Image Optimizer for Visual Studio

Download this extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace or get the CI build

Uses industry standard tools to optimize any JPEG, PNG and Gifs - including animated Gifs. It can do both lossy and lossless optimization.

Features

Adds a right-click menu to any folder and image in Solution Explorer that let's you optimize all images in that folder.

• Optimize PNG, JPG, SVG, and GIF (including animated GIFS) images
• Works on single images files or entire folders
• Resize images easily
• Copy any image as base64 dataURI to clipboard

Optimize images

Simply right-click any file or folder containing images and click one of the image optimization buttons.

You can also right-click a folder to optimize all images inside it.

Best quality

If you chose best quality optimization, the tool will do its optimizations without changing the quality of the image.

Best compression

If you decide to sacrifice just a small amount of image quality (which in most cases is unnoticeable to the human eye), you will be able to save up to 90% of the initial file weight. Lossy optimization will give you outstanding results with just a fraction of image quality loss.

Image resize

You can resize images by using the Resize Image dialog. You get to it by right-clicking any single image (jpg, gif, and png only).

Output window

The Output Window shows the detailed output from the optimization process and progress is displayed in the status bar.

Performance

Optimizing an image can easily take several seconds which feels slow. This extension parallelizes the workload on each CPU core available on the machine. This speeds up the optimization significantly.

API for extenders

Any extension can call the commands provided in the Image Optimizer extension to optimize any image.

public void OptimizeImage(string filePath)
{
	try
	{
		var DTE = (DTE2)Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(DTE));
		Command command = DTE.Commands.Item("ImageOptimizer.OptimizeLossless");

		if (command != null && command.IsAvailable)
		{
			DTE.Commands.Raise(command.Guid, command.ID, filePath, null);
		}
	}
	catch (Exception ex)
	{
		// Image Optimizer not installed
	}
}

The commands are:

• ImageOptimizer.OptimizeLossless - Optimize for best quality
• ImageOptimizer.OptimizeLossy - Optimize for best compression

How can I help?

If you enjoy using the extension, please give it a ★★★★★ rating on the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Should you encounter bugs or if you have feature requests, head on over to the GitHub repo to open an issue if one doesn't already exist.

Pull requests are also very welcome, since I can't always get around to fixing all bugs myself. This is a personal passion project, so my time is limited.

Another way to help out is to sponsor me on GitHub.