[magick-users] compress gif / png file to be smaller

Scott scotbicknel at cox.net
Fri Mar 7 10:19:09 PST 2008


On Thursday 06 March 2008 9:21:52 pm Kris wrote:
> sorry my newb question
>
> 1. any idea how to compress GIF image ? i got 300kb GIF image
> and i wanna compress it smaller. i tried and got no luck.
> 2. any idea how to reduce quality of PNG file ? i tried
> -quality but it seems not worked. the size got bigger

You can use pngcrush, as someone already suggested. You can also 
convert your png from 24 bit color to indexed, which will 
greatly reduce the filesize if there aren't too many colors in 
the image. You can get file sizes smaller than gif this way.
-- 
Scott
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