If you have a lot of photos on your Mac, you might be running out of disk space soon. Photos can take up a lot of space, especially if they are in high resolution and quality. But what if you could reduce the size of your photos without losing much quality? That's where HEIF comes in.
HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image File Format. It's a new image format that produces images with a smaller file size and higher image quality than the older JPEG standard. In other words, HEIF is just better than JPEG. HEIF achieves this through use of more advanced compression methods. This new image format is based on the High Efficiency Video Compression format, also known as HEVC or H.265.
But how can you convert your existing photos to HEIF on your Mac? You might think that you need some expensive software or complicated commands to do that. But actually, there is a free and easy way to do it with an open source program called JPG to HEIF converter.
You can experiment with different quality settings until you find the one that suits your needs best. You can also convert multiple files at once by selecting a folder. To compare the results, you can use Finder's Get Info option to see how much space each file takes up.
If you want to save some space on your Mac without sacrificing too much quality, JPG to HEIF converter is a great tool that can help you do that easily and quickly.
This converter app allows you to open JPG/JPEG/PNG and some RAW (NEF, CR2, SR2, ARW and Apple ProRaw) files on Mac and save them in HEIF with selected conversion quality.
It's free and open source. Feel free to fork and contribute: https://github.com/makoni/jpg-to-heif-converter
