Using ImageMagick to create Webp images
01. January 2021
Imagemagick is a swiss army knife for image manipulation available on Linux and windows. Webp is a new efficient format for images supported by most modern browsers
Basic usage
I have begun to use image magick on this block to compress some of the images. It can reduce the files size by up to 10 times. Here’s an example below using this image
Example image
This original Jpeg file is 8522kb and was compressed using a command like this, and changing the quality and lossless parameters.
magick platform.jpg -quality 30 -define webp:lossless=false platform30.webp
Results
Quality | Lossless | Size |
---|---|---|
30 | false | 729kb |
50 | false | 990kb |
80 | false | 1746kb |
30 | true | 15043kb |
50 | true | 15042kb |
80 | true | 15042kb |