Compress JPG
Make your JPG photos smaller without noticing the difference.
Compress your JPG photos so they take up less space: to send them by email, upload them to a website or a form with a size limit, or free up storage. Choose the quality, we remove the photo’s hidden data, and you download lighter images, with no sign-up and no watermarks.
How to compress a JPG
- Select your JPG photos (up to 20 at once).
- Adjust the quality if you need to: the recommended one works for most photos.
- Click “Compress JPG”.
- Download the compressed photo, or a ZIP if you compressed several. You will see how much you saved.
How we make a JPG smaller
A JPG is already compressed, but cameras and phones usually save it at very high quality, with printing or editing in mind. We compress it again at the quality you choose and, on top of that:
- We save it as a progressive JPG, which appears in full straight away when it loads on a website and is usually a little smaller.
- We store colour information at half resolution, just as cameras themselves do: the eye can barely tell colour apart in such small details.
- We remove the metadata: the camera model, the date and the GPS location where the photo was taken. We keep the colour profile so the colours don’t change.
With phone or camera photos, the result is usually half the size or less. We never give you back a larger file: if your photo was already well optimised and we can’t make it smaller, you get it as it was, just without its metadata.
Which quality to choose
| Quality | When to use it |
|---|---|
| 65 | To make it as small as possible: thumbnails, chats or forms with very strict limits. It may show in smooth areas, such as a sky. |
| 75 (recommended) | The balance for almost everything: the difference from the original is very hard to see. |
| 80 to 92 | For photos you are going to print or keep editing. |
Compressing the same photo twice doesn’t make it much smaller, but it does lose quality: always compress from the original.
Need it even smaller?
If the photo is for a website, converting it to WebP usually makes it considerably smaller at the same visible quality. For logos or screenshots, it is better to compress the original PNG.
Limitations
- JPG compression always loses some information. At the recommended quality it doesn’t show, but it can’t be undone: keep the original if you will need it.
- Rotated phone photos are saved already straightened.
- Up to 20 photos at once, 20 MB per photo, 100 MB in total and 100 megapixels per photo.
Frequently asked questions
How much smaller does a JPG photo get?
It depends on how it was saved. Phone and camera photos usually end up half the size or less at the recommended quality. When it finishes, you will see exactly how much you saved.
Is the quality loss noticeable when compressing a JPG?
At the recommended quality (75), the difference from the original is very hard to see with the naked eye. Below 65 it starts to show in smooth areas, such as a sky or a wall.
Is the GPS location removed from my photos?
Yes. We remove all of the photo’s metadata, including the GPS location, the date and the camera model. We only keep the colour profile, which contains no personal data.
What happens if my photo was already compressed?
If we can’t make it smaller, you get it as it was, just without metadata. We never give you back a file larger than the one you uploaded.
Can I compress a photo to under 1 MB or 100 KB?
Usually yes: try the recommended quality and, if it is still too large, lower the quality. If it still doesn’t get there, the photo is very large in pixels and you should reduce its dimensions too.