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Our team used pngquant (http://pngquant.org/ http://pngquant.org/) recently to reduce complex, high-res PNGs to about 33% of their original size. It gave us the
by schmich 12y ago
Our team used pngquant (http://pngquant.org/ http://pngquant.org/) recently to reduce complex, high-res PNGs to about 33% of their original size. It gave us the size benefits of lossy compression while retaining the PNG alpha channel. It seems to be good enough to tide us over until WebP gains traction (not holding my breath).
- tracker1 12y agoIIRC, you're limited to 256 colors total (including those with an alpha channel)... it works pretty well, but it really depends on the picture in question. I use pngquant all the time myself... :-)
- ashmud 12y agoColor quantizer (http://x128.ho.ua/color-quantizer.html http://x128.ho.ua/color-quantizer.html) lets you use up to 12-bit (4096 colors). For command line, the author has TruePNG (http://x128.ho.ua/pngutils.html http://x128.ho.ua/pngutils.html).