Shrink a heavy photo down to a sensible size for email or the web. The compressor re-encodes at an optimised quality that keeps the picture looking sharp while trimming most of the weight.
Trimming weight without spoiling the picture
A single high-resolution photograph can weigh several megabytes — fine on your hard drive, but a burden in an email, a gallery page, or a marketplace upload. Compression re-encodes the image at a carefully chosen quality that sheds most of that weight while keeping the picture looking sharp and true. The detail it discards lives in tones and textures the eye glosses over at ordinary viewing sizes.
This is the right finishing step for flat photographic images. Because the output is JPG, it is not the tool for a cut-out you want to keep see-through — for that, hold onto the transparent PNG from the background remover instead, and compress only the photos that will sit on a solid page.
A photographer's order of operations
For the lightest possible file, attend to dimensions before quality. A photo that is too large in pixels will still be heavy even after compression, so resizing first does much of the work.
- Scale the picture down with the photo resizer to the dimensions you actually need.
- Compress the resized photo here to cut the remaining weight.
- Bundle a finished set into one file with photo to PDF for easy delivery.
Followed in that order, you get pictures that load fast and travel well, with no visible compromise at the sizes people view them — every step free and watermark-free.