Suppose you currently have a photo / picture you want to send to your friends via email or you want to upload the photo to your social networks. But unfortunately the photo file is quite large in size like 1-5MB.
If for example 1 file is not a problem, but what if you have dozens of photo files ? Not to mention that some social networking sites limit the max. allow photo size.
The larger the file size or the more files, the longer the download process takes. You yourself know if you want to include any attachments in an email, be it photo files, documents etc., first these files need to be uploaded.
How to Reduce Photo Size Without App
This article explains how reducing the size of a photo ( JPG or PNG ) or some other name compresses the size of the smaller photo WITHOUT reducing the quality of the photo itself.
To reduce the photo size, we will be using an online tool called TinyPNG , Kraken Image Optimizer , and Compressor.io .
1. Using TinyPNG
TinyPNG is one of the most popular and reliable online tools for compressing smaller size photo files without reducing the quality of the photo itself.
You can shrink 20 photos at a time with a maximum size of each photo of 5MB. How to compress photos with TinyPNG? Check out the steps below:
- First of all visit the TinyPNG.com site .
- Thenclick on the area that has been given an arrow to enter the image file you want to compress. You can also drag the image file into this area.
- Select the location where the file is located, and then select Open .
- Wait a few seconds / minutes for the process to compress . Whether this process takes a long time or not depends on the size or number of image files.
- If the compress process completed, the green bar will appear Completed . Click download to download the image file which has been reduced in size. Suppose you compress more than one image file, you can download it at a time by clicking the green Download All button.
2. Using Kraken Image Optimizer
Kraken Image Optimizer is also an online tool which is no less popular than TinyPNG.
You can compress dozens of files at once with a size slightly smaller than that offered by TinyPNG, which is only 1MB per photo. To know how to compress photos using this online tool, you can see the steps below:
- First visit to the Kraken.io site.
- On the main website page, click the Try the Free Web Interface button .
- Click on the area that has received an arrow to insert / download an image file that you want to reduce in size. You can also drag the image file into this area.
- Select the location where the file is located, and then select Open .
- Wait for the compress process until it is finished. The duration of this process depends on the size of your image file or the number of image files. When done, click Download File . If there is more than one image file, you can directly choose Download all Kraked files .
- You will be redirected to the preview page of the reduced size image file. Finally, you just have to click Save image as ... to save it.
3. Using Compressor.io
Compressor.io is also a popular online image compression tool. Even Compressor.io claims that they can reduce the size of photos or images by up to 99%! But of course, the results of each user who uses this tool may vary depending on the type of photo or image file.
- First open the Compressor.io website
- Then download the photos or images that you compress by clicking on Select a file .
- Wait for the download process to complete.
- The compression process is complete. As you can see, the image file which was originally 382.16KB to 88.65KB or shrunk to 77% of its original size. Then click Upload your folder to upload compressed image files.
4.How to Reduce photo Size on Android
- Please visit the following link first .
- Click the Download icon as indicated by an arrow.
- After that choose Allow
- Choose Files to select the photo or image you want to reduce in size.
- Wait for the download and compress process until it is finished.
- If the process is complete, just select Download it as the arrow indicates.
Comparison Results
You can see the results of a comparison of the quality of the photos, before and after compression. If you look closely, there is almost no difference between the quality of the photo before and after it is compressed.