Portable BPGconv

Portable BPGconv is a lightweight and simple to understand piece of software whose main function consists of helping you convert your pictures to Better Portable Graphics files, also being able to perform the reverse operation.

Working with standalone tools does not come without its perks, some of which include the ability to store and run the utility from a removable storage device, for instance a USB stick, on any compatible PC, without going through a setup operation.

It also means that Portable BPGconv will create no additional registry entries on your system, allowing you to remove it without any traces left behind on the host computer.

Better Portable Graphics is a newly developed image format authored by Fabrice Bellard, its main benefit being the fact that it can achieve much higher compression rates that other similar formats, yet having a lower impact on the quality of the output file.

With Portable BPGconv, you can easily drag and drop your JPG or PNG photos into the main window, in the ‘Encode’ section, and press start to output them in BPG format, learning how much their size decreased in percentages, once the process is complete.

At the same time, the program is able to ‘Decode’ BPG files and export them to one of several available formats, namely JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF or GIF. Output files can saved in a dedicated directory on your desktop or you can choose a different location every time you convert a new set of files.

The right-side retractable menu enables you to further customize the process and decide whether to work with a ‘Lossless Mode’ or ‘Preserve Metadata’. Other adjustable options include the ‘Quantizer Factor’, ‘Compression Level’, ‘Bit Depth’, ‘Color Space’ or ‘Chroma Format’.

To summarize, Portable BPGconv is an appealing and effective application that you can rely on for generating BPG images out of your regular pictures, the high level of compression giving you the possibility to save up space on your computer and make them easier to transfer.