For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.
Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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)
Developed by Google and long touted as a JPEG successor, the WebP format offers lossless compression in addition to slightly superior lossy compression to JPEG. Additionally, it adds the ability to create images with transparency that JPEG lacks.
Compress-Or-Die allows to set the compression strength of the transparency independently from the rest of the quality and to sharpen the color edges, which counteracts the 1x1 color subsampling that the WebP format lacks. All settings made can of course be previewed in the browser before the graphic is finally downloaded.
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