Tools for JPEG optimization?
[WINDOWS ONLY]
RIOT(Radical Image Optimization Tool) This is the greatest image optimization tool I have found!
http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
You can easily get a 10MB image down to 800KB through sub-sampling. It supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It even integrates into context menus so you can send pictures straight there. Allows you to rotate, re-size, compress to specified KB's, and more. Also has plugins for GIMP and IrfanView and other things.
There is also a DLL available if you want to incorporate it into your own programs or java script / c++ program.
Another alternative is http://pnggauntlet.com/ PNGGAUNTLET takes forever but it does a pretty good job.
[WINDOWS ONLY]
I use libjpeg for lossless operations. It contains a command-line tool jpegtran that can do all you want. With the commandline option -copy none
all the metadata is stripped, and -optimize
does a lossless optimization of the Huffmann compression. You can also convert the images to progressive mode with -progressive
, but that might cause compatibility problems (does anyone know more about that?)
I wrote a GUI for all image optimization tools I could find, including MozJPEG and jpegoptim
that optimize Huffman tables, progressive scans, and (optionally) remove invisible metadata.
If you don't have a Mac, I also have a basic web interface that works on any platform.