Useful Mac OS X Application for Optimising Images - Recommended!

[Ben Stones]

If you're running Mac OS X, there's an awesome application called ImageOptim which optimises an image post-creation, perhaps through Photoshop, and dramatically reduces the size of the image. For example, I made a few graphics in GIMP and some came out at 1MB I recall, and they were crunched to somewhere around 50KB - 100KB and they were as good quality as the originals too!

ImageOptim

If anyone knows of any such programs for Windows that does the same thing, feel free to share .

[Ben Stones]

Thought I'd share a similar optimisation application I found today called Trimage for Linux distributions. For Ubuntu users, it's available in the Ubuntu Software Centre; for other Linux distributions it is available in the software repository for certain distributions

Teminal Commands

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install trimage

(Alternatively available in the Ubuntu Software Centre.)

Debian:

sudo apt-get install trimage

OpenSuse:
Available here: http://software.opensuse.org/search?...lude_home=true

[Ben Stones]

Thanks for sharing that. I run a Mac myself, so to now know how to get a good image on a smaller scale is really helpful to me

No problem Vikram .

[Vikram]

Thanks for sharing that. I run a Mac myself, so to now know how to get a good image on a smaller scale is really helpful to me