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Smushit looks cool, but I've never really had a problem optimizing images with Photoshop. You have a lot of fine-grained control over compression and file size.

Smushit looks cool, but I've never really had a problem optimizing images with Photoshop. You have a lot of fine-grained control over compression and file size. If you discard the profile properly when doing a save for web, I'm not sure how it "doesn't fully optimize" images. As for PNG files, I'd rather have the transparency and ability to tinker with different backgrounds than have to re-export a set of icons every time.

akirk 17y ago
PNGOUT (http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout) and PNGCRUSH (http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/ http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/) are similar utilities that can compress PNG files even further. The idea is that you do all your invasive stuff (like reduce colors etc.) in Save for Web in Photoshop (or similar) and then let one of the two programs do its job, which will visually not alter the image.
epi0Bauqu 17y ago
Sure, I might not have used the proper settings, though generally I've clicked around all the setting until the lowest file size appears at the bottom (without losing image quality). If you don't mind me asking (out of curiosity), if you run smush.it on one of your optimized pages, do you get any reduction?
- rossriley 17y ago
  I've just tried it on a few of mine and had zero savings. So I'm not sure what it is doing that is different to Photoshop.
nocman 17y ago
This is a bit off topic, but am I the only one who thinks yahoo could have picked a better name for that service? :-D I can see why they might try to emphasize the "dot" in the smush.it logo (for separation of the last four letters). But having the "it" in the logo be brown, as well as the brownish background on the main page doesn't help. Part of me hopes that someone just really wasn't thinking, and the other part says they are doing this on purpose. I wonder which part is correct. If it is the latter, color me unimpressed.

akirk 17y ago

PNGOUT (http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout) and PNGCRUSH (http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/ http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/) are similar utilities that can compress PNG files even further. The idea is that you do all your invasive stuff (like reduce colors etc.) in Save for Web in Photoshop (or similar) and then let one of the two programs do its job, which will visually not alter the image.

epi0Bauqu 17y ago

Sure, I might not have used the proper settings, though generally I've clicked around all the setting until the lowest file size appears at the bottom (without losing image quality). If you don't mind me asking (out of curiosity), if you run smush.it on one of your optimized pages, do you get any reduction?

rossriley 17y ago
I've just tried it on a few of mine and had zero savings. So I'm not sure what it is doing that is different to Photoshop.

nocman 17y ago

This is a bit off topic, but am I the only one who thinks yahoo could have picked a better name for that service? :-D I can see why they might try to emphasize the "dot" in the smush.it logo (for separation of the last four letters). But having the "it" in the logo be brown, as well as the brownish background on the main page doesn't help. Part of me hopes that someone just really wasn't thinking, and the other part says they are doing this on purpose. I wonder which part is correct. If it is the latter, color me unimpressed.