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Image & Photo

Make this image smaller.

Choose the file size you need. OutMonkey handles the technical bits in your browser.

Useful to know

Four things worth knowing.

What it is

What compression actually does.

Compression removes or rewrites data so the file takes fewer bytes. The useful target is the destination limit, not the smallest number you can force out of it.

Where it stops

Smaller has a cost.

More compression eventually shows up as softness, banding, blockiness, ringing or damaged audio and motion.

Check the ugly bits.

Open the finished image at normal size and check crop, sharpness, dimensions and file size.

Stop at the real limit.

If a form says 5 MB, aim comfortably below 5 MB and stop. There is no prize for turning a good file into a 400 KB one.