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Yahoo Launches Image Optimization Tool, Smush.it
By Reshma Kumar at October 03, 2008 1 Comments
Yahoo has come out with a Web-based smushing tool. Smush.it optimizes your imagery for you so you can minimize your page size and load time. Upload an image or input the image url and Smushit will smush it for you and provide the results of the smushing. You can then download the decreased file size image in a zip file. I tried it; you can see the results in the screenshot. You can also get a Firefox extension to optimize the images found on any Web page.
As described on the site, “Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.”
The non-lossy compression allows the image to be compressed without losing image quality.
Labels: usability, user experience, web 2.0, Yahoo, YHOO
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looking forward to trying it out. Thanks Yahoo.