Easy Image Compression (11)
I'm rather impressed with a new tool I found for image compression, called Compressor.io.
For mobile landers, in particular, compressing your images is really important - and even for desktop, it can make a big difference. But the problem is usually that it's quite a fiddly process, even in Photoshop - lots of dragging sliders around and ticking and unticking boxes for the best result.
Compressor does appear to make the process a lot easier, at least on my initial tests.
It's extremely easy to use - just drag an image from your HDD onto the window, and it automatically compresses it. It's not using Magic Rocket Science, just a big pile of standard compression algorithms, but it automates everything and means you don't have to make any choices.
I've done a few tests with it, and found that it generally compresses images about as well as I can manage manually with Photoshop Save For Web. But it's definitely quicker than optimising the settings for each and every image!
I'll be interested to hear how other people get on with it - let me know!
How does it compare to Kraken? (https://kraken.io/web-interface)
I find it's trading blows, sometimes gives greater compression but I haven't done manual comparisons of the images to see if the lossy compression is noticeably different.
I do like that with Kraken you can drag/drop a bunch of files then download the entire zip!
Love kraken's bulk features that exports as a .zip like zeno mentioned !
I haven't done an extensive test - Kraken's good too.
Provided you're using something to compress your images, that's half the battle!
Yup! Also I tried JPEGmini (or whatever it is called). It sometimes beat Kraken but gave more noticeable artefacting and colour banding to images so wouldn't recommend.
And not too bad desktop solution: Shrink-O-Matic (it's in Adobe Air so will go on most of the platforms)
Originally Posted by caurmen
I wonder if im the only sucker that shells out the monthly sub for kraken.io lol
Does anybody have a way to compress bulk animated gif banners? Compressor.io seems to massively outperform Kracken.io for gifs, but doesn't have a bulk feature. I've tried others, like Shrink O Matic, but it leaves the gifs as static images.
I don't have anything automated, but it should be a pretty trivial thing to get coded up if you wanted to.
Nah, don't worry about it. I read online that compressor.io is working on their own batch feature, I only had a couple and was lazy
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