GIF Image Compressor
This GIF image compressor shrinks your image to the smallest file size and best quality possible to use as avatar, discord emoji or ad banner.
- Select a file
For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
- Drag & Drop
Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.
- Paste image URL
Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Paste Base64 Data URI
Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Paste image data
Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Use this Photoshop JSX-Script
Use the script to send an image from Photoshop to compress-or-die.
Copy it to the Photoshop Scripts folder. Overwrite what’s there if you’re asked.
Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS...\Presets\Scripts
Mac OS X: Applications/Photoshop CS.../Presets/Scripts
Restart Photoshop.
Allowed file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG (max. 8 MiB)
Features
- State-Of-The-Art GIF compression algorithm
- Different dithering algorithms
- Support for generation of lossy GIFs
- Frame rate changeable
- Start frame changeable
- For the technical enthusiats: Uses imagemagick, gifsicle, puppeteer and a lot of custom code.
Why should I use this GIF compressor?
If you want to upload your animated or static GIF to a service as an avatar, create a discord emoji with less than 256 kb or upload an alternate GIF of your HTML5 ad banner to an ad network, you usually have to follow strict file size guidelines.
Unfortunately, most GIF compressors do not allow you to reduce the width and height or even the number of colors. This compressor even allows you to further reduce the quality in order to stay within the limits of the compressed file.
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