/tags/imagemagick/ Aldrin Jenson (imagemagick) Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400 /til/compressing-images-from-the-cli/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400 /til/compressing-images-from-the-cli/ <h3 id="steps">Steps</h3> <ul> <li>Move all your image files to a folder</li> <li>calculate it&rsquo;s folder size using <code>du</code></li> <li>create a copy of the folder.</li> <li>install imagemagick</li> </ul> <p><code>brew install imagemagick</code></p> <ul> <li>in this folder, perform the following actions:</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>mkdir compressed </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#66d9ef">for</span> i in *; <span style="color:#66d9ef">do</span> convert $i -resize 40% compressed/$i; <span style="color:#66d9ef">done</span>; </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The above will compress all images by making the size 40% of the initial size and will move it to a folder called <code>compressed</code></p> <ul> <li>Check folder structure again using <code>du</code></li> <li>if it&rsquo;s still too much, repeat again but this time reduce quality to even lower</li> </ul>