Problem

• Images are too large because they are not optimized
• Users & your bandwidth is wasted for useless metadata
• local image optimization requires tons of programs / libaries / knowledge

Solution

• LOSSLESS size reduction (10-97% size reduction) in the cloud
• optmizes all images(jpg+png) from a given folder

Install

install ruby + rubygems + curl
sudo gem install grosser-smusher --source http://gems.github.com/

Usage

smusher /apps/x/public/images # optimize all jpg/png images, NOT gifs
smusher /apps/x/public/images/x.png # optimize a single image
smusher /apps/x/public/images/x.gif # !!optimize to smaller png, rename it yourself!!

Protection

Smusher makes .backup copies of any image before optimizing.
Any image that returns a failure code, is larger than before,
or is empty will be reverted.

Example

smusher /apps/ts/public/images
  sushing /apps/rs/public/images/social/facebook_icon.png
  2887 -> 132                              = 4%

  sushing /apps/rs/public/images/social/myspace_icon.png
  3136 -> 282                              = 8%

  sushing /apps/rs/public/images/dvd/dvd_1.png
  5045 -> 4                                = 0%
  reverted!
  ...

TODO

• use rest-client rather than curl
• windows support?

Author

Michael Grosser
grosser.michael@gmail.com
Hereby placed under public domain, do what you want, just do not hold me accountable...