How many times have we needed to compress the size of our picture so that they can be uploaded on a particular website? And how many times do we want to compress the picture while we keep the dimensions unchanged. Answer: many.
PunyPNG is an online service that lets us to just that.
Clicking on the ‘Upload Images’ button pops up a windows where we can browse over to the folder where our picture is located. After selecting it, our desired picture is uploaded. Remember, to work with PunyPNG the Adobe Flash Player for your respective internet browser must be installed. At the moment the maximum size of a photograph which can be uploaded is 150 KB. I hope PunyPNG will increase this limit soon.
After the upload process has taken place, PunyPNG gives you the details of the size of your current image, the size of the compressed image, and the percentage compression which PunyPNG was successful in achieving.
With these details right in front of us, we can decide whether or not PunyPNG was able to reach a considerable compression percentage. In my opinion, 9% is a great compression value when we keep in mind that image quality is negligibly compromised.
When satisfied with the figures in front of us, we can proceed to click the ‘Download’ button and get our modified. The format of the result will vary. Depending on the file, PunyPNG will automatically convert an uploaded GIF into a PNG format and then further compress that. For JPEGs, sometimes it is better to make it a PNG, and other times it’s better to keep it as JPEG and use jpeg-tran to optimize it. By taking over those decision, PunyPNG is able to make the best optimizations and provide you with a high level of compression.
Today there are a number of photo-compression tools out there, some even freeware like PunyPNG itself. Here is how PunyPNG benchmarks when stacked up with the rest of the crowd:
The results speak for themselves; PunyPNG is the leading image-compression tool which is being provided for free here. Being the simplest solution to our compression needs, the PunyPNG page should be bookmarked and frequented whenever needed.
