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pngquant: Compress a specific PNG with the number of colors reduced to 64.

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$ pngquant ${64} ${filename-png}

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This command uses a tool called pngquant to compress and reduce the colors of a PNG image file.

Here is a breakdown of the command:

${64}: This is a placeholder for the maximum number of colors you want to use in the output image. It indicates that you need to replace this placeholder with an actual value when using the command. For example, if you want to limit the image to 64 colors, you would replace ${64} with 64.
${filename-png}: This is another placeholder for the input filename. Similar to the previous placeholder, you need to replace it with the actual name of the PNG file you want to compress.

When you replace the placeholders with actual values, the command could look like this:

pngquant 64 example.png

In this example, the command would compress the image file example.png using pngquant, applying a 64-color limit to the output.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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