imaginary VS imgproxy

WebP also frequently produces lower quality or blurry images: - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-going-blurry/ - https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/issues/240

One thing I didn't mention that AIO includes is a container called imaginary which is written in Go and processes images. I think this is mainly used here for generating image previews in NC.

Thanks. This is new to me. How is it different from https://github.com/h2non/imaginary?

There is also battle-tested imaginary tool [1], offering similar functionality and much more, also using libvips

[1] https://github.com/h2non/imaginary

Imaginary is a fast HTTP microservice written in Go allowing high-level image processing. Behind the scene, imaginary uses bimg and libvips libraries to perform the image manipulations.

Maybe atleast link to the project https://imgproxy.net/ next time? Your comment is basically an ad for your product. I am sure many clicked the link expecting there to be some image resizing proxy solution…

Another alternative for selfhosting is imgproxy.

Another alternative is to use ready-made components, namely imgproxy and Apache APISIX. I already combined them to resize images on-the-fly.

In my project[1], I convert all user-uploaded images to high-quality webp and store them like that. I discard the original files after the conversion. I use imgproxy[2] to further resize and convert them on the fly for actual display.

I don't do videos yet, but I'm kinda terrified of the idea of putting user-uploaded files through ffmpeg if/when I'll support them.

[1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

[2] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy

We use imgproxy which does 2->4 and all you need to do is change the URL on your site.

imgproxy interactive demo

You should also be using a variety of formats. Unless you need support for old browsers and transparency in the same image, don't use PNG. Stick with jpg, webp and avif. You can setup something like imgproxy to automatically resize and change format of images, or even fit into the space requirements you set.

If you look for something universal, you can try API for image optimization (e.g. imgproxy). However, the mechanism is different from build-time optimization.