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Getting an image under 200 KB
200 KB leaves room for a sharp portrait, a readable photo of a certificate or a product image for a listing.
We stop at the first setting that fits, so an image that only needs a little squeezing keeps most of its resolution and detail.
Tips
- iPhone photos (HEIC) work too. HEIC photos are saved as JPEG.
- We remove camera metadata such as GPS location. It saves space and keeps where you took the photo private.
- Every file comes back in the format you uploaded: a PNG stays a PNG, a WebP a WebP.
Questions
Why is my result noticeably under 200 KB instead of right at it?
The steps are fixed pairs of size and quality, such as 2200 pixels at quality 78 and 2000 at quality 75, with nothing in between. If the gentler step comes out over 200,000 bytes, you get the next one down, and that one can land well below the limit.
Apart from pixels, what is taken out of a photo compressed to 200 KB?
The resized JPEG is written fresh from the pixels alone, so the camera's metadata is not carried over: the camera model, the date and time taken, the GPS location and the small preview image cameras store inside that metadata. The picture itself is what remains.
Does a large phone photo go straight to resizing for 200 KB?
Yes, when 200 KB is less than half the original. Re-saving a JPEG without touching its pixels only trims metadata and coding, a few percent, so for a 2 MB photo, which has to lose 90% of its size, we skip that pass and start on the resize steps.
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