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RIOT – Radical Image Optimization Tool
A free program designed to efficiently
optimize images for the Web
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Good old RIOT turned 20

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RIOT has an easy to use interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size. The image optimizer is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users.

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What is RIOT ?

Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize.

It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.

It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.

RIOT can be integrated as plug-in in well known programs like The GIMP, IrfanView and XnView

RIOT Plugin

Integrate RIOT with your favorite application. IrfanView, GIMP, XnView are supported

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Learn

I have put together some articles to help you better understand the image optimization techniques

Contribute

You like RIOT and want to help ?

Then you can donate a little money if you use this program at work
or if you simply want to express your gratitude.

Main features

  • open many image types including rare/scientific types
  • save and optimize JPEG, WEBP, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface
  • automatic optimization selects the most suitable format and parameters
  • works in dual view: (original – optimized image) or single view (optimized image).
    automatic preview of resulting image
  • in-place compare function (alternativelly display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes)
  • compress files to desired filesize threshold
  • fast processing (all is done in memory);
    see instant results including resulting filesize
  • batch support (process multiple files at once)
  • transparency handling options
  • decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles).
    Unsupported metadata is removed
  • transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them)
  • common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip
  • basic image adjustments: brightness, contrast, gamma, invert
  • visually reduce number of unique colors for PNG and GIF images in order to reduce filesize
    (two quantization methods are available: Xiaolin Wu and NeuQuant neural net)
  • resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others)
  • out-of-the-box support for external PNG optimizers (optipng, pngout, etc)
  • the compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products, even higher.
  • images

Input image types

  • common bitmap images as well as Adobe Photoshop PSD files

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Recent Posts

  • RIOT 2024.1 released
  • RIOT 2023.12 released
  • 2023.9.1 fixes opening/saving images with the GIMP plugin
  • Version 2023.9 bugfix release
  • WebP fully supported in RIOT with the new version
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