

You can run Black Bird Image Optimizer 1.0.0.1 on all modern Windows OS operating systems. With Black Bird Image Optimize - you can reduce the size of your photos several times without quality loss! We use a completely new color quantization algorithms which are capable of lossless quality reduce the size of photos! Also, Black Bird Image Optimizer remove doesn't need to your metadata from images. In the stylesheet file, place the mouse on the image Url and use the Embed image in stylesheet menu item in order to replace the Url into a base64 string.Optimize pictures without quality losslessOptimize pictures without quality lossless. Here is a use case scenario for base64 strings for stylesheet embedding: In big images, the produced string can be very long and you will get a slower download rate for your web page. This of course should be used with caution since creating base64 strings from images should be done on small images. Embedding base64 strings instead of using the image Url can decrease the amount of HTTP requests that your application produces. The optimization summary will be written in the Output Window:Īnother feature that the extension is supporting, currently in beta, is the ability to convert images to base64 strings for stylesheet embedding. Another way is to download the Image Optimizer extension and install it.Īs you can see in the figure above, I point to the images directory inside my ASP.NET MVC 3 project and then I use the Optimize images menu item to optimize the images. In order to use the extension, go to the extension manager and search the Image Optimizer in the online gallery.

The currently supported image types for optimization are PNG, GIF and JPEG. The optimization won’t affect the quality of the images, so you don’t need to be afraid to use it. You can optimize a single image file or an entire images folder. This is enabled by a new set of menu items that are being added when you use the right button click in the Solution Explorer. The extension adds the opportunity to use industry proven algorithms such as SmushIt and PunyPNG for optimizing the images in the solution. This extension can be very valuable when you are trying to optimize your ASP.NET application (whether it is Web Forms or One thing that caught my attention while watching the session that Mads Kristensen had in MIX11 was the Image Optimizer extension he is writing.
