That’s crazy!īetter Images solves this by converting the image to RGB mode before any resizing or compression occurs.
WordPress is not that great at handling this so it will create multiple variants of the image in different sizes, each of them weighing in at the same size in mega byte as the original full size image. Sometimes you will get an image that’s exported to be used in print and therefore it uses the CMYK color mode. This will not only save you a lot of disk space, but also make your website load much faster. In contrast a JPG image can be up to 20 times lighter in file size.īetter Images can convert uploaded PNG image to JPG for you. However it is not at all suitable for photographs that will be used on a website due to its heavy size. The file format PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a popular image format because of its non destructive nature. Since we wouldn’t want that we leave the color space profile untouched. Removing the EXIF data however also removes the color space profile which will result in an image that looks different form the original. Therefore we remove the EXIF data and shave off up to 30 kb from the file size. This data is in the majority of time not used or needed on a website.
EXIF data is information about shutter speed, exposure compensation, aperture speed, what metering system, if a flash was used, ISO number, date and time the image was taken, white balance, GPS coordinates and so on. Removes EXIF data but keeps color space profileĪlmost all images taken with a camera or downloaded from a stock photo library has EXIF data embedded in them. The plugin applies the perfect amount of sharpening to make your images pop and look at their best. We have tweaked the sharpening level to avoid over sharpening artifacts. WordPress does not do that and that’s why we end up with blurry images. Apps like Photoshop, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo and the like will compensate this by applying som degree of sharpening to make images look better. Sharpens the image to make it more appealing and crispĮvery time we resize an image it becomes blurry. In the process we also get rid of the word “scaled” in the filename. What Better Images does is resizing the original full size image to the maximum size of 2560 pixels replacing the default scaled variant. This image is never used on the website however and resizing images to pixel perfect sizes is a thing of the past due to the advent of responsive image handling. The real original full size image though is not deleted but kept on the server in case one would want to resize to a different size or regenerate thumbnails. This variant serves as the new full size image on the website. The solution that was implemented is to create a new size variant of 2560 pixels with the addition of the word “scaled” in the filename. In version 5.3 WordPress introduced handling of big images. And here’s the nitty-gritty of what is actually happening in the background: Resizes and compresses the original full resolution image Adds a max height of 768 pixels to medium_large size variantĪnd one bonus feature: It displays all image sizes in the editing screen.Replaces special characters and non english letters in the filename.Checks if the image already exist to avoid duplicates.Removes EXIF data but keeps color space profile.Sharpens the image to make it more appealing and crisp.Resizes and compresses the original full resolution image.Here’s everything that Better Images will do for you every time you upload an image: Regeneration will be available in a upcoming Pro-version. If you benefit from this plugin please consider writing a review! That would mean a lot to us.ĭisclaimer: With this plugin activated you can’t regenerate images via other plugins or WP-CLI.
And it will also resize the original full resolution image to save space. Just upload your image into the media library and the plugin will produce an image that is both better looking and smaller in size. Tired of resizing, compressing, converting, optimizing and exporting images over and over again? Better Images is a plugin that automagically does this hard work for you.