Yahoo recently introduced a web based tool called Smushit to help you optimize the size of web images without affecting visual quality.
Smushit reduces the file size of images by reducing the number of colors, strips off excess metadata, and also discards other non visual data.
There are three ways you can use Smushit:
- Upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
- Provide a list of image URLs
- Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page.
Interestingly, the Smushit site seems to hosted on Dreamhost, not on Yahoo servers as one would expect. Thanks Webware.
Also see: Cropping Pictures with Photoshop is Risky
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/optimize-web-image-size-online-with-yahoo-smushit/4775/
Reader Comments
hmm.. I am not sure how useful this is in the days when broadband is commonplace. Not much savings can be achieved by simply removing meta info and excess colors. I just tried to see if I my guess was right, the size reduction I could generate was less than 5%. Yes, people who have no idea of photography but still try to use some advanced features would manage 10-15% reduction in size. But is this really worth the effort of launching a website to do just this? I can’t think of a proper target audience for this app.
Written by Arun on 10.04.08
is it just me or yahoo is really bad at picking names… smushit sounds like smu-shit, instead of smush-it
Written by Calvin on 10.04.08
LOL
“Smushed 0.00% or 0 bytes from the size of your image(s). How did we do it? See the table below for more details”
Tried it with 10 different photos… lol
Written by Marco on 10.04.08
amit this webware url that u have included is a broken link. please check it
Written by ajaypathak on 10.04.08
It’s good it is reducing the file size of the image at the same time image also looks far more better than original one.Thanks amit.
Written by venkat on 10.04.08