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14/12/2013
PNG Compression
I use Luminance HDR for assembling HDRs. It works great, and I usually use PNG format to export the LDR image files.
Problem is, the PNGs created by Luminance are big.
I can load one in GIMP and save it again in PNG, and the file goes down from 60MB to 20MB. Quite a lot.
The thing is, can I compress all the PNGs in a folder at once ? The answer is “optipng”. Install it in your Linux system, and then, in a terminal, go to the folder that contains them and do this:
for i in *.png; do optipng -quiet -preserve -log optipng.log “$i”; done
This will compress all the PNG files. If you have time, try:
for i in *.png; do optipng -o7 -quiet -preserve -log optipng.log “$i”; done
(note the -o7) It will take a lot more time, but the compression will be better.