Google’s New Web App Lets You ‘Squoosh’ Images Down To Smaller File Sizes
Get the smallest image file size without compromising quality or changing your workflow. You can upload Hi-Res photos faster, save tons of hard drive space, and experience a nicely high-quality images displaying without sacrificing load time can be a constant dilemma. Now, an experimental web app from Google called “Squoosh” offers a quick and easy way to get the best of both worlds. Showcased at the Chrome Dev Summit, Squoosh is a new online image conversion app. An open source tool which is essentially a simple browser-based image editor, and the focus is very much on speed. Not limited to only working only in Chrome — other browsers are also supported. While the conversion options are useful to many people, Squoosh is really an opportunity for Google to show off new web technologies. How it works It’s reasonably easy to use: you can drag and drop a picture of your selecting into the software, at which level, you can decide from compression requirements t...