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Small Things Sorted

Shrink an image

Fewer pixels, a smaller file - or both, down to a size you name.

Stays on your device – The resizing happens in your browser. Your images are not uploaded.

Drop your files here

or

You can also paste with Ctrl+V.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Pick your images

    Drop them in or choose them. Several at once is fine.

  2. Set the dimensions

    A maximum width in pixels, or a percentage of the original.

  3. Choose quality or a target size

    Either set the quality yourself, or name a target size and let the tool find it.

  4. Check and download

    The preview shows what one image will look like. If it fits, run the rest.

What this is for

Two different reasons lead here. Either an image has more pixels than the job needs - a 12 megapixel photo in a blog post - or the file is too large for whatever has to accept it: a mail attachment limit, an application portal with its 2 MB, a government form.

For the second case there is the target size. It is a search rather than a setting: which quality brings a picture under 2 MB depends entirely on the picture - a plain blue sky and a busy market square need very different numbers. The tool encodes repeatedly and keeps the best quality that still fits.

Scaling down happens in halving steps rather than one jump. That sounds like a detail and is the visible difference: going from 4000 to 1200 pixels in a single step produces stair-stepped edges and shimmer in fine structure - roof tiles, text in a screenshot, a striped shirt.

Common questions

No. Everything happens in your browser. Your images never leave your device.

Because PNG has no quality setting: re-saving a photo as PNG barely makes it smaller, and getting smaller is why you are here. WebP files stay WebP.

Almost always. If even the lowest quality is not enough, the tool reduces the resolution as well and tells you. Only when that still fails do you get a message rather than a file that misses your limit.

Because it is scaled down in halving steps rather than one jump. Each step averages neighbouring pixels instead of simply dropping two out of three.

No. Redrawing discards all of it, including the location. For pictures headed to the web that is a gain; if you need the copyright field, set it again afterwards.

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