Recommendation for compressing JPG files with ImageMagick

Question

I want to compress a JPG image file with ImageMagick but can\'t get much difference in size. By default the output size is bigger than the input. I don\'t know why, but afte

Answer 1

I added -adaptive-resize 60% to the suggested command, but with -quality 60%.

convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 60% -adaptive-resize 60% img_original.jpg img_resize.jpg

These were my results

• img_original.jpg = 13,913KB
• img_resized.jpg = 845KB

I'm not sure if that conversion destroys my image too much, but I honestly didn't think my conversion looked like crap. It was a wide angle panorama and I didn't care for meticulous obstruction.