WebPify is a command line program for MacOS to batch compress .png and .jpg images by converting them to .webp files. The converter relies on Google's Butteraugli to measure the visual difference between images.
The human eye can't perceive very small changes to an image - a fact we can use for better image compression. This program uses binary search to find the best lossy compression value for an image to maximize space savings with no perceivable visual degradation. If no suitable lossy compression value is found, it will fall back on loseless compression.
This program was inspired by this blog post by Colt McAnlis.
| Original JPG | WebP (-q 1.0) | WebP (-q 2.0) |
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| 40 KB (0.00% size reduction) | 26 KB (34.15% size reduction) | 17 KB (57.49% size reduction) |
WebP files are supported by the Google Chrome and Opera web browsers.
Install imagemagick, libjpeg, libpng, and the WebP format through Homebrew. Run the following commands in a Terminal window:
brew install imagemagick libjpeg libpng webp
Download this shell script and run it like so:
chmod +x set_up_butteraugli.sh
./set_up_butteraugli.sh
. ~/.bash_profile
And that's it!
Download the .jar file from the releases section.
java -jar webpify.jar /path/to/target/directory
Optional arguments:
-l : Enable lossless WebP compression. This is only supported in 4.2.1 (technically API 18) and above on Android.
-r : Enable recursive search for image files in the input directory and its subdirectories.
-q [quality_threshold] : Higher quality threshold values allow for more compression, but can result in noticeable visual quality loss. The default value of 1.0 is tuned for no perceivable quality loss.
-n [number_of_processes] : The number of processes to run in parallel. The default value is 2.
Copyright 2016 Colin White
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