Translucent

Turn any image into PNG file with a translucent pixel so that Twitter won't use JPEG for your image.

Try the app.

Why?

Twitter use JPEG to any opaque image uploaded regardless of original file format (which drives me nuts 😖), exception is PNG with transparency. This app will turn a single pixel on top left corner to 99.6% opacity (hardly any different from original) and export as PNG.

Please see below for sample result, you can see opaque image upload gets pretty rough JPEG artifacts. (original tweet is here)

Credit

I learned about Twitter's transparent image trick from @RavenWorks's twitimagefix. Thank you @matthewmcvickar for linking me to the project !

Electron App Archive

This app started as an electron app, but I was quickly asked by Jake "why not web?". To be honest, I never really opened electron app and always used the website to do image converting. For some memory, archive of the electron app is available here.

Dependency

In order to run this from source, you'll need electron installed. npm install -g electron

To start

cd [repo's directory]
npm install
electron .

To build .app file

cd [repo's directory]
electron-packager . translucent --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=0.36.1 --icon=translucent.icns