What is COLORSQUEEZE?

Eastman Kodak’s ColorSqueeze program opens 24-bit PICT and TIFF images and offers three degrees of compression: Normal. Medium, and High. The highest compression setting reduces file sizes by almost 100 percent, although it does so with a noticeable loss in image quality.

ColorSqueeze provides zooming controls that are crucial for examining the effects of compression on line image details. The software also lets you create collages by copying and pasting rectangular areas of images. The program even has built-in printing for image archiving.

You can save thumbnail versions of your images along with the compressed files. Decompressed files can be saved in PICT or TIFF format as well as in the ColorSqueeze KIC format. All decompressed images are convened to 32-bit-per-pixel images, even if they began as black-and-white. For this reason, ColorSqueeze is not an ideal program for compressing gray-scale images or monochrome paint files.

The ColorSqueeze package includes a 422K decompression-only utility that you can distribute freely for noncommercial use.

Overall, ColorSqueeze is easy to use and offers the essentials for compressing files. With browsing, zooming, cutting, pasting, and printing included, it's both multitalented and self-sufficient. The program's three compression settings are limited compared with those of ImpressIt and Picture Press, however, and the package lacks a Photoshop plug-in module.

Parascandolo, Salvatore. (September 1991). ColorSqueeze, ImpressIt, and PicturePress. MacUser. (pgs. 68, 70).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II