnJpeg is a unique tool that can restore images that have been compressed into the JPEG file format." US$150