Hi,
Smush it free version allows you to do lossless compression, while lossy compression requires a paid version.
To use Imagify, it’s not required to purchase or subscribe to a paid plan.
All accounts by default are subscribed to the Free Plan (25MB/month) that renews monthly.
If you have consumed all your Free Plan quota, you may simply wait for its renewal and you will have another 25MB.
You may be on a Free Plan as long as you wish to. There is no time limit on how long you can be subscribed to it.
Ok I am confused even as a professional photographer i know this
Unlike lossy file compression, using the lossless format can end up reducing a file’s size without any loss of the original quality. Any with Smush it our file sizes are smaller than the original. I also see other other plugins that use lossy compression, and Googles new compression API is great, and free. We have thousands of photos per website over 50 GB or more each, for different things we use. If we had to pay for all of our websites and photos your fees, we could not afford to be in business, I also understand as a plugin provider you could not say in business if you did not have some paid plans. I suppose we could reduce all of our image sizes first on our pc, then use your program, be there are free programs that already do that on the PC or Mac, then it is much faster to upload the already compressed photo. Maybe this is not the place to complain as support. Maybe I don’t really understand all the compression algorithms either. I thought i want good compression, lower file size to speed up my site. What do you suggest I do to maximize your free version for what we are doing ? I think a lot of users would like this information also. Thanks
