Optimizing Images for the Web from the Command Line

Are you uploading big, oversized, unoptimized images to your website? Save your users some pain and run your images through ImageMagick to have them perfectly optimized for the web. Resize and strip metadata with a simple command, and even minify your SVGs with SVGO, all in this video...

0:00 Intro
1:43 Installing ImageMagick
2:17 Resizing images
4:16 Setting image quality
5:07 Stripping metadata
6:04 Creating a Bash script
7:33 Optimizing PNGs
8:45 Converting PNG to JPEG
9:19 Batch optimizing
10:55 Optimizing SVGs
14:06 Conclusion

[mathalphabet]

Good tutorial. Lots of people forget about images

[atarg]

I'm so glad that I find your channel. Thanks bro.

[donabdo]

Thanks you Eric for sharing with us these useful programs

[microcodes]

Linus torvalds will proud with your work !! 🙏 Reak guy who promoted linux

[chai]

Thank u for sharing! What are your thoughts on the WebP format?

[emberavenge]

Do you plan on making a video on responsive images in web dev? You'd explain it well, you explain things very well, good video as always!

[miracleweb]

What is your file manager in the right side? With thumbnails for images, looks very cool and convenient)

[lordAgustin]

Ok, but there should be a way of making this script work with either convert or mogrify, depending on which option you choose. Maybe by comparing the number of arguments on each one? (as in, mogrify passes just two arguments)