Image Dither - aesthetically compress images to save storage

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Disclaimer

Is this project open source? Yes
Is this project completely free? Yes
Is this project vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No

When enabled, process images on paste or drop to save up to 99% storage space

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Available via BRAT plugin, with Github URL:

Features:

  • toggle enable/disable

  • live preview

  • Algorithm options: Floyd-Steinberg, Blue Noise, Ordered (Bayer), Threshold, Grayscale

  • save custom presets

  • transparent pngs OK

Choose from several algorithms

And adjust on the fly

Original (2.8MB)

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image450×674 70.3 KB

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image1132×1000 165 KB

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image1134×1000 161 KB

image
image1254×550 58.1 KB

Custom presets

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image1238×1000 279 KB

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image1350×1000 254 KB

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image954×1000 127 KB

Coming soon: keyboard accessibility

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Neat! I love that retro dithered look.

Out of curiosity I ran the example image thru the Apple Shortcuts shortcut I use for sharing images to Obsidian and got 396 KB in color.

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@CawlinTeffid nice! didn’t know about that tool - that’s pretty good compression

In addition to taking up less space, I’m a huge fan of the dithered aesthetic. The lowest I got the sample image to was about 160KB with a pleasing look. [Low Tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) ftw

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Love it!

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It resizes to 1080 pixels wide and saves as JPEG with a relatively high quality level (the slider annoyingly isn’t labeled, so I don’t know the number).

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IMG_16521206×2457 247 KB