PNG Compressor
This free online PNG compressor converts your lossless PNGs or high quality JPEGs into lossy PNGs with the smallest filesize possible.
- 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 PNG compression algorithm
- 8 bit and 24 bit PNG output
- Fuzzy whitespace trimming
- Lossless auto-rotation based on EXIF meta data (on JPEG input)
- Selective Blur preprocessing
- Clean color space conversion from CMYK
- Converts to standard color profile sRGB-IEC61966-2.1
- Gamma correction to 2.2
- Compression view
- For the technical enthusiats: Uses imagemagick, pngquant, zopflipng, posterize, exiftran, puppeteer and a lot of custom code.
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