You have a lot of images, and want to optimize and compress the images without losing its original quality before uploading them to any cloud or local storages? There are plenty of GUI applications available which will help you to optimize the images. However, here are two simple command-line utilities to optimize images and they are:
- jpegoptim – is a utility to optimize/compress JPEG files without losing quality.
- OptiPNG – is a small program that optimizes PNG images to a smaller size without losing any information.
Using these two tools, you can either optimize single or multiple images at a time.
Compress or Optimize JPEG Images from Command Line
jpegoptim is a command-line tool that can be used to optimize and compress JPEG, JPG and JFIF files without losing its actual quality. This tool supports lossless optimization, which is based on optimizing the Huffman tables.
Install jpegoptim in Linux
To install jpegoptim on your Linux systems, run the following command from your terminal.
On Debian and it’s Derivatives
# apt-get install jpegoptim or $ sudo apt-get install jpegoptim
On RedHat based Systems
On RPM based systems like RHEL, CentOS, Fedora etc., you need to install and enable EPEL repository or alternatively, you can install the epel repository directly from the commandline as shown:
# yum install epel-release # dnf install epel-release [On Fedora 22+ versions]
Next install jpegoptim program from the repository as shown:
# yum install jpegoptim # dnf install jpegoptim [On Fedora 22+ versions]
How to Use Jpegoptim Image Optimizer
The syntax of jpegoptm is:
$ jpegoptim filename.jpeg $ jpegoptim [options] filename.jpeg
Let’s now compress the following rootadminz.jpeg image, but before optimizing the image, first find out the actual size of the image using du command as shown.
$ du -sh rootadminz.jpeg 6.2M rootadminz.jpeg
Here the actual file size is 6.2MB, now compress this file by running:
$ jpegoptim rootadminz.jpeg
Open the compressed image in any image viewer application, you will not find any major differences. The source and compressed images will have the same quality.
The above command optimizes the images to the maximum possible size. However, you can compress the given image to a specific size to, but it disables the lossless optimization.
For example, let us compress above the image from 5.6MB to around 250k.
$ jpegoptim --size=250k rootadminz.jpeg
Batch JPEG Image Compression and Optimization
You might ask how to compress the images in the entire directory, that’s not difficult too. Go to the directory where you have the images.
rootadminz@rootadminz ~ $ cd img/ rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ ls -l total 65184 -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6680532 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0310.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6846248 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0311.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 7174430 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0312.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6514309 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0313.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6755589 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0314.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6789763 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0315.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6958387 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0316.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6463855 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0317.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 6614855 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0318.JPG -rwxr----- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 5931738 Jan 19 12:21 DSC_0319.JPG
And then run the following command to compress all images at once.
rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ jpegoptim *.JPG
DSC_0310.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6680532 --> 5987094 bytes (10.38%), optimized. DSC_0311.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6846248 --> 6167842 bytes (9.91%), optimized. DSC_0312.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 7174430 --> 6536500 bytes (8.89%), optimized. DSC_0313.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6514309 --> 5909840 bytes (9.28%), optimized. DSC_0314.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6755589 --> 6144165 bytes (9.05%), optimized. DSC_0315.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6789763 --> 6090645 bytes (10.30%), optimized. DSC_0316.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6958387 --> 6354320 bytes (8.68%), optimized. DSC_0317.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6463855 --> 5909298 bytes (8.58%), optimized. DSC_0318.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6614855 --> 6016006 bytes (9.05%), optimized. DSC_0319.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 5931738 --> 5337023 bytes (10.03%), optimized.
You can also compress multiple selected images at once:
$ jpegoptim DSC_0310.JPG DSC_0311.JPG DSC_0312.JPG DSC_0310.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6680532 --> 5987094 bytes (10.38%), optimized. DSC_0311.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 6846248 --> 6167842 bytes (9.91%), optimized. DSC_0312.JPG 6000x4000 24bit N Exif [OK] 7174430 --> 6536500 bytes (8.89%), optimized.
For more details about jpegoptim tool, check out the man pages.
$ man jpegoptim
Compress or Optimize PNG Images from Command Line
OptiPNG is a command line tool used to optimize and compress PNG (portable network graphics) files without losing its original quality.
The installation and usage of OptiPNG is very similar to jpegoptim.
Install OptiPNG in Linux
To install OptiPNG on your Linux systems, run the following command from your terminal.
On Debian and it’s Derivatives
# apt-get install optipng or $ sudo apt-get install optipng
On RedHat based Systems
# yum install optipng # dnf install optipng [On Fedora 22+ versions]
Note: You must have epel repository enabled on your RHEL/CentOS based systems to install optipng program.
How to Use OptiPNG Image Optimizer
The general syntax of optipng is:
$ optipng filename.png $ optipng [options] filename.png
Let us compress the rootadminz.png image, but before optimizing, first check the actual size of the image as shown:
rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ ls -lh rootadminz.png -rw------- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 350K Jan 19 12:54 rootadminz.png
Here the actual file size of above image is 350K, now compress this file by running:
rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ optipng rootadminz.png
OptiPNG 0.6.4: Advanced PNG optimizer.
Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Cosmin Truta.
** Processing: rootadminz.png
1493x914 pixels, 4x8 bits/pixel, RGB+alpha
Reducing image to 3x8 bits/pixel, RGB
Input IDAT size = 357525 bytes
Input file size = 358098 bytes
Trying:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 249211
Selecting parameters:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 249211
Output IDAT size = 249211 bytes (108314 bytes decrease)
Output file size = 249268 bytes (108830 bytes = 30.39% decrease)
As you see in the above output, the size of the rootadminz.png file has been reduced up to 30.39%. Now verify the file size again using:
rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ ls -lh rootadminz.png -rw-r--r-- 1 rootadminz rootadminz 244K Jan 19 12:56 rootadminz.png
Open the compressed image in any image viewer application, you will not find any major differences between the original and compressed files. The source and compressed images will have the same quality.
Batch PNG Image Compression and Optimization
To compress batch or multiple PNG images at once, just go the directory where all images resides and run the following command to compress.
rootadminz@rootadminz ~ $ cd img/
rootadminz@rootadminz ~/img $ optipng *.png
OptiPNG 0.6.4: Advanced PNG optimizer.
Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Cosmin Truta.
** Processing: Debian-8.png
720x345 pixels, 3x8 bits/pixel, RGB
Input IDAT size = 95151 bytes
Input file size = 95429 bytes
Trying:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 81388
Selecting parameters:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 0 IDAT size = 81388
Output IDAT size = 81388 bytes (13763 bytes decrease)
Output file size = 81642 bytes (13787 bytes = 14.45% decrease)
** Processing: Fedora-22.png
720x345 pixels, 4x8 bits/pixel, RGB+alpha
Reducing image to 3x8 bits/pixel, RGB
Input IDAT size = 259678 bytes
Input file size = 260053 bytes
Trying:
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 0 f = 5 IDAT size = 222479
zc = 9 zm = 8 zs = 1 f = 5 IDAT size = 220311
zc = 1 zm = 8 zs = 2 f = 5 IDAT size = 216744
Selecting parameters:
zc = 1 zm = 8 zs = 2 f = 5 IDAT size = 216744
Output IDAT size = 216744 bytes (42934 bytes decrease)
Output file size = 217035 bytes (43018 bytes = 16.54% decrease)
....
For more details about optipng check man pages.
$ man optipng
