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pngquant vs Substance Designer

A side-by-side look at pngquant and Substance Designer. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

pngquant

pngquant

Photos & Graphics

pngquant is an open source image optimization utility for lossy compression of PNG files. It reduces file sizes by converting images to a more efficient 8-bit PNG format while preserving transparency and retaining good visual quality.

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Substance Designer

Substance Designer

Photos & Graphics

Substance Designer is a texture creation tool that allows artists to quickly build complex and customized materials. It uses a node-based workflow to create a wide range of textures like metals, fabrics, nature elements and more for use in 3D rendering and game development.

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