Drop your images and each one comes back at or below 500 KB, at the best quality that fits. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you ask for it.
Drop images here
Or click to choose them. Several at once is fine, and you can drop more later.
Everything re-runs as you change it
JPEG cannot be transparent, so whatever was see-through gets this colour.
Optional. A picture is shrunk on its own anyway when quality alone cannot reach the target, but capping it here usually looks better than letting the quality drop that far.
More than one image comes back as a single .zip.
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An encoder takes a quality and answers with a size, never the other way round. So the page tries a quality, looks at the result and halves what is left to search, about nine times per image. Each row says which quality it settled on.
A large photo pushed towards a small target runs out of quality before it runs out of pixels. Below 30% the search stops lowering quality and starts shrinking the picture instead, which looks better at the same size. A row that still could not get there says so rather than pretending.
Enough for a full-screen photo that still sends quickly by email or messenger, and a frequent cap on forums and in support ticket systems.
Almost any photo fits into 500 KB at full HD without visible loss, so this target rarely has to shrink anything.
Yes. Drop them all, each one is compressed on its own and they download together as a .zip.
No. A file that is already small enough is kept exactly as it was, since encoding it again could only make it worse or bigger.
No. Every attempt at the target size is encoded by your own browser, so the picture never leaves your device.
An encoder takes a quality and answers with a size, never the other way round. The page tries a quality, looks at the result and halves what is left to search, about nine times per image.
Below 30% quality the search stops lowering quality and shrinks the picture instead, which looks better at the same size. A result that still cannot get there says so.
