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Automating Image Compression

10 days ago
  • #automation
  • #cli-tools
  • #image-compression
  • Command-line tools pngquant and jpegoptim are recommended for image compression due to their cross-platform availability and free usage.
  • Advantages of CLI tools include batch processing, automation compatibility, consistent results, and no need for manual GUI exports.
  • Installation instructions for macOS (Homebrew), Linux (Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora, Arch) are provided.
  • Commands for compressing single PNG and JPG files, as well as recursively compressing all PNGs and JPGs in a project, are detailed.
  • Options for parallel processing to utilize multi-core CPUs and skipping small images (less than 50KB) to optimize compression efforts are included.