Compress & Optimize Images Easily with ImageOptim for Mac OS X
If you’re at all concerned about the file size of images you should grab ImageOptim, a free image compression tool that is so ridiculously simple it’s basically foolproof, while still being extremely effective. The app works to compress images without reducing image quality, which is achieved by bundling several compression tools, including the popular PNGCrush, PNGOUT, AdvPNG, Zopfli extended OptiPNG, JPEGrescan, jpegtran, JPEGOptim, and gifsicle, and using those tools to find the optimum compression parameters, in addition to stripping color profile information, EXIF, and other metadata out from the raw files. ImageOptim supports a variety of file formats, including PNG, GIF, JPG, and animated GIFs, here’s a quick look at the interface:
The simplicity is deceptive in that it doesn’t demonstrate just how handy this app is, or just how effective the optimization is. Let’s cover usage and a few tricks to get the most out of it…