Compress image to 500 KB
Reduce JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC images to 500 KB or less, right in your browser.
Target500 KB or less
Processed locally in your browser. Your files never leave your device.
Now choose your image.
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Social media, Requirements and Print work one image at a time. With several images: Compress, Convert or Resize.
Create
Photos and PDFs together? Make them one document.
More with these files
How small does it need to be?
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Transparent areas become white in this format.
Maximum size
Each image keeps its proportions and is never enlarged. Leave one side empty for no limit.
Order
Drag ⠿ or use the arrows.
Page size
Speed
Repeat
If the images have different shapes
How should they be joined?
Done.
Too much for one ZIP here: download the files one by one.
Processed locally in your browser.
What do you want to do with this PDF?
Or change this PDF
Done on your device. To make a PDF smaller, use Compress PDF.
PDF check
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File
Can’t check
Check it yourself before sending.
Status
No background (transparent)
Checking whether the file can be smaller…
What The File Work checked
Also with this image
What do you need it for?
Also:
How small does it need to be?
Both previews are zoomed in the same amount, so you can compare the detail.
Convert to
There’s no other format worth converting this image to.
How big should it be?
Keeps the proportions.
More options
Where are you posting?
What are you making?
More print options
Details
Based on the image’s real pixels. Results also depend on viewing distance, printer and paper.
- Print size
- Image
- PPI
They ask for
File
Your image
Needs fixing
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Check it yourself before sending.
The File Work can’t prepare an image for these requirements
Good to know
Cropping isn’t possible here: your image is smaller than the required size in one direction, and The File Work doesn’t enlarge images.
The borders stay transparent, like the rest of your image.
A better file type for this
What can’t be fully met
Details
What The File Work will do
I know what I need
Done.
File name:
Processed locally in your browser.
What The File Work changed
- Original
- The File Work
- Difference
- Quality
Match upload requirements
Where are the requirements?
Choose the PDF that contains the upload instructions.
It’s read on your device and never uploaded.
Only the link is sent, so The File Work’s page reader can fetch that page. Your image never leaves your device.
Read from:
They ask for
File
Can’t check
Check it yourself before sending.
Now choose the image you need to prepare.
Done.
Processed locally in your browser.
Private by designCompressed on your device, in your browser. Your image is not uploaded, and there’s no account to create.
How it works
- Upload your image.
- The target is already set to 500 KB. Click Compress.
- Download the best result that fits in 500 KB.
Websites, email and everyday uploads
500 KB is a comfortable size for websites, email attachments and general uploads. A phone photo usually comes out smaller in pixels too, but still large enough for screens and email.
Supported formats
JPG / JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC / HEIF photos (AVIF and GIF open too). HEIC photos are saved as JPG, which every site accepts. PNG has no quality setting, so a PNG can only get smaller by losing pixels; for a much smaller file, JPG usually looks better.
If 500 KB can’t be reached
The File Work lowers the quality first and then the dimensions, within safe limits: it won’t go below a sensible quality or shrink the image to a few pixels. If 500 KB would need that, it tells you instead of giving you a ruined image. When getting under 500 KB visibly lowers the quality, it shows you both versions so you can choose.
Questions
Can I compress an image to exactly 500 KB?
Never over 500 KB, and usually just under it, because it keeps the best quality that fits.
Will image quality change?
Only as much as needed. If good quality won’t fit, the image also gets smaller in pixels, and the result tells you what changed.
Does it work with HEIC?
Yes. iPhone photos open directly and are saved as JPG.
Is my image uploaded?
No. It’s compressed in your browser, on your device.
What happens if 500 KB can’t be reached?
You’ll be told before you download, instead of getting a ruined image. Try a larger limit, or crop the image first.