JPEG Compressor
This free online JPEG compressor converts your lossless PNGs or high quality JPEGs into lossy JPEGs with the smallest filesize possible.
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Select a file
For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
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Drag & Drop
Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.
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Paste image URL
Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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Paste Base64 Data URI
Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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Paste image data
Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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Use this Photoshop JSX-Script
Use the script to send an image from Photoshop to compress-or-die.
Copy it to the Photoshop Scripts folder. Overwrite what’s there if you’re asked.
Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS...\Presets\Scripts
Mac OS X: Applications/Photoshop CS.../Presets/Scripts
Restart Photoshop.
Allowed file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG (max. 8 MiB)
Features
- State-Of-The-Art JPEG compression algorithm
- Separated settings for luminance and chrominance
- Individual influence on the quantization tables
- Color subsampling settings
- Selective Blur preprocessing
- Metadata (EXIF, IPTC & ICC) Removal
- Automatic resolution conversion to inches for better application support
- Clean color space conversion from CMYK
- Converts to standard color profile sRGB-IEC61966-2.1
- Lossless auto-rotation based on EXIF meta data
- Alpha channel support
- Selective quality support
- Fuzzy whitespace trimming
- Selection of quantization tables
- Cropping to 8 pixel grid
- For the technical enthusiats: Uses imagemagick, mozjpeg, exiftran, exiftool, puppeteer and a lot of own code.
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