 Today, I would like to take a look at the fastest way to export and minify your images from Lightroom. I'm using the latest version of Lightroom. I'm using JPEG Mini as a plugin. I'm also testing it as a standalone application and I'm testing a new program called Spacesaver, which could also be a nice option to export your images. What I would like to do is select roughly 70 images, and export them first using JPEG plus minification and the Lightroom plugin from JPEG Mini. And see how long it takes. For that, we're going to use a stopwatch application. So I'll start the stopwatch. I'll say export and mini. We're using an AMD Ryzen 9 9300X, which is a very fast processor, especially for file manipulation. There's 32 gigs of RAM in here. We're now down to, let's say, two minutes and we're about, let's say, 30% there. And what you'll see if you look at the export directory, you'll see all the files being in here now. So Lightroom is pretty much finished with the export and it's now minifying. You'll see one by one, you'll see the images being swapped out for the minified version. Now let's wait. So it took us about three minutes and 45 seconds to both export and minify the files. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to put the files in a separate directory. So you can see how much they have been minified. We'll now do just a JPEG export. So I'll restart the timer. We are three minutes 45 and I'll just run the JPEG export of the same files. So the export alone took us until about, let's say, five minutes. So one minute and 15 seconds would be about the rough estimate of this. Now let's minify them. I'm first going to use a space saver because it saves the files in a separate directory. Let's throw them in there. Let's start at five minutes so we have a good estimate. Here we go. As you can see, I've left Lightroom on. I've done that for a reason because Lightroom also takes up space. That was about 10 seconds. Lightroom also takes up space and I want it to be the same memory usage as it would be just to give it a fair comparison. Now let's open JPEG Mini Pro. With JPEG Mini Pro, it starts compressing the files as soon as you drop them in. So I'm going to start the timer and then drop them in straight away. So let's say we started at 15. Here we go. So that took a lot longer, about twice the time it took a space saver, roughly 24 seconds. So let's see which ones are the smallest and as you can see, space savers even smaller. It's almost half the size, which is amazing. If you'd like to do a small quality comparison, I did JPEG Mini version. This is the space saver version, big, big. And as you can see, it's almost impossible. I couldn't find any big differences between the two files. So yeah, it's just amazing that you can compress files this much without any loss in visual quality. So very cool to see. So what can we conclude from this? First of all, if you want to minify your files, do it separately. Don't integrate it into your workflow within Lightroom itself. It's just a lot slower if you use JPEG Mini. But the second thing is that space saver is both a lot smaller and a lot faster than JPEG Mini is. And it's even a little bit cheaper. I think JPEG Mini retails for about $70, where space saver retails for about $50. Cheaper, it's faster, it's smaller. So it's basically the best option you've got right now. I do hope that space saver brings out plug-in version and that it will be just as fast as the standalone application. So I hope to see what they do there. But I'm very pleased with the end results and this really increases workflow time. So the question you can now ask is, do you need minified version of your files? It takes up some time to minify them, but it saves a lot of space for you saving them, but also for you sharing them, uploading them to the cloud and sharing them with friends or your customers. And it does take a lot of time. It isn't that expensive. So I would definitely use a minification program. So spend some time, speed up your workflow and make sure that your clients enjoy the small file sizes as well, as do you, when you want to backup JPEGs instead of your raw files. So good luck experimenting with programs. You can experiment with both of them. They've got trial versions. So try them both out and see what your results are. But I'm very surprised to be the end result and very happy with them as well. Cheers.