Guides

Short, practical explanations of how JPEG compression actually works — and how to get smaller files without wrecking your images.

• How to Compress an Image to Exactly 200KB (or Any Size)
  A repeatable way to hit a hard file size limit without wrecking the image, instead of guessing at quality sliders.
• Why Your Photo Is Too Large to Upload (and How to Fix It)
  The four usual reasons an upload gets rejected, and the fastest fix for each one.

Open the compressor