📸 Image Compressor

A simple Python script to compress and downscale images for use on websites. It uses the Pillow library to resize images while preserving aspect ratio and image quality.

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🔧 Features

• Automatically resizes images that are too wide
• Compresses images to reduce file size
• Lets users customize:
  • 📏 Maximum width (in pixels)
  • 📉 Compression quality (1–100)
• Stores a log of processed files in a images.json file

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🚀 Usage

1. Install dependencies

pip install Pillow

2. Run the script

python imageCompressor.py

3. Follow the prompts:

Enter input folder path (default: ./uncompressed/):
Enter output folder path (default: ./compresssed/):
Enter quality (1-100, default: 85):
Enter max width in pixels (default: 1000):

You can press Enter to accept the default value for each.

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📂 Example File Structure

project/
├── imageCompressor.py
├── images.json
├── uncompressed/
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   └── image2.png
└── compresssed/
    ├── image1.jpg
    └── image2.png

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📄 Notes

• The images.json file tracks which images have been compressed.
• If the JSON is corrupted or empty, it will be automatically reinitialized.