JPEG Image Compressor

This JPEG image compressor shrinks your images and photos to the smallest file size and best quality possible.

Made in Germany
EU GDPR compliant

For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
Drag & Drop
Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.
Paste image URL
Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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.
Paste image data
Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
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
Gamma correction to 2.2
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 custom code.

Why should I use this JPEG compressor?

If you work professionally with images and photos, they should be displayed with the best possible quality and be as small as possible.

However, all other compressors hide the numerous adjustment possibilities (or its developers do not know the possibilities of the JPEG algorithm) that are necessary to get the best out of the images. Either they just compress each image with the same settings or they state that they use clever algorithms to create the optimal image.

But what is the optimal image?
How would they know what your subjective quality requirements are for the image?
Do you want to compress a hero image or just any very low down on your website?
Are you running a first-world stock photo agency site where you want the images to be of excellent quality, or a third-world emergency site where mobile speed is of the essence?
Do you want to archive your images in high quality for later editing, or just send a meme/snapshot/screenshot via WhatsApp or email?

These are just a few examples of how many possible compression scenarios and use cases there are. Getting the most out of an image is therefore only possible with a preview of the result with maximum freedom in the settings.

ArticleFinally understanding JPEG

If you always wanted to know how the JPEG compression works under the hood I want to recommend this article to you. It was important to me to write an article that is reasonable for every level of understanding.

Furthermore it contains 7 valuable tricks to reduce the file size of your JPEGs by exploiting the technical functionality of the JPEG compression algorithm.

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ArticleThe nasty red JPG compression artifacts

During an exchange with an illustrator about another article, he asked me why the JPEG format is so bad at handling the color red. As an explanation, I have already run across several variants. So I simply answered the questions with the variant that seemed most plausible to me.

But was that really the right answer? And if we knew the right answer.... then can't we do something about it?

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