Batch Optimize Png, Jpg, and Gif images in Windows (and Visual Studio)
A couple of days ago I found an awesome extension to Visual Studio that lets you just right-click a folder in VS and it will optimize all the images in it with the help of SmushIt and PunyPng. I have tried to find a tool like this for a long time but haven’t found anything that suits my need. I also wanted this functionality in Windows outside of Visual Studio so I downloaded the code and made an extremely simple command prompt application for it. It would, of course, be even better if you could just right-click a folder in Windows to run it but I’m a lazy person and this works for me.
Just run BatchOptimzeImage.exe <foldername> and it will optimize all the images in that folder. I won’t give so much more instructions than this. And again .. ALL credits go to Mads Kristensen for this one. I just wanted to put this out there so you don’t have to spend the hour I spent to make a console app out of it.
