Compress an image

Make photos small enough to email, attach to a form or put on a website. The compression runs in this tab, so your pictures never leave your device.

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Add a file to start
Your file never leaves this device. How that works

How to compress an image

STEP 1

Add your images

Drop them on the box above or pick them from your files. Add as many as you like, nothing is sent when you do this.

STEP 2

Choose the quality

Balanced suits most photos. Drag the slider down if you need a smaller file, and set a maximum width to shrink big camera photos further.

STEP 3

Save the results

Check the before-and-after size for each image, then save the ones you want. Your originals are never changed.

Why phone photos are so large

A modern phone camera writes 12 to 50 megapixels into every shot, at a quality setting meant for printing rather than for a web form. A single photo can easily be 5 MB when the form you are filling in wants 200 KB.

The quickest win is almost always the width. Bringing a 4000-pixel-wide photo down to 1600 pixels removes far more weight than the quality slider does, and nobody looking at it on a screen will see the difference.

WebP produces noticeably smaller files than JPG at the same visual quality and every current browser supports it. If whatever you are uploading to insists on a JPG, keep the format as JPG and lean on the width and quality settings instead.

Questions

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. The work happens inside this tab, on your own machine. Open your browser's network tab while you use the tool, there is no request carrying your file.

Is there a file size limit?

None set by us. Very large files are limited only by your device's memory, and we warn you before that becomes a problem.

Do I need an account?

No, and there is no daily limit either. There is nothing to sign up for.

Which formats can I use?

JPG, PNG and WebP go in, and you can write any of the three back out. HEIC photos from an iPhone work in Safari; on other browsers, convert them first.

Will it change my original photo?

No. The original file on your device is never touched, you get a new file to save.

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