Sorry if this is a duplicate, I cant find anyone complaining about this nd nobody seems to be checking the Image API module... When I upload a large image (lets say 300kb) and then create a mini thumbnail, the image is like 40kb for a 40x35 px image. It should be 3-4kb. THis is really getting to be a problem with imagecache for me, as many users submit images that arent optimied for the web.

It seems strange that imagecache and imageapi dont optimize images for web when they do their magic. I am using ImageMagick at 35%, and the image is still huge. If I take that same image and put it into photoshow and save for web at 60% the file is 80-90% smaller (as it should be). This really is a big problem imo.

ImageCache in combination with ImageMagick or ImageApi do not seem to be very efficient at compressing images for web. Seems strange considering that this is for a website.

Now before anybody tells me anything about image manipulation. I am a graphic artist and know photoshop and all that stuff very extensively. I do professional photography and I am veeeery knowledgful regarding image sizes, appearence, etc. The images being resized and resaved by this combo of software is sometimes doing an even worst job that a standard (not for web) photoshop save. IMO, images saved through this combo should be as efficient as saving an image for web in photoshop, not comparable to a standard non optimized save.

I mean, come on, how can a 60x40 image created from ImageCahce and ImageAPI using ImageMagick be 30KB??? I dont care how big the original file is, its 60px by 40px of data supposed to be saved and optimized for the web. 30KB is waaaaaaaay to big. If I take the same file and put it into photoshop and optimize for web its 90% smaller.

Does anybody have this problem? Is this ImageCache or ImageAPI problem? Right now Ive settled on Image ImageMagick with ImageCahce 2.0 (beta10). Any advice? These images must be optimized, its killing the file size of our website.

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Exploratus’s picture

Exploratus commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Well. It seems there is an awesome little module called Image API Optimize, which does exactly what I needed. I still cannot believe that nobody really mentions it, it should be an integral component of ImageAPI and Image Cache. I don't know how anybody can be using this combo of modules, and not use Image API Optimize. My files went from 30k to 1k. YAY!

This should be mentioned somewhere, its a great little modules

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FranCarstens commented

I agree! Save to web is essential - and my clients can't always afford Photoshop.

This is the project page, by the way: http://drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize