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    After listening to the latest podcast and thinking more about speed optimization for my ecommerce site I looked at smushit. Unfortunately it doesn't let you upload a folder of images so optimizing my product cataloge was out of the question (i wasn't navigating to 1500 products to optimize a single image).

    I did find a solution that will churn through local folders on your machine and optimize them. It requires ruby installed on your machine (and the hurdles that entails) but for the savings (30% size on 1500 products) is might be worth it if you don't have Ruby installed already.

    Checkout these two Github repositories.

    http://github.com/grosser/reduce
    http://github.com/grosser/smusher

    Good luck smushing.
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      CommentAuthorDoug S.
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2009
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    Just a note: Symphony does this for you automatically. You can automatically choose the image optimization settings for JPEGs and it will resize/crop/trip as necessary and then save a version at whatever quality setting you choose.

    Don't think it does PNGs but I usually do those myself and I use ImageOptim.
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    hiya,

    Fireworks or photoshop can do this using thier workflow tools or actions. Juts record the action of resizing for the web at the size / quality you would like, then set up a "droplet" using that action. Then just drag the directory of images onto the droplet and it will do the work for you.

    Hope that helps,

    Jamie & Lion
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      CommentAuthorDaveH
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2009
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    Hi the Grosser links are great, thanks.

    Unfortunately SmushIt only does 5 images per page.
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    I bulk process images using Fireworks all the time, would easily handle 1500 products, you can chose the export format, jpeg compression, final size etc etc.

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