Compression

OptiImage – GUI image compressor

Optimize your images with OptiImage, a useful image compressor that supports PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types.

It supports both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images. It additionally has a safe mode, where a new image is created instead of overwriting the old one.

It uses oxipng, jpegoptim, scour, and cwebp.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Safe mode – save the compressed image in a new file.
  • Option to keep metadata.
  • JPG:
    • Use progressive encode.
    • Use lossless compression.
    • Set the optimisation level of lossy optimisation.
  • PNG:
    • Set the default optimisation level of lossless optimisation/
  • WebP:
    • Option to use lossless compression.
    • Set the optimisation level of lossy optimisation.

Website: invent.kde.org/graphics/optiimage
Support:
Developer: Carl Schwan
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

OptiImage in action

OptiImage is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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