Drop a photo and get it back under 500KB, automatically. Free and private.
500KB turns up on visa applications, bank forms and many web upload fields. It is generous enough that most phone photos survive with no visible loss at all.
Forms almost never explain how to meet their limit. They reject the upload, show a red message and leave you to work it out. This page exists so you can drop the file in and get one that fits.
It compresses in steps. First it lowers the JPG quality gradually, checking the resulting size after each attempt. If quality alone is not enough, it starts reducing the image's dimensions as well, then tries again.
That order matters. Dropping quality straight to the floor produces the blocky, smeared look everyone recognises. Reducing dimensions first keeps the image looking clean, because fewer pixels stored well beats many pixels stored badly.
The final size is shown next to the file before you download, so you can confirm it fits.
Crop before you compress. If the form only needs your face or a document, trimming away the surroundings means the remaining detail gets all the available file size.
Start from the original rather than a screenshot. Screenshotting a photo and compressing that stacks two rounds of quality loss on top of each other.
Avoid images with a lot of fine texture — grass, crowds, patterned fabric — when a small target is required. Compression struggles most with busy detail, and a plain background compresses far more gracefully.
The images people compress for forms are usually identity documents, photographs of themselves, signatures or certificates. Those should not be sent to an unknown server just to change a file size.
Everything here runs inside your browser. The image is read from your device, compressed in memory and handed straight back. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and no account is needed.
Drop your image above. It is automatically compressed until it fits under 500KB, then you download it. No settings to work out.
For most photos, yes. The tool reduces quality and dimensions gradually until the target is met, so it takes the least damaging route available. Very small targets on a very detailed photo will visibly soften it — that is unavoidable at any tool.
JPG, PNG and WebP all work. The result is always a JPG, since that is what form uploads expect and what compresses best for photographs.
Rarely. Most photos reach 500KB with quality settings high enough that the difference is invisible.