Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Yeah - that was it: adding a -strip to my command line has got rid of the extra file size.

Thanks very much glennrp.

-70 gives a filesize of 52k. Quality is not far behind the PSP version - but obviously that's a big difference in filesize if you're preparing images for the web. (I guess for a lot of other purposes it doesn't really matter that much).

Just wondered if it was something I'm doing wrong...

Yes - that looks better - but it's 239k! I'm trying to get better quality at the same file size.

Hi, I'm experimenting with ImageMagick for re-sizing and compressing JPGs on my webserver. Getting the best file-size/quality is really important for this project. My test image seems to be poor quality when saved from ImageMagick compared to other programs, for the same file size. I've put some ...