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rated 0 times [  1] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 1347  / 3 Years ago, thu, october 14, 2021, 2:37:52

I'd like to compress my screenshots as much as possible before I send them via email. The best compression ratio I only got with some work on each screenshot:




  • first I took the screenshot with shutter: 1920x1080px, PNG compression 9 -> around 450Kb

  • then I uploaded it to http://tinypng.org/ -> got the same picture with quantisation but only around 150Kb left



how could I achieve such a good compression within a screenshot tool like shutter?



The technique of http://tinypng.org seems fabulous:




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




But shutter has no "quantisation" option.



The Quality is not that important, I wouldn't mind to have it more lossy. Maybe with GIF it would be possible to compress smaller? Or with less colors?


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You can add this plugin to shutter:




Screenshot tool with integrated optipng or pngcrush




that gives you the option to compress the created screenshot with optipng


[#31108] Friday, October 15, 2021, 3 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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