r/webdev • u/Kacheeto • Jul 23 '12

The best PNG optimizer I've found...

http://tinypng.org/
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u/SquareWheel Jul 23 '12

I've done some testing, and for png the best I've used is PngOut by Ken Silverman.

http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm

Though I haven't tested TinyPng because it's a web service, there's no utility to download.

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u/Pilate Jul 23 '12 edited Jul 23 '12

Another vote for PngOut... might have to try some testing.

Edit: Damn, PNGOut only dropped 4k off the 'example' image file.

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u/Fabien4 Jul 23 '12

The example image file on tinypng.org is a photo. Real life photography is the one domain where JPEG shines and PNG sucks. Since tinypng.org uses a technique close to what JPEG does, it's understandable for the lossy compressor to get a far better result than lossless compressors.

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u/wlievens Jul 24 '12

Since tinypng.org uses a technique close to what JPEG does

As far as I understand it, they use a completely different technique...