How would like to shrink your PNG files while preserving full alpha transparency?
Tiny PNG
Tiny PNG is is a free online tool that will help you shrink your PNG file size. Better yet, it’s advanced lossy compression will preserve full alpha transparency.
With a max file size of 2MB and up to 20 images at once, shrinking your PNG’s via Tiny PNG is a breeze!
According to the Tiny PNG website, here’s how it works:
When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny 8-bit PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!
Slick! And you can’t see the difference:
Yeah.
You might want to bookmark this one.
Marcus Williamson says
Nice find. Thanks!
Eric Dye says
You’re welcome. 😀
ThatGuyKC says
Sweetness!! Thank you for the tip. I’ve been using JpegMini and was looking for a PNG alternative.
Eric Dye says
Sweet!
Pol says
http://compresspng.com shrinks more bytes from images.
For example if you compress the logo image of this site:
– tinypng.org: 8,315 bytes
– compresspng.com: 7,939 bytes
Matt Orley says
AWESOME ! Saved to Delicious (yes I still use it!).
Alexander Truong says
I feel kinda bad that I could see the differences. But the image still looks fine! Great tool!
Eric Dye says
Yeah. A picture of a picture doesn’t always compute well in the end. If you go on their website, the image is more compelling.
Stephen Bateman says
My favorite for sure is ImageOptim: https://churchm.ag/optimize-images/
So simple.
Eric Dye says
🙂
Darryl Schoeman says
Awesome. Great find. Thanks for sharing. I needed to know this.
Eric Dye says
Great!