Useful Free Software
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2026 2:01 am
If you're looking for a good free image compression utility, I could recommend Caesium : https://saerasoft.com/caesium/
I've been trying it out for a bit and it seems to do a nice job to reduce image file size while still usually keeping good visual quality, so could be good for getting your artwork images you might want to post on this site to a bit under the 1MB limit, or for resizing and compressing an profile Avatar image.
When using to compress images, I'd suggest to output to a different folder location, or to use a copy of the images you want to compress (otherwise the utility will overwrite the files selected to compress, but it should give a warning message about that).
I've been trying it out for a bit and it seems to do a nice job to reduce image file size while still usually keeping good visual quality, so could be good for getting your artwork images you might want to post on this site to a bit under the 1MB limit, or for resizing and compressing an profile Avatar image.
When using to compress images, I'd suggest to output to a different folder location, or to use a copy of the images you want to compress (otherwise the utility will overwrite the files selected to compress, but it should give a warning message about that).