Comments on: Compress & Optimize Images Easily with ImageOptim for Mac OS X

By: How to Remove EXIF Data from Images Quickly

How to Remove EXIF Data from Images Quickly — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:46:43 +0000

[...] data is really easy to remove with the help of ImageOptim, a free Mac tool we’ve discussed before that compresses and optimizes images. In that process of optimizing a photo, ImageOptim also strips [...]

By: JScarry

JScarry — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:29:54 +0000

We’ve made a bunch of games for iPads and based on reading the docs made all of our images PNGs. But that resulted in huge file sizes, especially for games that use photos. So we switched to JPEGs for the content. Buttons are still PNGs.

In our first batch of games we used PhotoShop at 30% quality setting. The pictures are OK looking but you can see some artifacts, especially when there are large areas of the same color, like skies. For our current game, we experimented with ImageOptim. The compressed images are virtually indistinguishable from the originals. Unfortunately, ImageOptim only has an 80% setting and running two passes gets you as small as you are going to get. This is significantly smaller than Photoshop—but not as small as you can get with a lower quality setting in Photoshop. Since there are no sounds in this game, we’ll probably go with ImageOptim.

Here are some stats for 3673 pictures at 644×498.

Originals: 1,140.0 MB ImageOptim 80% 249.6 MB ImageOptim 2nd Pass 238.9 MB

Photoshop 80% 323.9 MB Photoshop 50% 249.8 MB 50% with ImageOptim 241.3 MB Photoshop 30% 166.7 MB

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:48:14 +0000

Wow, you completely missed the mark — and revealed yourself to be a bit of a jerk. At least the “wacko” wrote something useful.

By: Adam Hyland

Adam Hyland — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:39:51 +0000

He can’t put it on the App Store because the software in it is GPL’d. The terms of the GPL basically forbid you from distributing binaries under the limitations of the App store. So when he says “Free”, he means free as in speech, not free as in beer.

By: Romney

Romney — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:54:09 +0000

Why do you think it was rejected? Daringfireball wrote about this app like 2 weeks ago.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:37:03 +0000

The guy says on his site that Apple won’t put it on the App Store because they forbid free apps. Really? Is that why there’s thousands and thousands of free apps on The App Store. Thanks, but no thanks, wacko. I have a feeling they rejected it for other reasons.

By: parin

parin — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:27:51 +0000

I need help installing this. Please help me.