Nifty app I found today: Ping 1.0, it’s a simple (and free!) app for compressing your png files without any quality losses. Photoshop’s PNG is the worst offender and this’ll help reduce the file size and save your web bandwidth. I got a 440 KB PNG file down to 356 KB and they’re virtually identical in graphic quality.
Completely unrelated but I had to mention this Xbox 360 deal at Fry’s Outpost.com, they’re selling Xbox 360 Premium with three games; Saint’s Row, Dead Rising and Test Drive Unlimited for $450. Original price is $560 so grab yours today before the deal expires at Oct. 17th. I got my order in. Next month, Wii and Zelda: Twilight Princess, I can’t wait :)
Nooooooooooooooooooo, we are going to lose you to the gaming community again!
The new PNG *ought* to be exactly the same quality as the old. There are numerous ways of making PNGs smaller, but all of these are lossless, and trade off CPU time to compress and decompress against file size.
Rickey, far from it :)
Massively Multiplayer Online games like WoW is the devil.
Hey! Awesome app, I use pngs all the time and often wondered if they were really as small as possible. So far it has worked well on all the ones I have tried.
I like it so much I make a simple automator script that can let me right click the .png in the finder and process it with Ping!
The actions are as follows:
- ‘Get selected Finder Items’
- ‘Open Finder Items’
- – Open With: Ping
Then go to file and select ‘Save As Plug-In…” and make sure the finder is selected in the dropdown ‘Plug-in for:”.
Name is something clever and your good to go!
-Owl