ImageOptim Image Compression Tool
November 19th, 2009
Most of the time the tools used when creating and compressing images for the Web do a good job, but some of them leave behind some excess metadata that can increase the file size while providing no particular benefit. In particular, I’m thinking of Photoshop’s “Save for Web” functionality when it comes to PNG images. There’s a number of command-line tools that can be used to help with things like this, but ImageOptim (for Mac OS X) wraps them into a handy GUI to make handling them easier.
Michael Raichelson
