Title: Original Image Option
Last modified: September 25, 2017

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# Original Image Option

 *  [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-image-option/)
 * Here’s a suggestion, unless an option for this already exists. (Perhaps I could
   filter or hook into one of the plugin functions?)
 * Provide an option to either not save the un-compressed original, or don’t compress
   the original, (or save both versions as the default option.)
 * Here is an example of where this might be desirable: I’m building a website for
   a photographer which will contain several _thousand_ photographs. Minimizing 
   the _total size of the media library_ is one important reason for using an image
   compression plugin.
 * The photographer already resizes his images to the maximum dimensions at which
   they can be displayed; he does not want them to be available any larger. He already
   optimizes the images in Photoshop before he uploads them. So the compression 
   savings are not huge, but still worthwhile when compounded over lots of images.
 * The WordPress “Large” image size of his photos is the same as the original.
 * But with this plugin, the _total aggregate file size for each photograph,_ including
   all sizes of each, is actually larger with your plugin because, besides the un-
   compressed original, it adds an extra compressed-original file (one extra file
   per photograph.) The size of that extra file is significantly larger than the
   savings on all of the other sizes combined.
 * Given the reSmush.it API, I don’t know whether this would be possible, but I 
   suggest that if it is possible, it would be helpful to some users.
 * (There is no way that, in its current form, I can make it do this, is there?

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 *  [maecia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maecia/)
 * (@maecia)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-image-option/#post-9783135)
 * Hi hommealone,
 * Sorry for this very late reply :/
    Thanks for your suggestion. We will think 
   about, and maybe it will be integrated in a future release. We’ll keep you in
   touch 🙂
 * In the meantime, do not hesitate to rate our plugin if you liked it 🙂
 * Best regards,
    Charles
 *  Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-image-option/#post-9783336)
 * Thanks [@maecia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maecia/) ,
 * I will not be rating it at this point, because I am not able to use it due to
   the issue I described above. It is not suitable for me in the current form for
   that reason. I wouldn’t give it a bad rating for being unsuitable, but without
   actually working with it I can’t determine it’s merit (though I suspect it works
   very well.)
 * Can you think of any way that I could perhaps over-ride the default functionality
   in order to either not save the un-compressed original, or don’t compress the
   original? Perhaps with a custom function over-ride, or even hacking the plugin
   code (bad practice in general, I know)?
 * Thanks!
 *  [Brent Wilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwbama/)
 * (@bwbama)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-image-option/#post-10093448)
 * I have same issue. This add-on doubles the size of storage needed for attachments.

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