Problem

Images are too large because they are not optimized
Users & your bandwidth is wasted for useless metadata
local image optimization requires tons of programs / libaries / knowledge

Solution

LOSSLESS size reduction (10-97% size reduction) in the cloud
optmizes all images(jpg+png+[gif]) from a given folder

Install

install ruby + rubygems
sudo gem install httpclient
sudo gem install grosser-smusher --source http://gems.github.com/

Usage

Optimize a single image or a whole folder in the cloud.

converting gif-s to png-s:

called with a folder gif-s will not be converted
called on a single .gif or wildcard, image(s) will be converted if optimizeable

Usage: smusher /apps/x/public/images [options] smusher /apps/x/public/images/x.png [options] smusher /apps/x/public/images/*.png [options]

Options are: -q, --quiet no output -c, --convert-gifs convert all .gif`s in the given folder

Protection

Any image that returns a failure code, is larger than before, or is empty will not be saved.

Example

smusher /apps/ts/public/images
  smushing /apps/rs/public/images/social/facebook_icon.png
  2887 -> 132                              = 4%

  smushing /apps/rs/public/images/social/myspace_icon.png
  3136 -> 282                              = 8%

  smushing /apps/rs/public/images/dvd/dvd_1.png
  5045 -> 4                                = 0%
  reverted!
  ...

TODO

only optimize 'new' images -> save time when doing on each deploy
convert gifs to png, even if the new size is the same, for consistency (atm only those which get smaller are converted)

ALTERNATIVES

If you want to lossless reduce images and minify css + js, try reduce.

Authors

Contributors

retr0h

Michael Grosser
[email protected]
Hereby placed under public domain, do what you want, just do not hold me accountable...