Powertoys: Encode images to another format

[Afaren57]

Hello,

I took a look at the image resizer feature and found it really interesting, but I was wondering if it could also encode to another format. There are times when you have a bunch of png images that you want to convert to png, to have a lighter file, with or without a resize of the image. I think it could be interesting to add this option. It could simply be a drop list added when you create a new format size, with encode to : [Keep format, png, jpg ...]

[crutkas]

what other formats?

[Mr-Pingu]

For me PNG, TIFF -> JPG conversion would suffice.

[kenfrancisadams]

Agreed, I never need to go from JPG to PNG, but PNG to JPG would be super useful and a great time saver!

thanks

[crutkas]

@kenfrancisadams i can tell you i've had to do that due to a tool that only wanted PNGs even though it wasn't needed to be in PNG :(

[DennyAtkin]

I'd like to upvote this. Frequently I need to resize to get the file size down, and resizing a PNG often results in a file that's still too large (in bytes) for my purpose. It would be nice to have the option to always resize to JPG.

[Andrew-Koman]

Also, I think HEIC would be a nice addition too (not necessarily to but definetly from). I often get sent a lot of HEIC photos and some software doesn't support them. Having a dedicated app/feature for image conversion would be an amazing addition.

[Epiktetus]

I'll agree to this as well. The fallback encoder to JPEG is there, so it shouldn't be too hard to make a checkbox to force the fallback encoder instead.