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Caesium is a cross-platform image compression software aimed at helping photographers, bloggers, webmasters, businesses or casual users at storing, sending and sharing digital pictures. Based on libcaesium.

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

C++ 92.41% Shell 0.75% CMake 5.14% C 1.69%

caesium-image-compressor's Introduction

Caesium - Image Compressor (Cs-133)

v2.0.0-alpha.5 - Copyright © Matteo Paonessa, 2021. All Rights Reserved.

⚠️ WARNING This is a very early stage version! Don't use on important files without a backup and expect some major changes. ⚠️

Caesium is an image compression software aimed at helping photographers, bloggers, webmasters, businesses or casual users at storing, sending and sharing digital pictures.

REQUIREMENTS

libcaesium

TESTED PLATFORMS

Windows 10 64bit
MacOS X Big Sur (v11.4)

INSTALLATION

You can find binaries for Windows and OS X in the releases page

For linux you must compile the source by yourself.

BUILD FROM SOURCE

You need the Qt5 SDK installed on your platform.
Compile libcaesium. Please refer to its own documentation for detailed instructions for your platform. IMPORTANT: since alpha.5 this project uses a unreleased version of libcaesium, made in Rust. You can still find the binaries in the release files.
Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor.git. If it doesn't work somehow, you can download the latest snapshot here.
Open CMakeLists.txt on your favorite editor and compile it.