Compress-Or-Die

JPG Compressor

This free online JPG compressor converts your lossless PNGs or high quality JPGs into lossy JPGs with the smallest filesize possible.

  • State-Of-The-Art JPEG compression algorithm
  • Separated settings for luminance and chrominance
  • Color subsampling settings
  • Selective Blur preprocessing
  • Metadata (EXIF, IPTC & ICC) Removal
  • 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
  • Whitespace trimming
  • Selection of quantization tables
  • Cropping to 8 pixel grid

The big image compression tool comparison

There are a lot of articles about online image compression tools in the net, most of them are very superficial. Usually they end with a simple: "It generates smaller pictures, so it's got to be better."

Learn why such statements are most of the time meaningless, understand the technical background, and find out which tool you should use as of today.

Read the article "The big image compression tool comparison"

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Upload possibilities

  1. Select a file by clicking here For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
  2. Drag your image file onto this website.
    You can do this anytime.
  3. Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website.
    You can do this also on the image processing page. Does work in Chrome, Firefox, IE Edge. In Firefox you have to click onto the webpage before.
  4. Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website.
    You can do this also on the image processing page. Does work in Chrome, Firefox, IE Edge. In Firefox you have to click onto the webpage before.
  5. Paste an image from your clipboard into this website.
    You can do this also on the image processing page. Does work in Chrome, Firefox, IE Edge. In Firefox you have to click onto the webpage before.
  6. Use this Photoshop JSX-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: JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG (max. 16 MiB)
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