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Is there a tool which can achive good picture copression without loosing the image quality, and which produced optimal images for websites and can compress images in batches?

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By the way, your question reads a bit subjectively. try rewording your title to explain what you're really looking for, like "high compression with low loss of quality" or "lossless image compression" or "supports a command line interface". – lfaraone Oct 27 '10 at 2:17

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I know pngcrush Install pngcrush and optipng Install optipng.

There is also pngquant Install pngquant and pngnq Install pngnq but those are lossy when the original was in truecolor.

For photos you probably want to convert to JPEG instead.

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how did you link those packages @janC – myusuf3 Oct 27 '10 at 18:47
There is a link to “How to post links that install software via apt?” in the sidebar at the right of this page (under “Visit Meta”). – JanC Oct 27 '10 at 19:02
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You should take a look into the new WebP format and the tool provided by Google. Is not very useful right now, but according to Google it has 40% size reduction over jpeg, without additional quality loss.

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1585577

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The examples that Google gives only prove that WebP can make files smaller when the quality is worse (duh!). There is currently no proof that it can make smaller files at the same quality when compared to JPEG (actually, most tests say it's worse than JPEG). JPEG2000 can make smaller files at the same quality, but it shares one problem with WebP: most browsers don't support it out of the box, so it's useless for use on websites... – JanC Oct 27 '10 at 21:21

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