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Periodic 8f561a9586 Adds a note for an imagemagick command that resizes and optimizes. 2026-09-02 11:28:41 -07:00
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```bash ```bash
nix run 'nixpkgs#jpegoptim' -- --max=85 --strip-all *.jpg nix run 'nixpkgs#jpegoptim' -- --max=85 --strip-all *.jpg
``` ```
The major issue with `jpegoptim` is that it doesn't do resizing. Image Magick is the Swiss army knife of image manipulation and can do it all, but it's a much larger piece of software. This can quickly reduce a full-size camera image (~5MB) to something suitable for web uploads, thumbnails or avatars (50kB).
```bash
nix run 'nixpkgs#imagemagick' -- input.jpg -resize 1200x800 -strip -quality 85 output.jpg
```
There are lots of options that can be passed to the [image geometry](https://imagemagick.org/command-line-processing/#geometry). The default for pixel sizes is to treat it as a maximum and preserve the aspect ratio. If only a width is given then height is automatically determined from the aspect ratio.