lepton VS ImageMagick

JPEG XL can losslessy transcode JPEG into a smaller format. JPEG2000 (or WebP or anything but Lepton[0]) didn't offer that. Besides, we have gif and png for approximately the same space. gif still isn't gone. Displacement isn't necessary for a new format to become useful.

[0] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton

We also use https://github.com/dropbox/lepton to save disk storage. It give 20% saving in our experience.

It may not be directly related to your question, but Dropbox has developed a great open source software called Lepton. It is able to compress JPEGs losslessly and saves on average about 22% of storage space. The files are not readable after compression without decompression, but since your focus seems to be on archiving anyway, it might be handy. And for larger collections of high-resolution images, it can actually save a decent amount of storage space.

Just wondering, is there a "lossless" conversion from PNG/JPEG/etc to AVIF? Kinda like Lepton[1] but just re-compressing without further loss of details.

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton

To tie all this together, we made an org profile for our GitHub organization page. There are some great examples of these, like Microsoft and PayPal. For Fastly's, we wanted something friendly and human so we used Imagemagick to create a montage of all the avatars of the Fastly team members who have contributed to the open source projects in our org:

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ImageMagick is the main tool and can do most conversions and image operations. For example to resize a whole folder of photos and convert to WebP you can do this:

Lack of open governance explains the fork in 2002. [0] The github commit history shows it's still a largely one-person-band. [1] The problems with this include a lack of succession planning, a lack of ability to scale bandwidth, and a narrower pool of ideas. The documentation website is really out-of-date as it mentions using a Borland compiler.

Alternatives to IM:

- https://www.libvips.org

- http://www.graphicsmagick.org (IM fork)

0. https://marc.info/?l=imagemagick-developer&m=104777007831767...

1. https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick

You can rotate it using https://imagemagick.org