How can I reduce the quality of an uploading image using Paperclip?

Question

I am running Ruby on Rails 3 and I would like to reduce the quality of an uploading image using the Paperclip plugin/gem. How can I do that?

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A

Answer 1

Except -quality, the -strip option of ImageMagick can remove all profile and other fluff from the image which may reduce more size

has_attached_file :photo,
  :styles => {
  :thumb => "100x100#" },
  :convert_options => {
  :thumb => "-quality 75 -strip" }