Optimize images for web – Image optimization/format conversion
Image optimization is very essential for web because it is directly related to rendering of your website pages. If website is not developed by professional designer and developers it is very less probable that images are at their correct size and resolution on web pages.
Some times it takes lot of the time to load these pages with non-optimized imaged which make page overall slow and less interesting to browse. we understand that images are essential part of web but can reduce web efficiency if not used properly.
Here i am listing few tools/websites which may help in optimizing images for web with out compromising your requirement (required quality of an image). These are some serious tools which does not only let you resize your images but also let you know how much you saved along with freedom to use them in your program also:
1. Smush.it: It is a web based tool which use most of tools below to optimize images. You can also get firefox plugin from the site. Visit its website for more details.
2. ImageMagik:It is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves.
ImageMagik is generally used through command line and there are few libraries written over it various languages so that you can use these tools in your favorite programming language like C, C++, Java, Php, Perl, Python, .Net etc.
3. pngcrush :Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It can be run from a commandline in an MSDOS window, or from a UNIX or LINUX command line.
Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels an PNG filter methods.
4. jpegtran : It lets you optimize JPEG images loss less by:
a. Stripping meta data (meta is sometimes bulky and useless for web display)
b. Optimizing Huffman tables or
c. Convert a JPEG to progressive encoding
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